Time to break out the ice skates?

I had the notion of explaining the Freeway in Hell metaphor sometime soon, but instead I got to reading LeftI, and Eli links to a recent speech by Texan Republican Congressman Ron Paul, who was the Libertarian Presidential candidate in 1988.

Here I have been marveling at how, without any of my beliefs changing, I am becoming such a conservative, in the sense that I value preserving at least the way we did things in America, for the past few generations, rather than any more of these half-baked innovations our alleged Congress and President want to ram through right now, and therefore I want to preserve independent courts, Social Security, etc etc.

I don't listen to Libertarians usually because I am afraid they will take my first agreement as an excuse to slash social services. But here is Rep. Paul saying so many true and sober things. My shock is complete. Apparently we are at the point where Texan Republicans are too liberal for the alleged "mainstream."

I hope I wake up from this dream before I turn completely into Edmund Burke.