re: Things Libertarians need to realize...

I would say Libertarians are way more like the Tea Party than they think.

Tea Party in my eyes, and I consider my self a hard core Tea Party person

Tea Party
Small Government
State control goverment, not federal
T.E.A. Taxed Enough Already (Which I'm find if you want to raise taxes to the same as they were in the Clinton years, the catch is, we go back to the spending habits we had in the Clinton years also.)
Stay out of my money, my health, my lifestyle(bedroom), my internet and don't tell me what to do on Sundays.

That's a big finger to Big Government Repubs and Dems.

Brace yourselves but I just listed a lot of things that the evil Ted Cruz agrees with. Also Rand Paul.