So it is with the Bushian Republican coalition with any suckers they can bring in to vote for them – Christians, libertarians, farmers, stockbrokers –
it is a coalition of no particular ideology but rather lust for power.

Because supporters of freedom oppose big government (warfare or welfare), it is often considered the same as: pro-drug, pro-sex, pro-plutocrat, pro-Palestine, pro-Taliban, pro-white-Supremacist, pro-French-Fry, pro-lesbian, or whatever because supporters of freedom oppose COERCION.

The inverse is that advocates of some specific position will SELECTIVELY invoke “libertarian arguments” on behalf of their pet cause: which could be tax cuts, abortion, gay marriage, free heroin, Sharia Law… – but often, these same people will advocate coercion on most other issues. Hence the tax cutter who wants to bomb the planet and subsidize the defense industry. The pro-gay-marriage person who wants to force the Catholic Church to pay for birth control. The anti-war person who denounces Israel if they shoot back when mortars fly into Sderot….