Let’s face it. Many libertarians and many conservatives maintain caricatures of each other in their minds.
Be that as it may, and considering the very title of this thread 'Libertarians vs. Conservatives'; we see one thing very clear:
You can either be a lib or a conservative. But you can't be both. And for the many many libertarians who infest Free Republic claiming to be conservative; they just lie.
I was at a YAF convention where we were debating our platform and in the resolution on the draft, we agreed with the entire resolution, but got into a disagreement over six words — “except in time of declared war.” The people who wanted to take it out got attacked by those who wanted to leave it in as “libertarians”, and someone raised a “point of personal privilege”, objecting to being so labelled.