To which you replied, "Those libertarians who sought to appease the USSR and Communist China and disarm America while screaming with pot-filled lungs about the welfare-warfare state.
Oh, you mean like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, who both sat down with the communists and attempted to negotiate an end to the Cold War? But then they weren't known pot users, so maybe that image doesn't fit.
Look, I took my share of insults from hippies and anti-Vietnam War types while working for Goldwater and Reagan. They were despicable human beings to put it kindly.
Many of these student radicals stayed on in the universities they caused trouble at to become TA's and later professors. It was a strategic error on the part of conservatives to remain on the wrong side of history even when Vietnam was lost, as the next two generations of college kids came under the influence of successively more radical and anti-freedom academics.
YAF, for all its valiant efforts in the early days, really missed the boat in the late 60s by not countering the hippies and teach-in radicals with . . guess what? . . a freedom-oriented message that would dovetail with what Ronald Reagan would be promoting just a few years later.
There is a ton of difference between libertarians and radical socialist/communist leftwingers, and you know it. Do not confuse an anti-war sentiment with leftism, as they are not the same. (And please refrain from the bong jokes, as even the sainted WFB, Jr. was in favor of legalizing pot. Now, even Tom Tancredo is on the legalization bandwagon. I am very sure he's not a user, and neither am I.)