You need to learn the difference between Libertarianism as a Party and as a philosophy.
What 'whacked out answers' did Paul give?
Between 2001 and 2011 we spent $1 trillion "on the wars". Our current deficit is $1.4 trillion for this year alone. When Dr Paul indicates like that he has utterly no grasp of the real facts but is merely straining all reality thur the prism of his ideological dogmas, he raises serious questions about his fitness for the job of President
The party and the philosophy is the same. I don’t give a hoot what Wikipedia has to say on any of this. Wiki sites are information gathered by pajama wearing malcontents sitting in their mothers basement. I will take my info straight from the horses mouth. Murray Rothbard wrote the book on the modern Libertarian movement along with his sidekick Lou Rockwell. Paul was a follower of these guys and that is how he ended up in the movement.
Fine. Reagan made the statement of the blending of Conservatism and Libertarianism, but can you point to where it was put to practical use in his WH? It was most assuredly a Conservative Republican administration.
As for the Whacked Out answers Ron Paul peddled at the debate, one only has to go so far as his infantile explanation on why Iran should have a nuke. That answer alone should throw this dottering old reject out of the party. Let him and Dennis Kusinich start their own party of simpletons.