Libertarians are a naive group of pie-in-sky-the-way-it-ought-to-be-head-in-the-sanders with NO political viability whatsoever, fortunately. I asked Ron Paul once if the U.S. should have been involved in NATO in the '50s. He hemmed and hawed and finally said no. Stalin would have loved this guy...
If current conservative leadership would assure true conservatives and libertarians that they are going to limit government and spend less, there would be no issue.
Why don't some conservatives have a problem with movements away from the free market and increases in non-defense spending?
Don't get me wrong, I am actually voting for GWB, I just don't like this animosity towards the libertarian right that has usually voted GOP and had a wonder relationship as a group with President Ronald Reagan.
Whatever Badnarik's VP said about losing the election for GWB will turn a lot of libertarians away from him. It certainly made dislike the official LP more than ever. It doesn't change the fact that I am libertarian minded.