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So when has the LP ever been in a position to get any of its proposed legislation even debated on the floor much less written into law?

Never. Odd isn't it? The Socialist Party got much of its platform passed by using the Democratic Party as a proxy. The Communist Party USA did the same. So did Greens. Only very rarely did any of them flat out criticize or run against Democrats. That format worked great for the far left, didn't it?

But the Libertarian party has taken another tack. Rather than drag the GOP to its position, rather than launch get out the vote drives for good GOP candidates as the CPUSA was notoriously excellent at for the Democratic Party in NYC, the LP spends most of its time attacking the GOP and running candidates against the GOP. It has even been caught taking money from the DNC and openly allied itself with Greens in Ohio

In other words, I don't believe the LP is for real. Yes, I believe there are some, perhaps many in it who are sincere. But I don't think the movement as a whole is.

Yeah, we should really really love the bi-partisan, my friends across the isle kabuki theater, boob bait for conservatives GOP that disliked Goldwater, that disliked Reagan, even Reagan said so in Robernt Kovak’s Prince of Darkness, which is one of the best books on Reagan’s fight against the usual RINO, big gove loving GOP

The Socialist Party got much of its platform passed by using the Democratic Party as a proxy. The Communist Party USA did the same. So did Greens. Only very rarely did any of them flat out criticize or run against Democrats. That format worked great for the far left, didn't it?
But the Libertarian party has taken another tack. Rather than drag the GOP to its position, rather than launch get out the vote drives for good GOP candidates as the CPUSA was notoriously excellent at for the Democratic Party in NYC, the LP spends most of its time attacking the GOP and running candidates against the GOP. It has even been caught taking money from the DNC and openly allied itself with Greens in Ohio
In other words, I don't believe the LP is for real. Yes, I believe there are some, perhaps many in it who are sincere. But I don't think the movement as a whole is.

You are right about the LP. I've detested them for years, despite their obvious good sense on small government. But good sense on a single issue isn't good enough, especially when your every action is contrary to good sense on how to advance your issue in the real world. Aiding and abetting democrats -- which is what the LP does, to the extent that it does anything at all -- is not good sense in politics. Not for supposed conservatives.

The day I come to the conclusion Beck is pushing the LP and pushing people to vote LP is the day I stop watching his broadcasts.