First of all, Billy, since you seem to think you're some authority on libertarians, you'll know there's a distinction between big-L Libertarians, and little-l libertarians. Notice which one I call myself.
Secondly, I long ago gave up trying to educate or reason with people here who are anti-libertarian. They are not open to reason and I'm not going to spend 80 hours a week trying to change their mind.
Agree. I should have made that clear. The serious libertarians who wish to get their ideals implimented make a lot of good. The Republican Liberty Caucus endorsed my guy for Governor (Pat O'Malley), in the GOP primary because he stood for things like home-schooling, abolishing the state gas tax, repealing Illinois FIRST, and making certain vaccinations volunteerary. I was happy to have the RLC in my corner and many of us constitutionalist Republicans are now pretty P'Oed since the country-club establishment Republican won the Illinois primary.
My beef was, of course, with the leaders of the "big L" Libertarian Party, Harry Browne and his gang of fringe candidates. The LP will never been taken seriously until they're out. Hopefully it will happen in time for 2004.