I read where an effort is under way to draft Barr as the Libertarian presidential candidate. I wonder if speculation about that had something to do with “Uncommitted” being he runaway winner of MO’s Libertarian presidential primary.

In reality, most Republicans are libertarians, even many coming from the “Religious Right” perspective. Kudos to Barr for having the courage to do this. It certainly isn’t going to get him any lobbying jobs.

Libertarians with a capital L are generally not social libertarians though, they only have exalted notions of property rights. I’ll give credit to Barr for his somewhat tepid antiwar stance, but that’s about it.

Ron2, your characterization of Libertarians couldn’t be more inaccurate. In fact, while Libertarians are not libertines, they are certainly social libertarians. In the preamble to their 2006 platform (link below), they state that they “seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.”

Property rights are only one of many issues addressed there: Libertarians also call for the government to stop restricting a vast array of other things, ranging from guns and religion, to abortion and sexual preference.

http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml

PS - While I am a libertarian, I am not at the moment a Libertarian. I can easily see it happening some day, though.