Libertarians at CPAC

The right side of the blogosphere has been talking about Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The libertarians are a little upset that things seemed to be dominated by social conservatives as opposed to people with more libertarian leanings. Instapundit feels this is to be expected because:

Libertarians' influence, of course, has been reduced by the split over the war among libertarians...

Prior to this Libertarian influence has been reduced by the split over border policy, transportation policy, drug policy, and what to have for lunch.

If there is one thing to say about Libertarians, it is that they sure know how to disagree and fragment. Libertarians tend to all want their policy their way or they are going to take their vote and go home. After all if they wanted to sell out, they could just vote Republican and at least have prayer of winning an election. Because of this running the Libertarian Party is like herding cats. The best they can ever hope for is some token influence to prevent them from becoming a spoiler.