Agree. I should have made that clear. The serious libertarians who wish to get their ideals implimented make a lot of good. The Republican Liberty Caucus endorsed my guy for Governor (Pat O'Malley), in the GOP primary because he stood for things like home-schooling, abolishing the state gas tax, repealing Illinois FIRST, and making certain vaccinations volunteerary. I was happy to have the RLC in my corner and many of us constitutionalist Republicans are now pretty P'Oed since the country-club establishment Republican won the Illinois primary.
My beef was, of course, with the leaders of the "big L" Libertarian Party, Harry Browne and his gang of fringe candidates. The LP will never been taken seriously until they're out. Hopefully it will happen in time for 2004.
I used to be a member of the party, until about two years ago. At that time I was very disaffected (still am) with Harry Browne's ideology and his dominance of the party. He happens to live near me and I've met him on a few occasions. I respect his tenacity and conviction, but I think he's misguided. I think the Libertarian Party leaders would rather send out cute press releases and be an anti-establishment gadfly rather than win elections. Otherwise, they might start choosing their battles and winning where they can and working for change once they're in office.