You're not comprehending
All the Republican candidate has to do is run on a solid conservative message mixed in with some libertarian goals, and there wouldn't be a libertarian candidate to piss and moan about.
The Republicans did this in 2006 over the online poker ban. Yeah, yeah I know you don't believe people should gamble because it's evil and they'll be struck down by God, but it highlighted the GOP's hypocrisy on limited gov't. Libertarians saw that and the GOP paid the price at the polls.
and libertarians serve as the left’s fifth columnist
When have you seen the libertarian candidate get tons of news coverage and the MSM breathlessly reporting on how the GOP is losing it's principles and the libertarian should win? Please by all means post links of this occurring.
within the conservative movement as they war against American values and culture with their radically leftist views on homosexuality and immigration and abortion and national defense, etc.
They're NOT promoting any of this. C'mon now Ansell. Libertarians believe that gov't should get out of social issues and let local communities deal with them, and I agree 100%. They support rampant immigration but you fail to realize that there would be no welfare state or anchor baby status or enormous taxes and regulations on businesses that are forcing them to hire illegals in the first place. More than likely illegals would go through the proper channels to become legal citizens, and while I oppose that too and support a border fence at least their stand on immigration is still much tougher than most of the GOP.
You just pointed out how libertarians are fifth columnists, all the conservatives have to do to get the lib vote is too give up conservatism. No thanks.
The libers like the conservatives economics but they want them to abandon the rest of conservatism, that makes them liberal tools.