The way I always figured it was that they made the perfect the enemy of the good. There was a lot of good that Ron Paul could have done, but he wasn’t always good and pure enough for the hard core Libertarians (notice the big “L”. They will f it up every time with that kind of thinking. They are never satisfied with what they could have gotten versus what they wanted with purity. Lately, I think some of them are starting to come around to the good enough kind of thinking.