Could be true, but I'm an old man and I have never met a libertarian who was a democrat. Maybe it's different where you live.
I worded my comment wrong about the RP being libertarian. What I meant to say was that libertarians belonged to the Republican Party before there was a Libertarian Party. The LP has been a one man show and even now more libertarians are RP than LP. Just the same, Republicans were smeared as libertines during the FDR administration. Republicans opposed marijuana prohibition in 1937 and were raked over the coals for that by the socialists.
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They actually belonged to both the dems and puppys prior to the LP. But were in very small numbers. Libertarians have a long history of rejecting both parties that predates the founding of the LP.
The LP has been a one man show and even now more libertarians are RP than LP.
What do you mean that the LP has been a one man show? Who is this LP guru you speak of? Or did you just make that up because the idea sounded good to you?
Likewise, on what basis do you claim the Republican Party has more libertarians than the LP. I know that surveys done in the past by various non-LP libertarian think tanks and independent publications found the vast majority of members, subscribers and supporters to be politically non-affiliated. A very credible national survey published in the Washington Post, titled "Core Beliefs Recast Party Lines" on October 4, 1998 placed libertarians as one of the 5 main groupings with in the Democratic Party. Of course they were the smallest grouping at only 9%, but on closer examination of the strong criteria used to identify them, it looks to me as though at least a third of them were probably real libertarians. If that is the case, then by my assessment, there are about twice as many libertarian democrats as their are libertarian republicans.
Also if we look at average libertarian vote percentages nation wide at 2.5% for non campaigning "paper candidates" for state legislatures in 3 way races, as well as the size of local Libertarian Party organizations as compared to Republican Party organizations a 40 to one ratio appears to hold. Now if you think libertarians make up even 2% of the freepers, you are dreaming. And I assure you they are better represented here than in the Republican Party. There are not more libertarians in the Republican Party than in the Libertarian Party.