re: #667 shortshrift

So wouldn’t that make you a libertarian (again small l, not to be confused with Ron Paul ) ? Where do you stand on the death penalty?

I’ve always been opposed to the death penalty, as perhaps the ultimate intrusion of government.

Nowadays that would seem to make me a libertarian by default, wouldn’t it? But wasn’t there a time, before the Religious Right, when basic conservatism was first and foremost about personal freedom? Or am I just wearing rose-colored glasses? :)