Why is it that you quote a line about Badnarik presenting "small-government, free markets solutions..." with an attack on various other issues? It seems clear to me that this thread is rife with fear. A fear that is very very easily down-played because of how insignificant the libertarian party is, but a fear that is based in the fact that many members here feel a conflict. The conflict is that many of us vote republican because we can't stand big government, because we see it going socialist year after year, and because we see that the republicans don't stop it, they only grow the government less than the democrats do.
Because small government isn't really what the LP is all about, at least not these days. The LP's progressively poor performance shows that most people can also see through the veneer of the LP. I would accuse them of treachery if they weren't so pitiful, laughable, and harmless.