[steve-b]

What are you babbling about? I pulled those quotes right from the core of his argument -- reject the assertions stated in these quotes, and his whole argument collapses like a house of cards.

[Exnihilo]

No steve, his "entire argument" doesn't because it isn't a house of cards. Some of his assertions about Libertarians are totally isolated and not dependant on any of his other statements. Asserting that X is the image and Z is the reality doesn't depend upon his political ideology in any way though I cannot say how much his ideology may influence his thinking on such matters.