Sorry but listing some of the the most libertarian and in the middle Republicans in office with some sensibility on social issues in an article as a reason to stop hating republicans is just not a good reason, remember they are the guys that declared war on drugs utilizing propaganda as a means to justify their cause so they could not only primarily further marijuana as a criminal related substance but make money doing it, only thing it accomplished was to make the "problem" with marijuana even worse!
Further more its only a small percentage of republicans who are in this mindset. I like libertarian leaning people, but they have no influence in policy at all.