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.
And to the extent that it left libertarian principles, it was a failure.
For all his anti-Gov't rhetoric, Reagan left the government larger then when he took office.
Who wanted Pakistan to have a nuke?
But they do.
We don't control everything in the world.
That is all Paul is saying.