The Wit and Humor of College Student Conservatives

self | 05-09-05 | WL-Law

[WL-law]

Freepers would have enjoyed what I saw yesterday at Washington and Lee University.

Undergrads were watching the W&L tennis teams (both the men and women teams) competing in the NCAA Div-III regional tennis championships.

The W&L students were giving a good-natured and witty harrassment to the visiting Emory University team.

I noticed one student in particluar -- he was wearing a red T-shirt with an iconic, black-on-red image on the front.

I recognized that this was the "Che Guevara" design that I've seen before on the internet. But this was different. The face, done in bold black ink in a futurist, Maoist-realist artistic style --was not Che Guevera. No -- instead it was a triumphalist rendition of -- Ronald Reagan!!

What a hoot and a thumb-in-the-eye to college political correctness!!!

[pa mom]

Ah, I remember going to the Old South Ball down there when I was just a slip of a girl. They had to import us then.

I'm so happy to see that there are some conservative kids around. My 13 year old is writing a history paper on Reagan. Makes me one proud mamma. And one feeling old--Reagan, history?

[SMARTY]

'Bout time!

[randog]

I've got one of those shirts. Got my dad one, too.

[R. Scott]

Many (most?) of my female friends are young. We’ll be talking, well – I’ll be reminiscing, they’ll be listening – and one will ask, “When was that?” I’ll reply that it was in the ‘60’s or ‘70’s or even the early ‘80’s. The response is often “WOW! I wasn’t even born yet!”
How to make a 59 year old male feel really old.

[orionblamblam]

[BostonianRightist]

It is a great shirt...

http://www.thoseshirts.com/reaganshirts.html

[pa mom]

Wow, 59?!

Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll be there 'fore long.

[orionblamblam]

[Pyro7480]

I saw someone wearing one of those t-shirts around the time Reagan died. They're great!

[Reagan79]

I have that shirt!

[Larry Lucido]

Many (most?) of my female friends are young.

I think I need to start hanging out with you.

[wideawake]

They should sell ones with an image of Dr. Elias Biscet on them.

[VA_Gentleman]

I went to the Intstitute adjacent to W&L, and that T-shirt is a good one.

[George Smiley]

There are also Guevara shirts lampooning the famous solarized (silk-screen) image that have him wearing Mickey Mouse ears...

[steve-b]

Ronnie's forehead never looked so good....

[R. Scott]

It comes awfully fast once it gets started.

[pa mom]

Thanks a heap! :)

[StoneColdGOP]

I wear this one regularly.

[R. Scott]

Although unintentional, they have a way of making me not only feel my age – but feel absolutely ancient. One of the older women (39 years old) was born the year I went to Viet Nam. The youngest (19) was born the year I retired from the US Army. I feel like a walking history book at times.