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Nonsense. You are letting your irrational hatred for libertarians to cloud your judgment...again.We completely and totally disagree. Ron Paul was a libertarian who ran for president under their banner. He lost of course. He wanted a career and a paycheck so he went to the costume shop and bought a republican outfit.
I remember Norman Thomas who ran for president six times as a Socialist. Near the end of his life he was asked if he had wasted his life losing one election after the other by huge margins and never really having a chance. He replied that his long career was wonderfully successful as many of the issues he had advocated had come to passage over his long lifetime.
Of course, he was not concerned about a job or paycheck.
There is absolutely no reason you cant have a libertarian wing of the republican party just as you could have a moderate wing, a conservative wing, a Tea Party wing or a liberal wing.