Because you dont want libertarians on your team. You label them. So when they leave because conservatives call them all the names that have been bandied about on this thread, the conservative candidates dont get enough support, and the liberal one wins. But at least the losing party is pure, or something.
You say you dont want it as small as libertarian, but not as big as we have now, so define what size you want, and define how what you want isnt where libertarians are taking it.
“Because you dont want libertarians on your team.”
I SAID we should cooperate with them on economic issues. See my first post on this thread.
And here is the size of government I want:
one that handles economics in a basically Libertarian way, except for bigger funding of the military and money to enforce laws against crimes Libertarians think are freedoms;
one which maintains military bases and embassies in strategic places around the world, keeps a vigorous presence in every country, and handles enemy states without apology;
and one that enforces public morality in a way that protects the most vulnerable of our citizens. This would include enforcing laws against porn, prostitution, public broadcast profanity, abortion, human trafficking, public nudity, bestiality, sodomy, bigamy, statutory rape, polygamy, drug abuse, and drug trafficking.