TAPPED: Tapped : LIBERTARIANS OR REPUBLICANS?

Hard-core libertarians often claim to be above left or right, beyond Republican or Democrat. But in our experience the sociology of libertarians is usually such that they are functionally Republican. To put it another way, our libertarian friends always seem to care much, much more about what liberals do wrong than what conservatives do wrong; property takings always seem to anger them more than drug prohibition. Perhaps this is simply because liberals are more wrong, by libertarian standards, than conservatives -- that property takings are a bigger or more pervasive threat to liberty than pot laws... That's why liberals often have the sense that libertarians -- Washington libertarians, anyway -- are just conservatives by another name.

I know few liberal libertarians, most got into the party because they are anti-tax but objecting to the link Republicans have made with Christian fundamentalists.