As one who likes to see my ideas yield results, I wouldn't call that acting on rational principle. I'd call that being unable to cope with the give and take of the political arena and being more interested in winning sophomoric word games than being held responsible for the logical consequences of one's electoral behavior.
I have come to conclude that the Liberatrian Party is nothing but a collection of the pseudo intellectual utopian wierdoes of the right. Like the socialists who are the bane of the Democrat Party, Libertarians are famously inflexible, they jeer at the intellectual capacity of those who dare disagree with them and they are convinced that if only the rest of the fools in the world would turn power over to them, they could build what would be be close to an earthly paradise.
And that is why I finally grew up and became a Republican.