YAF National Board Expels Ron Paul From Advisory Board

The Washington Times ^ | Saturday, February 12, 2011 | Kerry Picket

[crazyhorse691]

3 times I have had to suffer MY rep. at my table. Even though he is very liberal I guess by your criteria my rep.(Earl Blumenauer)is a great guy because he drove himself to the restaurant to chat it up with people. I hope you make lots of money from that bridge you bought.

[crazyhorse691]

3 times I have had to suffer MY rep. at my table. Even though he is very liberal I guess by your criteria my rep.(Earl Blumenauer)is a great guy because he drove himself to the restaurant to chat it up with people. I hope you make lots of money from that bridge you bought.

[glyptol]

Thanks.
Yet another non-sequitur.

[crazyhorse691]

I hit post only once...honest.

[OldDeckHand]

"Have any of the people posting ever sat across the table and talked to the Congressman representing your district? "

My Congressmen is Debbie Wassermann-Schultz (by about 120 yards). Before that, it was Jim Moran (by probably less than 2-300 yards). If either one sat down at my table, I would projectile vomit long before they could utter a word. Then, I'd probably carve my eyes out with the soup spoon, because what has been seen, may not be unseen.

I'm glad you enjoyed your chat with Ron. Some of us aren't as lucky in the jackpot of Congressional districting.

[Crim]

Bout frickin time.

[Islander7]

Sheesh. If someone gave you a million bucks, you would complain that it wasn’t a billion, I think.

Sheesh....if you weren't such a noob, you'd know FReepers have had these complaints about RP for years.

[ohioWfan]

BUMP

[Munz]

>
Exactly right. Paul is correct about the Fed... but that doesn’t matter if we are all dead.<

‘nuff said

[mnehring]

btt
About time. That is a Conservative group, not a Libertarian group.

[KevinDavis]

Didn’t your idol Ron Paul called Reagan a “Failure”.. He left the GOP in 88 cause of Reagan and lost big time..

[Lurker]

and lost big time..

How many elections has Congressman Paul lost?

[Alex Murphy]

Buckley was a "conservative libertarian?"

They're still calling themselves the "Young Americans for Freedom" fifty years later?

[logician2u]

. . they're tagging their figurehead, Buckley, as a "conservative libertarian."

I'm sorry but that's absurd. I don't care who you are.

But, but, but . .

WFB himself admitted to being a "libertarian journalist" on the cover of one of his many books.

He also wrote about toking up in the middle of the Atlantic (where he was out of reach of the DEA--at that time) which we all know is the only thing Libertarians care about, legalizing pot. Proof positive.

</sarc>

In retrospect, having been a subscriber for many years to National Review and often enjoying Buckley's "Notes and Asides" a bit more than the rest of his occasionally dull magazine, it would be quite a challenge to peg WFB on either the libertarian or conservative map, as his political compass wandered considerably over the years.

Most recently, just a year before his death, Buckley wrote a column that expressed his disillusionment with both the way the war in Iraq was being conducted and, to a degree, the Bush/Cheney rationale for the 2003 invasion. In the same article, he forecast a Republican defeat if things were not turned around. That was in 2007, and of course we know 0bama could not have known WFB's campaign advice since he doesn't read National Review

Like other members of wealthy east coast families, his elitism often distinguished his views from Middle America. Though a devout Catholic and fiercely anti-abortion, it was not beneath him to support a pro-choice Democrat (Lieberman) over a RINO (Weicker). That would not play in Peoria, or Pascagoula for that matter.

The final chapter hasn't been written on the Buckleys, and won't be until probably son Christopher begins drawing Social Security payments. I'd like to know, but won't live long enough.

[PghBaldy]

You never heard of YAF? It at the very least has some renown, and I was a lib until 11 years ago. I think I heard of it either through Laura Ingraham or Ann Coulter.

[Turbopilot]

“Who would have ever thought that we would see the day when YAF was more aligned with the Obama administration than a formerly conservative Republican congressman?"

Just wow. Hope they enjoy being "aligned with the Obama administration".

[Mr. Silverback]

Post of the thread.

[logician2u]

Good catch.

Read the comments following YAF's press release for more.

[PghBaldy]

Uh- they have different members than 50 years ago. YMCA and YWCA were founded many decades ago, yet have kept the “Y” in their names (at least until they ditched the C).

[Candor7]

Thas right Jack. Paul won the GAY vote at CPAC.He is officially now one of the "bend ovah boys!"

I am sure he is back in Texas, watching regular screenings of Broke Back Mountain, and whiping away the tears every few minutes, dreaming of fudge packer votes.