Conservatives and Libertarians are very different creatures philosophically. They are socially liberal, but fiscally conservative.
The fault with their philosophy is that fiscal policy cannot be separated from social policy. In a nation that has no moral conception of stealing, murder and lying, there is no foundation upon which an economic system can operate.
Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were not only contemporaries but good personal friends, and their philosophies are intertwined and synergistic. You can't pick one and eschew the other. Such a system does not work, it declines until collapse.
This is supposed to be a conservative website, but i'm seeing much evidence that it is slowly being eroded into a Libertarian one.
As they say, bad money drives out good.
Libertarians hold that stealing and murder are violations of rights against which it is government's proper role to act - ditto for at least the kind of lying that constitutes fraud.
Nope. They are not even fiscally conservative. Every single dope-peddling liberal supporting legalization will brag and boast about the added tax revenue that legal pot brings.
When reminded that more taxes leads to more spending which leads to bigger government - they say nothing. What can they say?
Except that we conservatives should be shot in a duel and have our asses kicked.