If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

- Ronald Reagan.

(Via Glenn Reynolds.)

This is now:

So it is now the federal government's role to micro-manage baseball and to prevent a single Florida woman who is trapped in a living hell from dying with dignity. We're getting to the point when conservatism has become a political philosophy that believes that government - at the most distant level - has the right to intervene in almost anything to achieve the right solution. Today's conservatism is becoming yesterday's liberalism.

-- Andrew Sullivan

Of course, there's still plenty for me to disagree with on both sides. Conservatives who disagree with me will always call me a liberal, while liberals who disagree will call me a conservative. It's their call; not mine.

The Reagan quote appeared in Pejman Yousfezadeh's TCS piece which wondered whether the "marriage" between libertarians and conservatives can be saved.

It may take a Hillary, now and then.