[GeneV]

Yes one of the most liberal and most libertarian figures will be working together, with a surprising amount in common. Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on ‘progressive-libertarian alliance’ | Raw Story Among other things, they agree on military, the Patriot Act and Trade policy.

[mikemike]

Ron Paul has always been close friends with Denis Kucinich too. As a libertarian I align idealogically with the democrats on social issues (although I disagree with the policy steps needed to reach those ideals) and the republicans on fiscal issues (although I disagree and am disgusted with their fealty to corporate agendas on these issues).

[Ratmagiclady]

There's always been a great deal of overlap between Libertarian ideas and progressive ones: usually with a difference of opinion about the role of government as a protection from other kinds of power, like corporate or mob ones, and the whole 'rugged invdividualism' thing, ...the political spectrum in a sense, though, really isn't so much about right and left along a line, I think, though, so much as bent around in a circle where Greens and Libertarians actually tend to be pretty close to each other and overlap on a lot of things, like personal and social freedom, etc.

In a sense, the Libertarians have been bought out by conservative Republicans as an extreme-right party in terms of corporate-friendly-disempowering the people in the face of money concerns, etc, but there's always been that overlap in principle.

[jeffkrol]

Just for later
Richard Epstein on John Rawls on National Review Online

[reeftool]

This isn't as odd as it may seem. Libertarians view big government and government control as the greater evil than the smoke screen issues that the Republican/Democrat/Liberal/Conservative politicians like to get the voters upset about. While Paul and Nader likely disagree an many issues, they both support a scaled down and common sense approach for government.