The arguments, full of years of FR threads, are all about the differences between the two, ignoring that there is plenty in common, and to point out that Ron Paul was not a legitimate POTUS candidate since neither he nor libertarianism adheres to the three-legs of the Reagan conservative stool. That does NOT mean they are against conservatism.
I provide an example ......
Ron Paul ... and Rand is way closer to conservatism than his father ... intervened in the race for Governor of Virginia because he saw Terry McAWFUL and the dems bankroll a fake libertarian candidate, Robert Sarvis, and he knew Ken Cuccinelli to be the true champion of smaller and limited government ...
Libertarians and Conservatives are WAY better natural allies than the USA and Russia ... and they were able to join together to beat Hitler. Can't we all just get along ...
The arguments are about libertarians trying to end social conservatism.
The libertarians are fighting to destroy conservatism and America, and American Christianity, they are a radical component of the radical left.
I disagree with their political goals myself, and won't be embracing them any time soon, and I sure don't think that we are part of a team.