Republicans want the libertarian vote but ridicule libertarian philosophy. The honeymoon is over. Divorce is in the future.
That's the same thing I keep trying to tell the nanny-statists around here.
But, in their hubris, they seem to delude themselves into believing that the entirety of the conservative movement consists of social authoritarians like themselves, and they can simply laugh off those of us who believe in true individual liberty (economic as well as social) come Election Day.
Social authoritarians always believe they run the show.
They're in for a rude awakening!