Posted on 02/12/2011 6:18:30 PM PST by kristinn
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) , a conservative libertarian group founded in 1960 at the estate of William F. Buckley, expelled Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, from their advisory board on Saturday. The organization released the following statement on Saturday afternoon:
The National Board of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)—America's oldest conservative-libertarian activist group—has, per curium, voted to purge Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) from YAF’s National Advisory Board.
YAF’s concern with Rep. Paul stems from his delusional and disturbing alliance with the fringe Anti-War movement.
“It is a sad day in American history when a one-time conservative-libertarian stalwart has fallen more out of touch with America’s needs for national security than the current feeble and appeasing administration,” said YAF’s Senior National Director Jordan Marks.
“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? Rep. Paul's refusal to support our nation’s military and national security interests border on treason, aside from his failure to uphold his oath to the United States Constitution and defend our country and citizens against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” Marks continued.
SNIP
YAF National Chairman Michael Jones issued the following statement on this issue:
SNIP “Freedom and prosperity cannot peacefully exist alongside radical Islam. It is unfortunate that Ron Paul--a member of the U.S. Congress-- does not understand this. Surely, our enemies do.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
It's not rocket science to anyone who knows anything about Bill Buckley, the National Review - or for that matter conservatism. However, being that you need someone to slowly explain the screamingly obvious, here goes:
The YAF is delusional because they actually believe in their wildest, bizarro, hallucinogen-induced fantasy world that Bill Buckley (New-Order Catholic founder of NR) ever was, for even a single moment, a "conservative libertarian."
Oh wait... you REALLY think that Buckley was a "conservative liberarian."
Nevermind.
>>Can it exist alongside non-radical Islam??
Sure. Along with the faeries, unicorns, and leprechauns, since all of these, along with non-radical Islam, are mythical beasts. They can all co-habitate just fine.
I’ve been around a good bit longer than 20 years sonny boy, and Buckly was no Goldwater. That’s for sure.
As a former member of the YAF (early 1970’s), I can say, without question, that you are 100% wrong about them.
We had (maybe) a dozen members at my college campus and we fought hard for CONSERVATIVE principles during a time when the other ‘students’ were waving Communist flags and worshiping Hanoi Jane.
What were you doing at that time?
“Why did it take them so long to figure this out?”
Sheesh. If someone gave you a million bucks, you would complain that it wasn’t a billion, I think.
And if Kennedy’s constituents thought he was a murderer they had recourse at the ballot box every six years. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t, just means they didn’t care. Just like Paul’s constituents don’t care than he’s a nutcase.
All of this has nothing to do with YAF’s right to toss Paul out, weather Mr. Mark has won an election or not.
I'm not disputing their right to do so.
I'm sure they'll be throwing their weight behind Mitt Romney before the end of the week all the while celebrating Romney's conservative bona fides.
Have any of the people posting ever sat across the table and talked to the Congressman representing your district? I have. It was Ron Paul.
I may not agree with him on all his positions but as a Congressman representing our district he came by and met with those in the district in person. More than once. And drove the car himself.
When was the last time your representative talked to you DIRECTLY across the table at a restaurant.
I’ll start counting.
Goodnight.
The present-day YAF is a shadow of its former self, in the glory days of conservative activism when the Red Menace was the one cause that united conservatives from coast to coast.
Even then, there were factions that just plain couldn't agree on what "freedom" -- as in the organization's last name -- really meant. Freedom to be conscripted into the nation's armed forces to fight an undeclared war? Or freedom to visit a country such as Cuba without having to obtain a foreign passport? Freedom to publicly denounce a Republican president when his economic policies are antithetical to accepted conservative wisdom?
Those and other sticky questions of national policy served to diminish the organization's cohesiveness until, in recent years, its leaders rediscovered local(and largely trivial) issues members could rally around with maximum effect, such as staging affirmative action bake sales and opposing politically-correct campus speech codes.
Who are the remaining members of YAF's Advisory Board? Anyone know? I can't find a list of officers or anyone else on their Web site. It invites me to contribute and/or join and has a concise history of the last 50 years but says absolutely nothing about who is in charge of the operation.
Whatever your supposed credentials are, they're tagging their figurehead, Buckley, as a "conservative libertarian."
I'm sorry but that's absurd. I don't care who you are.
I know. So how anyone claiming to be a conservative claims “no one ever heard of them” is absurd. They’ve been around since before many supposedly informed conservatives were even born. And ain’t going anywhere too soon.
No takers?
I’m still counting.
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Out in CA, you can't get the corrupt political frauds to answer their phones, and when they do, their answered by some over paid arrogant staff member who belongs to some bloated government union run by government mobsters.
Well, that was a nice non-sequitur, thanks.
Have you seen this?
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