"Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's commitment to abstract libertarian ideology, so pronounced in the health care debate, disqualifies him from any comparison with the Whigs, who specifically, and repeatedly, distanced themselves from the sweeping ideological liberations celebrated by the Jacksonians."

There is nothing abstract about Paul Ryan's "libertarianism."  He has openly expressed devotion to the economic libertarianism of Ayn Rand.  Rand's materialistic atheism is also known as greed.