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Do you recognize the difference between a philosophy and a party line?  Being a conservative, I hold to conservative principles.  If I didn't, then I couldn't honestly call myself a conservative.  Being conservative, doesn't mean being a republican, or following the republican party line. 


The same can be said for liberals as well.  Their philosophy is liberal and if they don't hold with the tenets of the liberal philosophy, they couldn't honestly call themselves liberals.


Libertarians on the other hand have made their philosophy and their political party one in the same.  If you are a libertarian that picks and chooses the parts of your philosophy that you like and disregards those that you don't, then you personify one of the flaws commonly found within libertarian acolytes. 


Making a political party of a philosophy is just one more example of the shortsightedness of libertarianism.


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