[annyokie]

It's hip to be square.

[LibFreeUSA]

HOLIDAY DMITRI is a freelance writer and editor with more
than 10 years of editorial experience, specializing
in media and popular culture, arts and entertainment,
and feature writing. She has a keen interest
in both counterculture and mainstream culture,
and their influence in today's conservative youth movement.

[leadpencil1]

ping

[maica]

I have watched this transition since the campaign of 2000. The ivied professors and the dem political consultants are not going to know what hits them this summer and next fall.

[KantianBurke]

Depends on what kind of Republicans they are. If its a Rockefeller generation that's coming then this is worse news than hearing they're Liberman supporters.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - EDUCATION - CONSERVATIVES

[sweetliberty]

"He believes that campus conservatives — those misled souls! — are being exploited by rapacious right-wing think tanks and leadership organizations, serving as mouthpieces for their political agenda."

Of course, no leftist, Marxist organizations or professors would ever do such a thing as to exploit impressionable young people to promote their political agenda from their bully pulpit of the classroom. < /sarcasm >

[sweetliberty]

I find this article somewhat heartening since my daughter just started college yesterday and her interest is in sociology. Yeah, yeah. I know. but at least she shares her ideas with me and has respect for my opinions.

[metesky]

Believe it or not, the old National Lampoon predicted this thirty years ago.

[fella]

The kids aren't as dunb as they are trained to be by their teachers. They know that they are being oppressed and brainwashed by the education "system" and the dictates of political correctness and this is their reaction.

[MattAMiller]

Should this stuff be that suprising? Is it really that confounding that a person could have a taste for large portions of popular culture and support cuts to the marginal tax rate?

Articles like this pop up from time to time the idea being that it's a totally new thing for young people to be conservative. But youthful fixation with leftist causes was a product of a certain period of time and not nearly as widespread as many would have us believe.

[HungarianGypsy]

I wish the same could be said of all the younger generation. I was reading a blog yesterday where some 18 year old thought herself an intellectual, since she hates Bush. She could not understand how the adults could be so blind and stupid to have ever voted him in in the first place. (she only spoke of the few general liberal statements) This from a child who was being potty trained when I first started learning about government.

[Rainmist]

Well, I've contributed to the Republican party - both my young kids think conservative. They love Bush. My daughter loves to mess with a friend of hers whose parents are stupid DemoRats. LOL.