There are as many flavors of libertarians as there are types of conservatives. There are Christian libertarians, objectivist libertarians, constituional libertarians, dopertarians, Kill-the-Fed libertarians, official Libertarians and libertine libertarians to name a few.
As one that has offered critical comment to those espousing that tradition over the years, I can say you might find many you hold common ground with if you are a typical conservative.
The rationalism of an ideologue libertarian is a good part of the seperation and it often is expressed in athesitic rhetoric — but there are pricipled beleivers here that describe themselves as libertarian. Likewise, there are agnostic or other flavors of conservatives that I can likewise find common ground with if their morality falls into the “Enduring Moral Order” class and stays away from situational ethics.
I've spent the last few years researching the various types of L/libertarianism, and based on that research, will spend the rest of my life EXPOSING the fraudulent movement.
As one that has offered critical comment to those espousing that tradition over the years, I can say you might find many you hold common ground with if you are a typical conservative.
On social issues, next to none. On economic issues, while on the surface it appears that conservatives and L/libertarians (I'll drop the little l, they're all Big L Libertarians whether they want to admit it or not) might agree on certain things, it's the FOUNDATION of the free market economy where we disagree (something about Ludwig Von Mises being a Humanist makes me feel a bit uneasy).
The rationalism of an ideologue libertarian is a good part of the seperation and it often is expressed in athesitic rhetoric — but there are pricipled beleivers here that describe themselves as libertarian.
I'll stick with the quote from Thomas A. Droleskey in his article entitled "Showing Libertarianisms True Biases:
"Those who embrace libertarianism, in other words, believe that there is no ultimate authority to which men and their civil society must answer other than themselves and the words of their own constitutions and laws. Men are "free," and there should be as few restrictions on "freedom" as possible."
http://www.christorchaos.com/ShowingLibertarianismsTrueBiases.html