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I do want to say overall the platform is good, though I take issue with a few things (ending the WOD etc). Despite the abortion issue, they sound like a good group.

I just wish they would take a stand and not be neutral on questions of morality. Conservatives traditionally are not neutral on issues of ethics and morality. Then again, this is not a conservative group, but a libertarian group. I have a lot to support when it comes to libertarians. My main sticking point with libertarians is just the morality issue.

My main sticking point with libertarians is just the morality issue.

State Issue.

The Federal Government was not constituted for the purpose of instituting Morality among the Sovereign States; it was constituted for the mutual defense of the Sovereign States.

It is not the Governor of the States; it is their Servant.

I really dont see the drug war as a morality issue. Their is very little difference than someone smoking a joint in one's home or drinking a beer. There is very little difference in someone doing (many) prescription drugs in their home or cocaine. The problem is not the doing of drugs on private property, it is when you 1) go out in public 2) get behind the wheel of a car 3) operate heavy machinery--but libertarians are in agreement on this. In many ways, alcohol is worse than cocaine. In every single way, alcohol is worse than marijuana. Legalize these 2 drugs and 4/5ths of the drug war goes away immediately. Just marijuana alone makes up for over half. Unless you want to outlaw alcohol also, you are being a hypocrite on the issue. Marijuna was made illegal by the FDR administration, cocaine by woodrow wilson--two pillars of 'conservatism' no doubt. If you can get past the drug war propaganda, you would see that at least letting counties (like you have dry and alcohol counties) or states decide. Most libertarians agree that drug abuse is bad, and that one should limit or eliminate the use of any drugs (including alcohol and nicotine), but we do not think we should put non-violent drug users in prison, especially when it creates a black market with thugs more dangerous than the drugs themselves.

As for abortion, I agree, I wish the RLC was prolife, but they should acknowledge that it (murder) is a state issue and that Roe Vs Wade is an example of judicial activism at its worst. However, I'm not a one issue person, and still support 99% of the RLC platform.