“LOL, that’s nice, but the tea party as a whole is what conservative politics usually is, Christians and conservative, not libertarian.”
Here is the problem. There aren’t enough of the “Christians and conservative” type you like the best, to win. Therefore coalitions are needed in order to win.
And demographics are not moving in our direction either.
You form a coalition with libertarians, you win, you both get your views aired, and the marketplace of ideas decide.
You insist on no coalition, you lose. It is just that clear cut and simple.
We lose if we become liberals and adopt the left’s social destruction of America, which would also destroy our goals to return to the conservative, small government before the left and libertarians started rolling up 50 years of success on the very issues that you and Rand Paul are telling me that we need to unite with them on.
You are talking about adopting a libertarian political platform which is in opposition to conservatism and is two thirds left wing.
It is better to educate voters in conservatism and fight the left, rather than join it.