This quote from a 1987 Liberty Magazine article refers to Dr. Paul’s run as the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate, but I think the potential of impact of a Ron Paul presidential run that Rothbard foresaw in 1987 is being realized in Dr. Paul’s current campaign:

“The importance of this campaign is that Paul is an Old Right libertarian in the best sense, and that his 1988 campaign has the wonderful potential of reactivating a large number of instinctively libertarian and anti-Establishment Americans, men and women who, for thirty years*, have been deprived of articulate libertarian leadership. The Paul campaign can rouse these numerous Americans from their frustration and torpor and bring them into the libertarian movement, at the same time enlarging the ranks of libertarianism to make it a powerful force in American life.”

*Rothbard is referring to the mid-fifties displacement of the Old Right of Taft and Buffet with the pro-war, “conservative movement” centered around National Review.