Glenn Reynolds now claims he's really a libertarian after all.

Sweet! I can go back to NPL and "libertarian."

I WASN'T GOING TO RESPOND when Andrew Sullivan -- deliberately, or in unforgivable cluelessness -- transformed my statement about leaving the Libertarian Party into something about not being a libertarian at all. Andrew says a lot of silly things about me these days, and life is too short to pay attention to them. But now that silliness seems to be spreading. So let me repeat what I said before: "But note that no longer being a member of the Libertarian Party is hardly the same thing as not being a libertarian. If it were, there would be precious few libertarians left." Anyone who can't understand the difference between libertarian ideas and the Libertarian Party probably isn't smart enough to be blogging, and certainly shouldn't have his page topped with the words "Of no party or clique."

Putz does have a habit of calling people stupid when they hit a nerve.

Anyway, it seems clear to everyone, including Sullivan (and CATO, and Ron Paul, for that matter), what libertarian ideas are. It's entirely less clear that Putz, the neoconservative Bush follower, does.