Hit and Run, Roderick Long and others are discussing: should Libertarians make common cause with the left? How about "tentatively yes". The Right have relied on our vote for too long, and if we moved leftward in vote (though not in principle), it might shake the resolve of certain right-wing parties. The Republicans don't see libertarians as floating voters - they might vote for the LP, but that's not really going to make any difference. And here in the UK, it's very unlikely that the Tories are going to particularly care about our floating vote. 
As I've said, I will vote for whoever is on the ballot and most likely to advance liberty - and I've voted for all three main parties on broadly that principle. Of course, my vote means nothing in comparison to my writing - I'm in a super safe Tory seat.
Both have rapidly-disappearing values. What values they have stink to high heaven of authoritarianism. As principled people, libertarians choosing between left and right is like choosing between Lenin, Lennon, Reagan and (Pat) Robertson. They're personalities, postmodern dead celebrities (Robertson's intellectually dead, I'm hoping his body catches up soon). Picking between them is purely utilitarian.
The Left has got silly and gloriously self-contradictory. On my walk to the library, I pass a bookshop called "Bookmarks". It's a socialist bookshop. It takes Visa and MasterCard. Anti-capitalist, my arsehole. It hangs around with fundamentalist cretins and supports freedom of speech only when convenient. That said, it's more likely that we could persuade lefties of the benefits of capitalism than we could persuade Bush of the merits of pacifism and secularism. The former are silly, the latter is dangerous.
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