YAF Boots Ron Paul off its National Advisory Board…
I sense a deluge of hate mail in the YAF’s not-so-distant future.
(Politico) — A prominent conservative activist group has given Ron Paul the boot.
The Young Americans for Freedom has voted the Texas congressman off its national advisory board in the aftermath of his straw poll win at CPAC over his positions on national security issues.
“It’s 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 then our current socialist presidential regime,” said the group’s national director Jordan Marks.
The dispute between Paul and the the group seems to stem from Paul’s anti-war activities and the prominence of his supporters at conservative events like CPAC.
“Rep. Paul is clearly off his meds and must be purged from public office. YAF is starting the process by removing him from our national advisory board. Good riddance and he won’t be missed,” added Marks.
Posted by ZIP on Saturday, February 12, 2011, at 11:44 pm | 
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Hmmmmm. Ron Paul is certainly right out of it when it comes to the military. He is naive enough to believe that a militia and a small navy is sufficient to protect America. His work on fighting the Federal reserve is extremely important. Its just as important as getting rid of the democrats.
Cheers for them doing this ~
Way past time, when you have 1100 registered to vote and something like 3700 do, something like a leftist tactic to voting is present….don’t ya think?
mike, totally agree, he is the best when it comes to the filthy federal reserve and other matters, other than that though he grates on me – big time.
He cannot wait to be in the spot-light on various shows anymore than McRINO or Little Lindsey can….which of course the leftist talking heads love, and he knows full well, like they all do for their own individual agendas.
Aside from his Congressional seat I’m thinking the closest he’d get to being a winner in a POTUS election is the damn CPAC straw polls.
LOL
Dennis Kucinich without the hot redhead wife towering over him.
Ron Paul is a fruitcake over stuffed with nuts! The two minutes I could stand watching this train wreck’s presentation he was twitching and shaking. He makes Dennis Kucinich look sane and surely that is a scary thought.
I consider myself a Conservative and no fan of the Pauls and zero tolerance for Paulbots.
Does freedom equal imperialism and militarism? If so, then I am not interested in “freedom.” Ron Paul has done more than anyone to advance the ideas of freedom and liberty in a very long time. This is a foolish move by YAF.
The more I read what he has to say, the more he makes sense. YAF made a mistake.
The more I read what he has to say, the more he makes sense. YAF made a mistake.
Yes, big mistake Mindy Lou and right on Michael.
he does not make sense when you start talking about presidential elections. isolationism is not an option. there are very few people who I would consider more dangerous as president than Mr. Magoo.
I want Ron Paul nowhere near the White House. Not even on a visitor pass. He is dangerously off balanced. He wants us to put a wall around the US and then everything will be okey-dokey. Well, in the real world, it just don’t doesn’t happen that way. He needs to go back to Texas and retire where he can’t cause any damage.
Bravo, YAF! A great move.
Ron Paul is correct and in line with the U.S. Constitution, our rule of law. Ron Paul has been in the military, actually he was “indirectly forced” to volunteer. He received a note that he could take the rank of Captain/Doctor if he volunteered OR be drafted and then be a private…guess what he decided? Volunteer! He’s no fool and he has given professionally and patriotically to our country. He is not anti-military but anti-military occupation there is a big difference there. We only have so much financial resources. He understands this, why can’t others?
Does freedom equal imperialism and militarism? If so, then I am not interested in “freedom.”
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No, you wouldn’t be. It’s so much easier to first just expect all you have and can have to be simply available to your reach … and then snap like a pint-sized dog at anyone who tells you it came at, and comes at a price/cost.
One of the best movie monologues ever written that backfired on the liberal/leftist/anti-American-military Hollywood writer says it all:
“… we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? … I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. … You have the luxury of not knowing what I know … And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.”
YAF made no ‘mistake’. They have every right to preserve what they believe and stand for. They didn’t move away from RonPaul, apparently he moved away from him.
Correction:
“apparently he moved away from him” = apparently he moved away from them.
Maggie, insulting me by comparing me to a “pint sized dog” really doesn’t help your case. Neither does saying that YAF has a right to stand up for what they believe – of course they have that right. On the other hand, I have the right to stand up against imperialism and militarism. If you believe in the Wilsonian mission of “making the world safe for democracy” and all that jazz more power to you. But you shouldn’t be able to kill people, occupy countries and support dictators with my money. In a truly free country that wouldn’t be possible. If you want to go overseas and kill people do it yourself on your own dime and with your own weapons.
Buy an island. You’re halfway there.
I’ll bet Allen West scares the hell out of you people. You’re like a hive of bugs.
I believe Paul has a lot of good ideas. And a lot of bad ones. Besides, being batshit crazy, he has a lot of followers.
Maggie sounds very much like a collectivist. Your rhetoric about no person being an island sounds exactly like a collectivist, in face. And again you sling the insults comparing me to “a hive of bugs.” That will certainly win people over to your pro-imperialist positions, rights?
As far as Allen West, why do you think he scares me? I heard his CPAC speech where he talked about his committment to Israel and his pro-foreign interventionism policies. I thought he would make an excellent Israeli politician – in fact, I wondered if he represented Florida or Tel Aviv? What is small government about propping up a foreign regime or intervening militarily all over the world for a foreign government? If that’s your idea of “freedom,” it’s certainly not mine. Nor does it sound like anything Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun or Patrick Henry would have supported.
By the way, have you ever read George Washington’s Farewell Address? Probably not, I’m guessing. His warning against exactly the same foreign policy you are promoting would probably disturb you.
More like Young Americans for WAR!! Damn Neo-con Warmongers. Get that military industrial complex checked…
“I hadn’t heard of YAF doing anything in years, I thought they were defunct. Young Americans for Liberty is the group of the future,” said Ron Paul’s political director (and in-law) Jesse Benton in an email to POLITICO.
This election is too important to be impeded by candidates who are fraying around the edges. This is real life and we are in deep sh*t. Send in the adults, please. And give Paul a box of crayons to play with until after 2012.
Has Paul’s position about national policies shifted in the past 4 years? No.
This was just an attempt by the YAF to grab publicity. No matter what you may think of Paul, they YAF’s move was scummy.
Michael you have some real issues, my man. You talk about Jefferson and Washington, yet in the same thread suggest we just “go overseas and kill people” and that our country engages in “imperialism and militarism.”
Have you bothered to look at who we are at war with, and the tactics they use and how long THEY have been at war with US?
You have no clue what Jefferson supported, obviously. Same with Steve. In case you didnt notice, they were all for WAR when you were being atacked or opressed. Remember that little thing called the revolution? Yeah. It was a war.
Id rather be branded a “neo-con (whatever the hell thats supposed to be?) warmonger” than be a stupid fool who thinks radical muslims (especially after 9/11!) are going to just roll over and be buddy buddy with us. In case you fools havent noticed, people are trying to destroy us, whether we send troops anywhere or not. Stop using your asses as hats and wake up.
I think Lurvley put it well. Ron Paul isnt the answer to anything. We need sane, rational people to take charge. Whining mental patients and the current idiots will certainly not do.
LooneyTarians as opposed to ConservaTarians?
You CINOs (conservatives in name only) are such hypocrites. You go to Tea Parties carrying signs with pictures of the Founding Fathers and have no idea what they said about standing armies, foreign entanglements, and empire building.
You call yourselves fiscal conservatives and demand spending cuts but have no problem giving the military a trillion dollars a year to maintain bases all around the world and a nuclear stockpile for an enemy that no longer exists.
Your brand of conservatism comes from Bush and Cheney’s policy of American intervention in any country at any time for any reason, even if that reason has no basis in fact. Ron Paul has it right, the only nation we need to be building is this one.
The Paul Father & Son Act is extreme Anti-Semite of the worst kind!!
This pair have no place in the Tea Party movement!!
Allen West is surely The Man!!!
So now it’s CINOs. Oh well throw your disparaging labels around,I still wouldn’t vote for Ron Paul.
Hmmmm, I see the progressives have infiltrated even the zip site. Tell me folks, what RIGHT do you have to force YOUR viewpoint on other sovereign nations?
Hmmmm?
Yes, we are to have a NATIONAL defense. Does that mean an INTERNATIONAL defense? Oh, we are to protect our views around the world are we? Sounds like the fascists and socialists are making your viewpoints for you. The left and right was ALWAYS defined in the past as the argument between the power of the government (left) vs the power of the individual (right).
Let me ask you, do you believe in the Constitution? If it takes a Constitutional Amendment to enact a prohibition against one drug (alcohol) would it not require an Amendment for any drug? This should be left to the states. Remember that little pesky amendment?
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
What? Are you going to argue that we have the RIGHT to force our views on other countries? Yes, we were attacked. Did we grab those responsible? Did we kill them? What is the purpose of the neverending wars? To keep us safe or to force something else.
If you even ATTEMPT to call me an appeaser you have already lost the argument. I myself would use the old arguments of Reagan, peace through STRENGTH! Hell at least back then we actually had a huge US military presence HERE in the US. Now we have shutdown more than half of the bases in the US to open them in other countries. How bout letting the world protect themselves from their own idiocy.
We have the power to strike any part of the globe within minutes now. What EXACT purpose does it provide for the US to be the purveyor of force around the globe? Does it help us here in the US or does it help the crony capitalists tied to our government?
You need to make a choice, do you believe in the progressives masquerading as Democrats and Republicans, ala Socialists or Neo Cons, or do you believe in actual freedom. You folks falling for the Neo Con agenda are beginning to spook me.
Wow, I wrote about a 10k character comment and it went POOF.
I am not going to rewrite it but just say this-Those that are falling for the Neo Con and Progressive agenda are really beginning to spook me.
So, what EXACTLY is your limit to the amount of war and police action you are willing to use to keep the US “safe”? How bout the amount of invasion of privacy?
What about the amount of aggressive shakedowns?
Folks, we need to shutdown the borders. We need to do many things, but becoming the police of the world will not solve the problems. We need to provide freedom and liberty at home and not around the globe. How goes that nation building? How goes that socialist safety net? How goes that crony capitalism? Otherwise known as State Capitalism or communism. How goes that removal of individual property rights?
Wake up!
When Ron Paul’s fanatical followers are booing conservatives off stages with as much zeal as liberal fanatics, something’s got to give. His followers do him more harm than he does himself. RP has some good ideas, but honestly, he has more ideas which are simply silly beyond the bar stool. I’d vote for Alfred E. Newman over Barack Hussein Barry Soetoro Obama. I’m not sure I’d vote at all if my only option was Ron Paul.
The New Paul Panther Party.
Michael SC -
You want to see insults, scroll down the front page to the previous Ron Paul thread and have a gander at your comrades.
Me? A collectivist? You wound me … Hardly. BTW, my generations of Marine and military relatives (those still walking, and those sitting with The Lord)say “you’re welcome, you ungrateful lazy rube.” Your anti-military, anti-war stance has nothing to do with this nation’s taxes and budget, and everything to do with your want for an easy roll-over to those who seek to seep in here and dissolve our Constitution and our way of life. “Collectivist”? Paul followers are so much closer to the whole ‘hive mentality’ than anyone that comes here on a daily basis for conversation.
The island reference is the fact Paulbots believe we should be isolationists in a world that won’t stay in its own yard, no matter if we jump in or close our blinds. The belief is that once the USA stops being the top dog the rest of the world will simply relax and peace will flood the universe? Please.
You are the ‘blame America first’ bunch. Look to your left and find Code Pink, ANSWER, and any number of billionaire imperialist Soros funded anti-American soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder with you. Paul’s base is every bit as uncivil as these people. Anarchists. They respect nobody. They respect nothing. Please, tell us, do you spit on a serviceman when you pass by one? Do you call him an imperialist? Baby-killer?
If RonPaul would ever have a chance in Hell your nutbag comrades would continually make the evening news as fodder for the eager democrat-driven media, and the bulk of the voting country that doesn’t bother with debating these candidates with opposition, and needs to be sold on a candidate, would sour on Paul and reach for the socialist democrat candidate. Paul doesn’t have to shoot himself in the foot. His fanatic base does a pretty good job doing it for him. And if you and the other Paul trolls are coming here trying to change anyone’s mind about him you are failing bigtime. More that you are trolling your search engines for blogs with posts about the man and invading blogs to suicide bomb any opposing views about him.
See how that works? You are pretty much doing the whole “imperialism/militarism” crap you accuse our nation of doing by invading blogs and insulting anyone that disagrees with you. Hell, I’ll even compare some of you to SEIU thugs by some of the tactics I’ve seen in RonPaul posts. This forum has debates all the time over people and issues, but the Paul groupies are just about the only ones not willing to take their figers out of their ears and stop yelling their nauseating talking points on the man. Listen to Allen West’s speech again. If someone was kicking in the door of my home I’d much rather want West on my side of the door than RonPaul.
If Paul is so darned righteous and perfect why isn’t he taken more seriously? Why isn’t he a louder voice demanding the one thing I agree with him on, investigating the Fed, especially now? He’s not ready for primetime, as the saying goes. RonPaul isn’t nearly as ‘strong’ as you would have us believe he is or he wouldn’t need organized thugs to do his bidding.
The New Paul Panther Party.
As I said in the previous RonPaul post on WZ, RonPaul posts are troll food.
That was elegant Maggie.
nothing like a straw poll to bring out the Ronulan Krazies™. Stick to economics, nutcases
The only time Ron Paul is willing to accept imperialism is probably when it comes to the JIA.
Paulies take themselves far to seriously. They are more kookie than RP himself. Fringes are always populated with moonbats.
Well said Rodger.
But i’am afraid your an imperialist
I was kidding obviously.
The paulnuts need to stfu if you idiots had an problem with imperialism you’d call out islam but no you don’t a big fuck you to Mindy Lou and all the other hypocritical deranged paulnuts.
“Wow, I wrote about a 10k character comment and it went POOF.”
Don’t worry. Nobody was going to read the damn thing anyway.
By the way, Ron Paul supporters? This just in!
It’s not 1787 anymore.
Keep that in mind when you’re touting what the Founding Fathers would or would not do today, and how things have changed since then.
Well said 46 & 2
10K Paulnut comment? TLDR was just waiting to be typed
The silence in the response to Maggie is as true as the statement when liberals and now Paulians go silent, it proves they lost the arguement
46 & 2 -
Get in the habit of writing it on an email window or Word (or whatever you use), then copy/paste. That way if it “poofs” you can copy/paste and try again. I’ve had enough of my stuff eaten by the cyber sharks over the last few yrs.
More likely it might be caught in WZ’s spam can.
Did it have links?
Zip said more than one link usually gets a comment snagged.
paul is a muslim lovin SOB
Paulnuts side with islamic imperialists but not infidel imperialists.
Please let this old man just die.
Note to Paulbots:
They do NOT take ‘straws’ at the voting booths …
Note to Maggie:
Paulnuts do not get along with reality.
As I’ve said before, Ron Paul will never be elected president in this universe ever.
Paultards just can’t accept that ,they have proven time and again that they are simply delusional.
Exactly notice how paulnuts become eerily silent when facts bitchslap them into an political coma.
Ad Hominem anyone? It’s nice to see all the slander and personal attacks here.
I thought only the left did that? Shouldn’t we as conservatives be above that?
Yeah, we bin berry bad.
Cripes …
Here, you dropped your straw.
You guys who agree with YAF are a bunch of brain washed sheep… WAKE UP!!!! If you keep ignoring people like him, then you better get ready for the NWO to shove its dick up you ass I suppose you would rather have Palin as POTUS???? You guys are just drinking from the the same Koolaid as the libtards just a different flavor. Think for yourself for once!
Whateva paulbot.
DohBiden -
See, I was right. Hive of bugs …
“Think for yourself for once!”
Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!