A Slow Race Car

I've been told that a 'moderate conservative' is as oxymoronic as a slow race car. Here's what kind of moderate conservative I am. It bears repeating.

The kind of moderate conservative I am would be simply this: I'm a fiscal conservative, believing in small government and generally against the welfare state, but I'm not a social conservative. I don't believe in political activism which values a particular lifestyle or degrades another. My own personal beliefs about lifestyles (for lack of a better term) is indeed conservative, but that's not something I want my Americans to be politicizing.

My think tank is the Manhattan Institute. Of all of them out there, I find most in common with what the guys at Manhattan say, including John McWhorter and Kay Hymowitz.