what does the right REALLY think of Roberts?

[RJLipkin at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/26/2005 11:15:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
nebraskalawprof at yahoo.com writes:

By the way, most social liberals who consider themselves  libertarian do not 
support gun rights, school choice, low taxes, freedom  of contract and other 
economic liberties, etc. So even if I am not a 100%  libertarian, I score 
higher on the libertarian scale than do many  liberals who like to think of 
themselves as lovers of liberty. Indeed, I would  go a long way toward abolishing the 
Regulatory Welfare State, much further  than most self-identified 
libertarians.


        Whether by Rick or by  "social liberals" picking and choosing only 
their favorite libertarian rights  impoverishes libertarian theory.  Moreover, 
libertarians, courageously,  raise the evil of government intrusion into areas 
of human freedom. Social  conservatism makes no bones about permitting 
governmental regulation of vast  areas of human conduct. The fundamental attraction 
of libertarianism is that  except for certain obvious restrictions--to ensure 
the freedom of  others-- of freedom, libertarians recoil at thinking of the 
libertarian  project as a "scale" according to which anyone can claim libertarian 
credentials  just so long as he or she rejects state regulation in some areas 
of  life. To advocate "abolishing the Regulatory Welfare State" does not,  in 
my view, a libertarian make, especially when the individual claiming  
libertarian status embraces "the Regulatory Personal Morality State" as do many  
social and religious conservatives.
 
Bobby
 

Robert Justin  Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of  Law
Delaware
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