In the 90's when I first became old enough to vote and interested in politics I was on the Libertarian band wagon with what most would consider down right hippi

In the 90's when I first became old enough to vote and interested in politics I was on the Libertarian band wagon with what most would consider down right hippies. Admittedly the biggest part of the agenda was legalizing marijuana but there were older, smarter people than me involved who knew exactly who Ron Paul was and what he stood for and fully backed him for president when he ran as a Libertarian against Clinton. My view at the time was that Libertarians were fiscally conservative and critical of large government while at the same time leftist in their view of individual rights and freedoms. Kind of a "stay out of my wallet and my bedroom" attitude. But that's not really the mainstream view anymore and as many center oriented Republicans have stated I think a lot of 90's Libertarians feeling is that they didn't leave the Libertarian party so much as it left them.