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A lot of people change their opinions after college.

Other folks in college are just good at regurgitating the liberal pablum that their professors feed them, so they can get the grades needed to graduate.

By itself, a socialist college thesis doesn’t indicate very much about someone’s thoughts now and sometimes even their thoughts then.

I remember an “A+” political science paper I wrote 33 years ago in school, the professor was really impressed by my trotskyite voice.

“A lot of people change their opinions after college.”

Very true. I voted for Clinton in 1992 when I was a senior in high school, and again in 1996 in my senior year of college. My next vote was for GW Bush, but only reluctantly...because he wasn’t nearly conservative enough.

To my eternal shame, I voted for Anderson instead of Reagan when I was an undergrad in 1980.

Voted Reagan the second time around, though. Had wised up some by then.

A lot of people change their opinions after college.

And they are typically known as Republicans.

Or are you seriously trying to give a BamBam court pick the, ahem, benefit of the doubt?

Yes, but these people in particular, have not. I am acquainted with someone who, it turns out, was at Princeton at the same time as Idiot-girl Kagan, and I am told that she has not changed a whit - under it all she's still the same self-centered, immature teenager with a chip on her shoulder as she was when she was at Princeton. It's understandable that an 18 to 20 year-old would be self-absorbed, think they were the victim of it all, and want to "change" the world radically; it's disgusting when a 40 to 50 year old engages in the same tired, immature behaviour and demonstrates that they are utterly incapable of changing in the face of reality or facts because they are still the same angst-ridden twit they were 20 to 30 years ago. Kagan is still the same angst-ridden teenager she was 30 years ago. She is clearly intelligent, but she has used that intelligence unwisely, as a means of refusing to acknowledge reality or to change her immature twenty-something political beliefs in the face of clear factual evidence that those beliefs are wrong. She will do lasting damage to this country and to the Supreme Court if she is permitted to sit on that bench.

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A lot of people change their opinions after college.

Quite true.

However, most of them are the people who get jobs and raise families and find out that their socialistic college opinions were a pipe dream when faced with the realities of being self-sufficient and responsible.

OTOH - those who go into "public service" or teaching or similar government jobs, never have to face up to the idiocy of their socialist college beliefs.

Which only increase in lunacy as the years go by.

>>>A lot of people change their opinions after college.>>

True, but a lot don't. What evidence do we have that Kagan has changed her views?

For that matter - what evidence do we have that you have changed yours - you seem to be lobbying, somewhat obliquely, but lobbying non-the-less, for the confirmation of an entirely leftist ideologue on the court.

Unfortunately, I have little confidence that the Repubs have the stomach to grill her hard on her beliefs - which have been kept purposely and carefully hidden in the cloak of academia. Same goes for her sexual leanings - she may be the first BD on the USSC.