Common Ground

This is the beginning of an editorial by Arthur Brooks, director of the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank (the Repository of All Knowledge says it leans toward Neoconservatism).  Most of the editorial is behind a paywall at the Wall Street Journal, but the beginning is thought-provoking.

The president’s proposed new budget has three noteworthy characteristics: continuing unfunded entitlements to the middle class, runaway deficits to be repaid in the undefined future, and immense tax increases on the entrepreneurial class. Many commentators have complained about the damage this budget would do to our national prosperity. Less has been said about the effect it will have on something far more important: our national character.

There is a tremendous amount of research on the links between success, character and the ability to sacrifice. It all reaches the same conclusion: People who cannot defer current gratification tend to fail, and sacrifice itself is part of entrepreneurial success.

The first paragraph sounds Libertarian, but what about the rest?  Is this the Moral Libertarianism that Rothbard talks about?  Is it Libertarians and Conservatives finding common ground?  Is it something else?