[Aevery_Freeman]

Free Republic has always had a sizable contingency of libertarian thinkers most of whom are too independent to form a cohesive group.

It is difficult to form a political party with loners.

Please remember, small-l libertarian thought is sine qua non to America's founders and those that built this formerly great nation.

[Drew68]

Free Republic has always had a sizable contingency of libertarian thinkers most of whom are too independent to form a cohesive group.

We don't need a Libertarian party. What we need are for Libertarians to co-opt the now bloated, big-government, spendthrift Republican party.

God Bless Rand Paul. Wish we had 99 more just like him.

[JohnBrowdie]

Please remember, small-l libertarian thought is sine qua non to America's founders and those that built this formerly great nation.

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That is a fashionable perversion of the founders' core philosophy that sometimes rears its self-absorbed head, but is quite historically deranged.