Fair enough. I really don't know enough about Texas Libertarians to comment. Sorry, just thought that it was a blanket indictment of all small "l", libertarianism.
I posted this on a defunct thread. It really applies here also:
I have two college-aged sons, both of whom are registered Libertarian, and wrote in for Ron Paul (no, Im not in a battleground state)
I am also a poll worker, and noticed that the vast majority of young male voters that came to vote yesterday were unaffiliated.
It seems that the Republican Party could do something over the next 4-8 years to capture these independent (in the literal sense) and individualistic voters. If my sons are any example, they are well to the right of the Republicans on fiscal issues. They also hate political correctness, and their college profs drive them crazy. Think South Park Republican. There ARE young people who did not drink the Obama Kool-aid. They just didnt like McCain either.