Unfortunately Ron Paul was not a good standard-bearer for the big "L" Libertarian cause and his more ardent supporters tended to "lose sight of the basic Libertarian concept ...
The extremist Marxist Left presently running the country is a great reason to build a coalition of conservatives and libertarians to beat back this communist horde and return to the American tradition of our Founders.
As a Party, they suck. Period.
Between an inability to get their message out to a near non-stop string of idiotic candidates, they are a mess.
As for Ron Paul, here's a guy that gave his enemies every opportunity to keep him marginalized and firmly in the "looney bin". And they took him up on his offer.