[Katya]

The difference I see(at least in discussions) is that most of these Libertarians are quite willing to make some pragmatic choices to win...like fielding libertarian leaning republicans. Hello....they're willing to do more than shout at each other....they're willing to move!!! Sucess would entail working at the micro level in townships etc. within a state that already leans in our direction.

[BlueLancer]

"...these Libertarians are quite willing to make some pragmatic choices to win...like fielding libertarian leaning republicans."

If that's the case, then I don't think that you will be able to find 20,000. Most of the members of the Libertarian Party (and, thus, I do differentiate them from lower-case "l" libertarians), as reflected by most Libertarian advocates on FreeRepublic, are all-or-nothing kind of people. If you don't agree with them on every little aspect of their agenda .. and that means down to the dotting of the "i's" and the crossing of the "t's" .. then you're a statist, a jack-booted thug, or a Republicrat/Demopublican.

There is no give to be gotten; half-measures are like no measures at all. To a Libertarian of this ilk, a Bush administration is the same as a Gore administration. Two steps forward and one step back is viewed as a retreat.

Theoretically, it sounds good. But, then, theoretically, so does communism. It's just that it is unworkable in the world of imperfect humans.