Copying Huck out of courtesy.
Huck strikes me as a “Paulite”, or maybe even more radical liberatarian than Ron Paul, bordering on anarchism.
His threads criticizing the construction of the Constitution are a huge insight into his orientation.
In some ways you are correct. I wouldn't say I am libertarian, though. I flirted with that stuff when I was younger, but that's not really my thought process. I would say I am radically anti-federalism.
In short, I think federalism is a flop. Federalism tries to have it both ways. It wants to dance with the Devil and not get burned, and in the end, I don't think it succeeded.
But that's academic. As I say on my profile, when you are as extreme as I am, it's impossible not to compromise. Which simply means that in the real world, I have to set some of my notions aside and deal with the world as I find it, in a pragmatic way. Otherwise I'd just never engage in the process at all.
So while some folks look for a "true" conservative because they don't want to compromise on principle, for me, EVERY political choice is a compromise on principle, because everyone in politics wants bigger government than I do.
e.g., I’ve never voted for Ron Paul. But I have voted for George W Bush, and John McCain, and Chris Christie.