Doesn't the Libertarian movement champion the best ideas of both the left and right?

[Padawong Somchai]

I'm truly against federal government over-use and wasteful spending from both main parties. I like how the libertarian party is truly committed to lower government waste and spending while also allowing social freedom for example being against the drug war, allowing states to decide the abortion issue on their own (federal government doesn't interfere), and ending the Iraq war and generally against warhawk behavior in general militarily.

Many US libertarians though some would assume we're in favor of allowing illegal immigration because of the assumption that it is free market between the employer and employee, many of us are actually against allowing porous borders besides from the national security risk, many illegals and their children/families generally use in net more government services than they contribute.

The most well known outspoken libertarian in US government is Ron Paul. Though part of the Republican party his views are more in line with the Libertarian Party.

Ron Paul rejects universal health care, believing that the more government interferes in medicine, the higher prices rise and the less efficient care becomes. He points to how many people today are upset with the HMO system, but few people realize that HMOs came about because of a federal mandate in 1973. Ron Paul endorses defederalization of the health care system. Paul also states that he has an opposition to virtually all federal interference with the market process.

Paul's campaign slogan for 2004 was "The Taxpayers' Best Friend!" He would completely eliminate the income tax by shrinking the size and scope of government to what he considers its Constitutional limits, noting that he has never voted to approve an unbalanced budget; he has observed that even scaling back spending to 2000 levels eliminates the need for the 42% of the budget accounted for by individual income tax receipts.

Generally libertarianism allows for some of the social liberalism commonly associated with the left combined with a good sense of fiscal conservatism and reason. For example, Ron Paul a well known figure in the movement in the US, voted in support of HR 5136, an amendment that leads to a full repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," on 27 May 2010.

On abortion debate, while personally deeply against abortion, Paul has said that the ninth and tenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution do not grant the federal government any authority to legalize or ban abortion, stating that "the federal government has no authority whatsoever to involve itself in the abortion issue."

On the drug issue, Paul contends that prohibition of drugs is ineffective and advocates ending the War on Drugs. Paul favors the use of marijuana as a medical option. He was cosponsor of H.R. 2592, the States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act. He is currently a supporter of the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2008.