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In reply to the discussion: Democrat Cory Booker wants to work with LIBERTARIAN Rand Paul [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)when you make a blanket statement such as that. In discussing specific people you can be correct in making such statements, or not, depending on the person.
If you're talking about the Pauls, I honestly don't know where they stand on these issues. I can't stand the Pauls, at all, so I don't pay them a lot of attention.
If you're talking about people who call themselves libertarians, there is a very wide range of belief, though in my experience they generally lean to the right (I lean way left), believe in the market as deity (I see it more as the fallen angel), defunding the military, not being the world's cop (I couldn't agree more), and many of them do believe nobody has a right to spy on them, corporate or government.
To the extent that the above is true, it is wise to form issue-specific coalitions to move policy. I don't care if they go home and sleep with Ayn Rand's descendents, if they're with me on an issue it's common ground that can be useful.