• • In Defense of Libertarians 
Rachael Williams, American Thinker Inaccurate  | Goldwater’s willingness to be, for lack of a better phrase, “wrong for the right reasons” earned him an endorsement from Ayn Rand -- who, in spite of her legacy of being the matriarch of modern libertarianism, rejected the Libertarian Party for many of the same reasons I do. Among them, there is the consideration that many of the party’s platforms focus on protecting a singular view of what choices freedom should allow, rather than protecting the individual liberty of being able to decide that for oneself.   Published: 2012-01-11