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The original article is fascinating. It written with the typical left-wing bias but what it DOESN't say is almost as interesting as what it does.

I'm 26 and I was apolitical until after college. I have to say is that many, many liberals my age are very, very ignorant.

Some of the stuff that the original article said is very true about people my age and younger. I think some of the stuff about the clothes rings with the fact that many young people do not associate freaky clothes (and piercings) with evil or immoral behavior. Someone could be a wonderful person and have a nose ring and wear leather. Also conservatives in their twenties (at least in the Northeast) are far less concerned about gays. That part of the article was spot on. They might not approve on a personal level, but do not thing it's the government's business telling people what they can or can not do in their bedroom.

I was at a Young Republican's meeting where this thirty-something loser was giving all the youngins' a hard time for not wearing ties. All the young people were laughing at him.

I know what you mean! I just graduated from college, and I was the head of the local Young Americans for Freedom chapter. The only time I wore suits in any club function was when we brought speakers in or when I went to CPAC. Most of the time, I wore t-shirts, cargo pants or semi-baggy jeans, and "skater" sneakers, and when it got cooler, and threw on a hooded sweatjacket. This was what many of friends in garage bands (most of the liberal) wore. I must have gotten on some people's nerves, for the must have seen it me being a "poseur" or something, when it was nothing of the sort. I went to Catholic schools in grade and high school, and I had to wear dress shirts, ties, and dress pants all the time. I was glad to take a break from that in colllege. Now that I'm working full-time, it's back to suits again. But I still like wearing casual clothes like that.

Besides clothes, I listen to punk, emo, emocore, mainstream rock, "alternative," and Jimi Hendrix/Led Zeppelin/other rock classics. I like to watch anime. Most of my friends have leftist viewpoints. So I guess I'm a "Hip-Publican," or rather, a "hip conservative."

I was at a Young Republican's meeting where this thirty-something loser was giving all the youngins' a hard time for not wearing ties. All the young people were laughing at him.

Yeah, I only wish the old farts at CPAC would drop the suit and tie requirement. That's soooooo Eisenhower era, yo!