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I like the construction of your ideas, your parallelisms were spot on. Very intelligent.
I don't understand why a classical liberal would want a conservative Republican Party. This is probably because I am an Australian and don't know much about American politics. I would have thought that a conservative Republican Party would have little regard for classical liberal principles and would tend to favour big government, foreign military adventures etc.
Winton,
I understand your confusion. I get a little confused about it all myself, so that's why I've been writing posts about "What is a Conservative?"
Prior to the turn of the 20th century, people who held the Declaration of Independence dear, and fought to keep the government limited, were considered "liberals." But the progressive movement hi-jacked the name to make it easier to sell their government programs.
Our country really began to change under the Woodrow Wilson administration, but by the time of FDR and the New Deal, the opposition (the original liberals) became known as "conservatives." This was a very brief history of it all.
The Republican Party is supposedly "conservative," but for the past 100 years they've been nothing but progressive-lite. So the 2 words, Republican and conservative, are not synonymous.
The "old right," as it's now called, consisted of many types of conservatives and libertarians. It's only today that they seem so far apart.