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There is much to like about the Libertarian agenda. There is also much that disturbs me. Unfortunately, I never get the sense that Libertarians are willing to compromise and shift any positions. I need to take them as they are (too liberal on drugs and prostitution, too isolationist on foreign affairs, too loose on immigrantion) or I have to walk on by.

I'd like to shift to the Libertarian side (because the GOP has lost me) but there's too much there that I cannot support.

I'd like to shift to the Libertarian side (because the GOP has lost me) but there's too much there that I cannot support.

I consider myself a conservative libertarian.

Laissez-faire on most things, but strong on border control, drugs, crime in general.

Federal government should concern itself with natioanl security, war, foreign policy. Everything else should be the purview of the states.

There is also much that disturbs me

Let me guess: Child porn, drugs, open borders, abortion? Those are all bunk arguments.

Libertarians vehemently oppose child porn just as much as everybody does, and on legal porn it's the parent's responsibility, not the government.

Kids use to buy cocaine and heroin in drugstores at the turn of the 20th Century; did they turn out to be drug addicts?

Yeah libertarians are for open borders, they oppose a fence, and I disagree with them here. But they still oppose anchor babies, welfare handouts, and gov't economic policies that force businesses to hire illegals. With a purely free market Americans would be filling these jobs, not illegals. There would be no incentive for illegals to come here.

And more libertarians are pro-life than pro-abortion, and even the pro-abortion libertarians still oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. The LP has a chapter for pro-life libertarians. Besides, it's hypocritical to call libertarians pro-abortion when at least a good third of all Republicans are pro-abortion.