re: #79 Sharmuta

What makes you think they’re not the same people? What’s the difference between a “compassionate conservative” increasing social spending and a democrat doing the same thing?

Good point.

And that label always has implied that a libertarian Republican is somehow not compassionate.

Taxpayers straddled with a huge and growing national debt and an unattended entitlements crisis need some compassion. They get none - just more obligations to fund.