I think that you underestimate the number of libertarians in the Tea Party movement. Yeah, they claim to support the constitution, but it is their interpretation of the constitution, not ours.
I explained what is going on in education in WA state, I did the same on the WA state board on FreeRepublic and I could not get a single response from anyone who was opposed to the unionization of the potential drop outs. They simply don’t care whether education standards are lowered. It’s not important to them. Some of them actually supported it because they think that increased union membership is a good thing.
What is this "libertarian... interpretation of the constitution"? They aren't your enemies, Eva.
Libertarians don't want to put conservatives in jail for their views like the statists do. Libertarians don't want their tax money going for abortion or gays or stupid foreign aid or research in monkey sex any more than you do!
*Think* about people's motivations. Then you can decide who your allies are. You don't have to agree with your allies 100%, but they can enable you to do more than you ever could with your own forces alone.
The libertarians can help us get big government off all our backs and push FedGov back into its enumerated powers under the Constitution.
That solves so many problems! How can you have the "gay agenda" at the Federal level if they have no MONEY or PEOPLE to promote it? How can the FedGov fund abortion if there is NO MONEY for it?
If we conservatives can get some help from our libertarian cousins, we ALL can get big government off our back. That's a starting point to many good things.
Flame away.
good post
libertarians need to stop using our conventions and site for them to push their liberal social issues.