[rattrap]

I see this all the time, I dress like a young person (I am a relatively young person) and people automatically assume(often) that I'm all about their hippie politics. It's fun though, I often get to give them an earful.

[Constitution Day]

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[Mr. Mojo]

I'm a blues musician, and when people who hang in those circles find out I'm a conservative it blows their mind.

[Future Snake Eater]

"Today, most campus conservatives who hope to be effective won't dress like George Bush or Dick Cheney. The idea is to dress like a young person."

"Because everyone knows they're not actually human! Merely facsimiles!"

Gawd, I hate commies! They're so f-in' stupid!

[Billthedrill]

What is happening I predicted years ago - the self-congratulatory, self-aggrandizing left, always correct, always hip, always rebellious and romantic, has evolved, over time, into the boring, lockstep, conformist establishment that they used to mock. Youth has a natural affinity for outsiders, and they quite correctly judge (despite vociferous denials on the part of the rapidly ossifying left) that the outsiders are, at the present, politically conservative. Some, I'm sure, are only doing it to irritate their Greenpeace-bumper-sticker-bearing parents. For others it's a more permanent thing. Politics is a pendulum.

[jjm2111]

People would have a hard time telling my politics by the way I dress. I hardly ever wear a tie at work, much less at play. (Though I can do the full Brooks Brothers thing if I have to.)

Some of my snowboarder friends are total hippy libs and it's fun arguing politics with them. They think Noam Chomsky is the best philospher since, like, you know.

[Drew68]

It's fun though, I often get to give them an earful.

How true! I'm 34 and can count the occasions I've worn a suit on one hand.

I remember the College Republicans at CSU twelve years ago. They all thought they had to dress like Alex P. Keaton --everyday, all the time.

[Chi-townChief]

You should have been around in the 60s and 70s. When you came up with some conservatism, the hippies would get extremely pissed. I guess they had figured that long hair and bell bottoms automatically meant that you were a lefty.

[RogueIsland]

Liberals need to get hip to young conservatives

Yeah, stop being such total Clydes and Harveys, ya' squares.

[ScottinSacto]

This article is about the stupidest thing I've seen all week, besides the reporters on tv talking about Scott Petersens makeover again.

It is not what you do or what you wear, it is what you think. Why is it the libs are so pissed of about profiling, yet they pass judgement based on stereotypical things such as jeans and a haircut?

I have a serious tie collection and wear suits that make women drool. I have the coolest sunglasses on the planet, and my hair ranges from buzz to surfer. I could be as hip or sloppy as I want to be, and it won't change that I think Gore was an idiot and that Bush is the man.

All that aside, I am ranging towards the surfer haircut and it is driving me crazy in the heat. My barber, the only person who has EVER cut my hair, had a serious stroke last month and isn't cutting hair right now or anymore I fear. So if anyone in the Sacto regional area has a good one, please FReepmail me with contact info...or if you are a barber even better!