@Very nice. Great. I agree with you that having idiotic spokesmen such as Limbaugh and Hannity does not serve the Republican party very well. I also agree with you that it doesn’t serve the Republicans in Congress very well to take their cues from people of such obvious mental limitations. It is shameful and ridiculous that no one in that party has the courage or character to stand up and describe those “talkers” for what they are– intellectual midgets. And I agree with you, lastly, that classical conservatism deserves a better defense– that it is a serious, perspective and an intellectual force to be contended with, and that anyone who derides it and confidently presumes to have all of the answers in the world or to simply have a superior ideology on the basis of the people’s verdict in the last election or any election for that matter is laughably ignorant. Very laughably ignorant. I caution you, however, not to think that the unpopular actions taken by those who held office in the past few years are all inherently wrong because of their unpopularity. It seems that you are trying, by labeling yourself a libertarian, to excise yourself from those presumed sins, and while I do not doubt that your ideological position is genuine, I caution you against conflating intrinsic fault with popular disdain. Non-libertarian conservatism too, or whatever you wish to call it, also deserves a proper defense, and is not an ideology that can only be held by a moron or disseminated by a purveyor of hot air.