[JPhillips]

But cutting wasteful spending isn't the end all of libertarianism. Hell, I'd agree with most of the pork you want to cut and could probably add billions to the list. That sort of pain free cutting of the budget does have a lot of support.

However, you know as well as I do that the goal of big L or small l libertarians is to radically cut the size of government. Right now that's simply wildly unpopular. Paul's a bit of a phenomenon, but it's highly unlikely that he could even command a quarter of the population to say they support him and if he gets a fifth of that to vote for him I'll be surprised.

You may be right that over time you can persuade people, but my point is that currently there is almost no support for the big goals of libertarianism. To argue that point seems asinine.