Libertarians

Writer Brian Doherty posts the following article at reason.com on 11/29/2012 in the "Hit & Run" Blog:

Ron Paul's "Exit Interview" with Washington Post: Hopeful, Humble, and Hating Welfare for the Rich

The article discusses Ron Paul's retirement and links to an exit interview with Paul by The Washington Post's Brook Silva-Braga . The following quotes say much about the appeal of Libertarian ideals as opposed to the details of how they would/could/should be implemented in a practical sense:

"Paul observes that more generic expressions of a liberty message--general belief in free enterprise and keeping what you earn, keeping government out of our private lives, not being policeman of the world--get surprising assent.

But "when it comes to particulars people don't necessarily stick with it. "Yes, but you go too far, you want too much freedom!" (A common phenomenon when it comes to libertarianism, which I have long found gets greater assent the more vaguely you express its principles.)"

I'm still struggling with the whole Liberty and Freedom thing when they often sound like nothing more than buzzwords.