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At some point, fairly recently ( before GW) I felt the way you do, and was seriously considering the Liberatarian party, and started to look into it.

I saw some things, which were appealing: limited gov., fiscal responsibility, but unfortunately part of their platform (and I actually wrote to the head of the party asking some questions, and got a reply) is a regidity of the opposition to any war, no matter what, that the US shouldn't get involved. I also noticed some overly socially liberal stands.

I know some Libertarians who subscibe to the "good" part, but reject the rest, and some who are Libertarians precisely because they agree with the "bad"(IMO) part.

But their overall platform includes both.

So I crossed them off my list of a party to seriously consider. However, I still agree with the limited government, fiscal and personal responsiblity, local gov. etc.

I think, after all is said and done, the Republicans are closest to that, they just need a little reforming and giving them a chance with a larger majority, because I think they were sliding away from this platform, just trying to survive in a heavily Democrat congress and constituency, but all that is changing.

I wish I could be optimistic. I see the Republicans increasingly controlled by the Religious Right. I heard one local Republican politco talk about the need to put Jesus and the Bible back into the schools and stop the march toward international atheism, what ever the hell that is. There are libertarian oriented Republicans like Ron Paul, but the RR considers him a fruitcake. I think we ned to look beyond the Rep and Dems to something new. Not sure what that will be like at the end of the day, but the old left/right paradigm looks increasingly old and tired, and I might add, increasingly irrelevant.