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College Republicans tackle wrong issues
Northernstar of Northern Illinois University ^ | March 2, 2006 | Paul Lalonde

Posted on 03/06/2006 8:30:38 PM PST by metalmanx2j

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1 posted on 03/06/2006 8:30:40 PM PST by metalmanx2j
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>>>>Rather than advancing conservative ideology or standing up to liberal detractors, the leadership of the CR has regularly and cowardly shied away from any such confrontations. Instead, the CR has focused on helping politicians win elections.

Sounds like the Kalifornia GOP.

2 posted on 03/06/2006 8:33:47 PM PST by Reagan Man (Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
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"Rather than advancing conservative ideology or standing up to liberal detractors, the leadership of the CR has regularly and cowardly shied away from any such confrontations. Instead, the CR has focused on helping politicians win elections."

And getting good educations to prepare them for business or government work... it's been kind of effective too considering how few people called themselves Republican in the 70's and how that has changed.


3 posted on 03/06/2006 8:35:27 PM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: metalmanx2j

Most of these outfits are social clubs or networking efforts to enhance one's career. It has been that way since rocks cooled.


4 posted on 03/06/2006 8:35:30 PM PST by Torie
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To: metalmanx2j

The title you created has been changed to the original published title.

Please do not alter titles. Thanks.


5 posted on 03/06/2006 8:38:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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I tried to get involved with the College Republican'ts at my university on several occasions, and I was blown off each time. They were more interested in getting involved in local elections, networking, and schmoozing with each and every Big Time Conservative (Ann Coulter, especially!) that came to our kkkampus.

Whenever the school had debates and "roundtable discussions", at the alumni house, I was the only Conservative to show up, most of the time. I thought it would be better if there was a greater representation of the "other" point of view; that it would allow for more spirited debate... (instead of just me slapping around professors who were completely unprepared for any form of opposition.)

7 posted on 03/06/2006 8:46:30 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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My opinion is that today's conservative students don't have the time nor don't want to be bothered with "activism" and just want to hurry up and finish their education.
8 posted on 03/06/2006 8:47:07 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're Americans, we can do anything)
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To: William Creel
The University of Chicago college was an odd place, very odd, back when rocks were still hot. The place really had no effectual Dem or GOP clubs at all. It seemed, so well, what those more interested in trivial pursuits would do. Having said that, I was a GOP poll watcher in 1970 or so in a mayor's race, in a precinct deep in the black ghetto. I was as scared as hell. But the Dem poll workers in the precinct were even more scared of this black guy there they didn't know. They kept asking if I knew who he was. They were concerned he was with the FBI, sent there to sic them by the Nixon administration.

And there you have it.

9 posted on 03/06/2006 8:48:49 PM PST by Torie
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When I was a member of the College Republicans, we were a very effective force for Benjamin Harrison's campaign.


10 posted on 03/06/2006 8:49:48 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (DUCK FOOK!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Don't you miss the boomers? We really didn't think about those things in college much (except the pre-med and hard science types), at least not those of us in those more elite insulated places. We really didn't.


11 posted on 03/06/2006 8:51:24 PM PST by Torie
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The U of NC GOP club probably was a much more promising place to hook up with something appetizing than the University of Chicago. In fact, I am sure of it. :)


12 posted on 03/06/2006 8:53:19 PM PST by Torie
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Send your kids here:

No fed funds.

13 posted on 03/06/2006 8:54:13 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect, it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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The U of NC GOP club probably was a much more promising place to hook up with something appetizing than the University of Chicago. In fact, I am sure of it. :)

Vanderbilt, actually. By the time I went to grad school at UNC, I didn't have much time for politics.

14 posted on 03/06/2006 8:57:36 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (DUCK FOOK!)
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Vanderbilt sounds even more promising. :) I read a couple of years ago in the WSJ, that Vanderbilt is really going all out to import some smart students via monetary incentives, big ones. Can a smart intellectual Yankee Jew find happiness at Vanderbilt? That was in part what the article was about. It seemed to be a bit of heavy lifting.


16 posted on 03/06/2006 9:00:41 PM PST by Torie
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To: William Creel

The outfit probably scrimped on the legal fees to retain a competent lawyer. That is always a mistake. :)


17 posted on 03/06/2006 9:02:12 PM PST by Torie
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I am a current member of my college republicans and I gave the group my email address and paid the fee, but I have not been contacted, otherwise you can be sure as hell Id be out there doing my part.

Then again, I do go to Ole Miss where liberals dont seem to be too rampant (other than the taking away of our mascot, damn chancellor...).


18 posted on 03/06/2006 9:10:04 PM PST by gun_supporter
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To: William Creel; Torie
The UNC College Republican club, as you have probably seen, is planning a demonstration against UNC's administration for their failure to characterize the recent assault on students (the SUV driven by a Muslim extremist into "the Pit," a popular campus gathering place) as terrorism, which it clearly was.

The concern of UNC's administration (Erskine Bowles is now President of the University system) for political correctness led not only to the shying away of the terrorist label in the recent incident, but also to a public rebuke of the student newspaper (the Daily Tar Heel) for publishing a student-drawn editorial cartoon purporting tom show the image of the prophet Mohammad.

I have suggested to the UNC administration that they take the next logical step to avoid offending Muslims. It seems to me likely that the word "Chapel" might be offensive to them; I therefore recommended that they consider changing the name of the campus to the University of North Carolina at Mosque Hill.

I'll let you know if my suggestion is accepted.

19 posted on 03/06/2006 9:14:10 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (DUCK FOOK!)
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LOL.


20 posted on 03/06/2006 9:16:12 PM PST by Torie
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