While I am more sympathetic to libertarian principles that many conservatives, there is a need for government intervention in some areas such as antitrust, for one example. The difference is that some people take a pragmatic view of libertarian principles, others, like Ron Paul, are ideologues. Beware of the utopian idealist ideologue. They will either become totalitarian (like many on the left and the far right) or, in Ron Paul's case, go too far to the other extreme.
I do disagree with Charles about one thing: the so-called War on Drugs has been every bit as successful as Prohibition was in the 1920's. For 40 years, we have done the same things over and over, always expecting the next tightening of the law to have a different outcome than the last gazillion times that we have tightened it. Legalize at least some drugs and tax them, but make being under the influence of drugs or alcohol an aggravating circumstance for any crime committed while under that influence--perhaps, a bounce of one level, e.g. a Class III Felony becomes Class II if committed while under the influence.
I don't like Romney, but a vote for Ron Paul, or any third-party candidate, is a vote for four more years of Obama.
