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heresyarch's Contra Mundum on Saturday, June 20, 2009 11:42:20 PM
Modern republicans are liberals with the exception of Ron Paul. For Republicans who love to invoke the name of Ronald Reagan, they sure don't resemble him. How many modern republicans would hold to this statement by Reagan:
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."
Contrast this to Lindsey Graham's statement:
We're not going to build [the Republican Party] around libertarian ideas,” he told his audience. “[Ron Paul] is not the leader of this Party,” he emphasized.
Lindsey Graham On the Republican Party