and so would I.....The problem is that both liberals and social(ist) conservatives want the federal government to regulate our daily lives and existance...the only difference is what side of the middle you fall in...nobody has the right to tell me what to do, as long as I do not infringe on anther persons civil rights... it is a real simple concept, one that the framers of our country knew and understood, but now we have socialists on both the left and on the right....as I stated, the constitution, as written, applied literally, would piss off both liberals and conservatives....this is why I no longer call myself conservative...I am a strict constitutionalist...and I dare any social conservative or liberal to challenge me
Yet for some being a ‘strict Constitutionalist’ means having the right to denounce the Constitution as we have seen from the confederate democrats of the past. Most libertarians today as well would deny people the right to representation on issue after issue as well and claim that they are supporting liberty giving people no defense from pushers, pimps, and other means of corruption that would make them slaves in their own homes.
The conservative position though is not to have the federal government regulate everyone’s lives as you claim but to allow the people to have the right to representation on issues that threaten their liberty such as the issues created by pushers, pimps and other forms of moral deviants that threaten their communities.