The leak was an attempt to bolster the libertarian brand.

[ProSense]

169. Really?

"Hillarious, you don't even know what you are arguing....

You're just throwing out random crap in a kind of disfunctional Gish Gallop. Rand Paul is no more Libertarian than Paul Ryan was Objectivist. Both are REPUBLICAN. In the case of the former, he is a Republican who has embraced a handful of Libertarian positions, primarily on civil liberties -- about as many as most Pre-Obama Democrats supported.

Rather than come here posting wacky games of conspiracy/denial twister, how about you instead post what you support. As in..."

Greenwald:

There’s a major political fraud underway: the GOP is once again donning their libertarian, limited-government masks in order to re-invent itself and, more important, to co-opt the energy and passion of the Ron-Paul-faction that spawned and sustains the ”tea party” movement. The Party that spat contempt at Paul during the Bush years and was diametrically opposed to most of his platform now pretends to share his views. Standard-issue Republicans and Ron Paul libertarians are as incompatible as two factions can be — recall that the most celebrated right-wing moment of the 2008 presidential campaign was when Rudy Giuliani all but accused Paul of being an America-hating Terrorist-lover for daring to suggest that America’s conduct might contribute to Islamic radicalism — yet the Republicans, aided by the media, are pretending that this is one unified, harmonious, “small government” political movement.

http://www.salon.com/2010/02/21/libertarianism/