Claymore, I did say that La Rouce was a nutcase, didn't I? Yes, I did. What I am curious about, is why so many former Libertarian Party members are now voting Republican rather than Libertarian (and working for Republican campaigns instead of Libertarian ones). I am also curious about those people who are self-identifying as Republican leaning, independent libertarians (ie people whom, I'm guessing, believe in what they think is a libertarian political philosophy, but aren't self-identifying as members of the Libertarian or Republican parties).

I really don't see any ideological differences between the Libertarian Party's platforms of the last 40 or so years, and today's Republican Party platforms. Both parties can claim membership of people from a broad political spectrum, from Posse Comitatus to John McCain to Olympia Snowe. OK, so the Libertarians probably can't claim too many Olympia Snowes. But you do catch my drift, I hope.

Ideologically, I don't see a difference, so I'm curious to see how Libertarian Party members and independent libertarians believe they differ from one another.