This was a gay-marriage crowd. You could tell by the early applause. I don’t think she was expecting that, but she made an excellent point about the overgrown socialist government, the unnecessary departments, etc.
As conservatives, we have some overlap with libertarians. She was asking them “Why do you pick the issues where you overlap with the socialists and thereby give them strength?”
We have overlaps because we’re both right wing schools of thought. The only difference is that they think the constitution alone can function effectively in today’s world, whereas we believe the constitution can only function if Americans return to being moral and just people, which they are clearly not right now thanks to decades of liberal indoctrination. So yes, I think the government should prevent infanticide, it should uphold CENTURIES of traditional Western customs, and it shouldn’t let wolves amass outside our door in the interest of ‘peace’.
You could tell 20% of the crowd there were looking for gay marriage. It was obvious. Coulter did make a good point that everyone has exactly the same right to marry one person of the opposite sex, over the age of consent. And she’s right about how cowardly a lot of these so-called libertarians are. They do emphasize the positions they and progressives agree on, yet if they explained their position on employment discrimination, they would be smeared and attacked worse than conservatives. The majority of libertarians it seems, don’t care at all about the economic side, and just yearn for a more socially liberal society than even the liberals are offering.