Perhaps I will be able to answer your questions enough to your satisfaction that you will be unable to resist running down to the town hall and changing your voter registration. Otherwise, you may be the last Obama supporter left!

Now to answer your question, there are certainly some in the libertarian movement who would prefer no government, generally referring to themselves as anarcho-capitalists (see Rothbard, Murray). There are other libertarians who feel that a far more limited government than what we have now would be more practical and a more realistic goal to achieve in our lifetimes. It is a classic anarchist vs minarchist debate.

Personally, I feel that a night watchman state would be reasonable where the legitimate functions of the state are reduced to the protection of individuals from aggression, fraud, and theft.

I am tickled pink (if not pinko) that you have entered the blogosphere. I am afraid, however, that I won’t be able to not ask some questions of you. Let me start with the fundamental, and by no means easy question, that of what you would say libertarianism is to you. You hint at it when you speak about “our support for as limited a government as possible.” I’m not sure how that, without some further specification, differs from no government at all. Situations have arisen in history in which people have found themselves beyond the reach of government, so it seems that no government is a logical possibility. Oh, well, let me let you take over here.

Good story.  In the middle, though, it sounded more like you went through a religious conversion experience than simply a decision on what political party to support. 

(And, if I’m not mistaken, the remnant scripture refers to is the true Church.) 

~UP