On the Idiotic Claim that Libertarianism Has "Infected" the Republican Party

The jackass who made this claim has said a myriad of stupid things in the past but this one takes the cake. a) Libertarians are opposed to war and foreign entanglements - the Republicans, not so much. b) Libertarians are strongly in favor of civil liberties (mostly pro-choice on abortion, mostly pro immigrant, mostly in favor of marriage equality, mostly opposed to warrantless wiretaps, mostly opposed to the drug war, etc.) and  rail against the police state - the Republicans, not so much. c) Libertarians are opposed to the Military Industrial Complex and only want a military robust enough to defend the homeland - the Republicans, not so much. d) Libertarians are opposed to fiat currency and the existence of a strong central bank (based on a fear that these two things will make the funding of warfare all too easy) - the Republicans, not so much. And e) libertarians are opposed to ALL Washington lobbying, ALL crony capitalism, and ALL bailouts (the fact that bailouts remove the moral hazard of investing) - the Republicans (and possibly the Democrats even more so), not so much.................................................................................................Granted, the libertarians DO agree with the Republicans (not that the Republicans are always trust-worthy on this one; Hoover jacked up the top rates by a whopping 152% and an economy that was actually getting better in 1930 fully shit the bed) that the top tax-rates need to be kept modest, but that's because you actually get more money from the rich when the rates are somewhere between 25 and 50% than you do when they're somewhere between 70 and 94% (http://paranoiacstoogetalk.blogspot.com/2014/01/its-revenue-to-federal-government-stupid.html ) and, besides, it's through the initiation of force that income taxes are raised and we're all opposed to that (at least to some degree), right?.................................................................................................P.S. And another thing that this moron doesn't seem to understand is that libertarianism is a) a continuum (from Johann Norberg all the way to Robert Higgs) and b) an umbrella category that covers a dozen or so subsets (classical liberals, paleolibertarians, civil libertarians, anarchocapitalists, etc.), and so the very fact that he's attempting (as astutely as his microscopic mind is capable of) to corral us all together is itself full-bore idiocy.