The Right's New Wing (HOW CONSERVATIVES ARE TAKING ON HIGHER ED LIBERALS)

TIME ^ | Sunday, August 22, 2004 | John Cloud

[LongsforReagan]

I got so enthused reading the hard copy of this at the airport, I actually bought Time, which I consider a slightly better rag than Newspeak.

[escapefromboston]

ping a roo

[ClearCase_guy]

When I spoke with her in March, Barlas told me it was her department's role to challenge students with perspectives they won't get elsewhere. "If they are coming from a group who has a President in power, can they really claim to be oppressed and marginalized?" she asked.

Is THAT how it works? Today I am oppresed and marginalized ... and the election returns are in ... and ... I am no longer oppressed and marginalized!

And Blacks were apparently not oppressed and marginalized during most of the 1990s -- though I remember many of them talking as if they were ...

[fuzzy122]

MEGA-

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[Pyro7480]

Thank you so much for posting this.

He then proffered some incendiary flyers that the foundation recommends as ads. "What does a woman REALLY want?" asks a flyer promoting a 2000 speech at the University of Delaware by conservative Michelle Easton. The answer: "Husband. Children. Picket Fence."

I was the vice-chairman of the organization at the University of Delaware that sponsored this speech. It was the chairman, a fiery red-headed coed, who produced the flier.

[KC_Conspirator]

The student, Shelley Facente, tried to report the statement to a campus police officer as a "bias-related incident." The cop refused to take her report, citing free-speech protections, but her attempt to bring the statement before an administrative board became a national story.

Modern wearers of armbands. Instead of having an acompanying oom-pa-pa band they carry rainbow and green flags.

[justshutupandtakeit]

"Conservatives" attacking Bush suuure they are, TIME.

[sc2_ct]

Thanks for posting this, from what I got to read so far, it appears to a very up-lifting article. Bump for later.

[Pyro7480]

Time is using true conservative dissent for their political agenda.

[LincolnLover]

A surprisingly well-written, well-balanced account by Time.

Keep hope alive! I definitely relate to those described in this article. Good to see the future of the party's leadership is coming up the right...err, Right way!!

[justshutupandtakeit]

No it is using pseudo-conservative bilge for its agenda.

[Pyro7480]

It depends on how your define "conservative."

[Stellar Dendrite]

bump

[spodefly]

To be sure, the conservative movement has been growing among students for decades ...

Especially since 1973 ...

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

William Buckley Jr is not my idea of a Conservative. Anyone with pro-dope views is a dope himself, and not worthy to be called a Conservative. Bzzzt! Next!

[ApesForEvolution]

BTTT

[Seydlitz]

A superb article. I'm a grad student, and I teach some undergraduate classes. It is definitely true that students today are much more conservative. It's funny to hear the professors and other grad students complain about it.

However, this article is also a sad reminder of what a terrible campaign Bush is running. The whole gay marriage issue cost him a ton of support among these kids. The fact is, they all have gay friends, and none of them want to be seen as supporting legislation targeted at their friends. Likewise, the War on Drugs is also a huge negative. These kids do not appreciate being harrassed and/or jailed by 97 different federal and state agencies over the occasional bong hit.

The conservatism of these kids is based primarily on small government, and secondarily on a strong defense. This second point is also a sore one with these kids. Dubya & Co. have done a pathetic job of selling the war in Iraq. Absent a strong and consistent argument to the contrary, they are too apt to believe the defeatist slop fed to them by the press and their professors.

[Tamzee]

Interesting and inspiring in some parts, but many aspects were pointed at splitting conservatives supporting Bush.

Clinton actually stated in an interview not too long ago that Democrats had to try to keep Bush from rallying his conservative base... looks like Time, New York Times, LA Times, etc, all got the message because we are seeing a long line of articles bloviating in depth about conservative wedge issues.

[Digger]

this article is also a sad reminder of what a terrible campaign Bush is running

I sure agree with you. But look at the alternative then wonder what it would be like if we didn't have a "Two-Party Cartel" lowering our leadership each & every election.

[hchutch]

I think that the dominant part of the Republican Party will ultimately be the "South Park" wing, or, as P.J. O'Rourke calls them, the "Republican Party Reptiles."

The two parties are somewhat overdue for a major realignment, I think. I dislike both Hillary Clinton *and* Michelle Malkin. I shudder at the thought of Tom Tancredo as President just as much as I shudder at the thought of John Kerry as President. I think that both Sarah Brady and Jack Thompson are full of crap on guns and violent video games (yes, I am an unrepentant "Wolfenstein 3D" player), respectively. I do not want people trying to force their dislikes of certain radio shows, be it Howard Stern OR Rush Limbaugh (I listen to both on occasion).

Where exactly does a person like me fit in?