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LOS ANGELES — LIBERTARIANS, to the extent we can ever hope for real political success, should be excited about Rand Paul. But Mr. Paul, the Kentucky senator who is running for president, has treated his libertarian inheritance as more burden than boon. He’s even called libertarianism an “albatross,” though a growing, and young, share of the Republican Party is rallying around libertarian ideals.
Mr. Paul inherited the problem of libertarian purity from his father, Ron Paul, who served three stints as a congressman from Texas and sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008 and 2012.
The younger Mr. Paul campaigned for his father, but is now edging away warily. Invoking Barry M. Goldwater is hazardous for a Republican these days. Goldwater’s insistence on a limited role for government seemed radical even in 1964, and yet, with enthusiastic youth activist support, the Republican Party gave him its nomination that year. (He then lost to Lyndon B. Johnson, in a landslide.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/opinion/rand-paul-lukewarm-libertarian.html
Mr. Paul inherited the problem of libertarian purity from his father, Ron Paul, who served three stints as a congressman from Texas and sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008 and 2012.
The younger Mr. Paul campaigned for his father, but is now edging away warily. Invoking Barry M. Goldwater is hazardous for a Republican these days. Goldwater’s insistence on a limited role for government seemed radical even in 1964, and yet, with enthusiastic youth activist support, the Republican Party gave him its nomination that year. (He then lost to Lyndon B. Johnson, in a landslide.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/opinion/rand-paul-lukewarm-libertarian.html
