[ansel12]

He also referred to himself as a libertarian.

Elaborate on that, was he leaving the GOP at that time, was he going to adopt the Libertarian Party Platform?

[firebrand]

I don't recall anything about his leaving the GOP. I used "libertarian" with a lower-case L. But his own remarks about being a small-L libertarian appear throughout Craig Shirley's book Rendezvous with Destiny. I'm not going to read all 600 pages again to give you the page numbers, but trust me, the cites are there.