Yes, some real wackos here.
James Buchanan Walter Block Richard M. Ebeling David Friedman Milton Friedman Friedrich Hayek Robert Higgs Ludwig von Mises Murray N. Rothbard Thomas Sowell Mark Thornton Richard Timberlake Walter Williams Ron Paul (R-Texas) Lao-tzu John Locke Algernon Sidney Adam Smith Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson James Otis Thomas Paine George Mason John Stuart Mill Richard Cobden John Bright Frederic Bastiat Benjamin Tucker Lysander Spooner Herbert Spencer Franz Oppenheimer Albert Jay Nock H.L. Mencken Garett Garrett Henry Hazlitt John T. Flynn Frank Chodorov Friedrich Hayek Ludwig von Mises Rose Wilder Lane Isabel Paterson Ayn Rand Leonard Read F.A. Harper Willis Stone Robert LeFevre
About half of the folks on your list died before the LP was founded, more than half were non-Americans, and quite a number are known not to be members of the Libertarian Party. The question you were discussing related to the wacko quotient of the LP, therefore the vast majority of them are irrelevant to the question. I know two of the people on that list personally, Dr. Buchanan and David Friedman, neither one of them are likely to spit on someone, but I think David is the only one of the two who is in the LP.
The spit that can be spat is not the true spit....
Yeah, Lao-tzu was a Libertarian. In Chinese, the character for Libertarian is also the character for a monkey's bottom....
Nonsense. He wasn't one of the spitters.
"Whosoever, therefore, out of a state of Nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into society to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth. And thus, that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of majority, to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world." -- John Locke
Even she despised libertarians, describing them as "hippies, who subordinate reason to whims."
So how does James LeFevre fit all that on his driver's license?