re: #205 lostlakehiker

Well, then, I have not exhausted the list of conservative positions that are pro-liberty. I’ve just given a sampling.

You haven’t shown how any of them are actually pro-liberty. You’ve just asserted they are.

And all it appears to be is that you’re defining liberty differently than those you’re arguing with. Big whoop.

I think there’s plenty of ‘pro-liberty’ ‘conservative’ positions. Not the anti-union ones; there’s nothing ‘conservative’ about being anti-union. Unions are old, and even Reagan clearly understood the vital need for them. Union-busting is a reactionary, not a conservative trait.

David Cameron, in England, just gave a very good conservative defense of gay marriage. The right to privacy is something that conservatives— not social conservatives— have often defended, which is a very pro-liberty stance.

It all depends on what you mean by liberty, and what you mean by conservative. The modern GOP: not so much defenders of liberty, unless your definition of it is very, very odd.

Classical conservatives? Often the defenders of liberty.