Yes, back a number of years ago the Republican Party promoted themselves as being the party of self-reliance, smaller government, and lower taxes. All that's been thrown aside in favor of being the party of God, and all you hear from them nowadays is pro-God, anti-Islam, anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-big business. Ever since the religious right took over the Republican Party, it's gone even further to the right from where it was and there's no sign it's ever going back. And I really don't think the teabaggers are libertarians, because they're really just the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. There's nothing libertarian about them since they're even more in favor of theocracy and banning anything they don't like, which is at the totally opposite end of the political spectrum of libertarianism.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.