Face it. The man is a fool; he’s bonkers. He’s not a conservative; he’s not a Republican. He’s his own weird brand of dumbed down Ayn Randianism. He’s leading a cult of fellow crackpots who’d rather believe his outrageous comments than their own common sense. On foreign policy, he’s further to the Left than Barak Obama. He says things that are more anti-American. If you take away his dope-smoking groupies, you end up with mostly weird old cranks.
The gun show Paulists who are armed with photocopies of chip-on-the-shoulder populist RP talking points are some of the worst, especially if they also have a "street preacher" streak that compels them to start proselytizing with anyone who walks past. I've had a few of them them get angry and visibly agitated, apparently because I didn't give them some sort of "amen" or "hallelujah" in response.
Mr. niteowl77
Lets be fair here, Ayn Rand absolutely hated libertarians. She called the Libertarians of her day (which were Paul's mentors) 'Hippies of the Right who trade capitalism for anarchy and reason for whims' (paraphrased).