Safire, a [[Republican]] and self-described practitioner of "libertarian-conservatism",<ref>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1926424,00.html</ref> was most widely known among conservatives as the "[[token conservative]]" columnist for the [[New York Times]], mainly because he was the only regular columnist who was right-of-center.<ref>http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/william_safire/index.html</ref> | Safire, a [[Republican]] and self-described practitioner of "libertarian-conservatism",<ref>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1926424,00.html</ref> was most widely known among conservatives as the "[[token conservative]]" columnist for the [[New York Times]], mainly because he was the only regular columnist who was right-of-center.<ref>http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/william_safire/index.html</ref> |