[neb52]

Stupid me!! I forgot us youngling Republicans are suppose to dress like golfers and businessmen. LOL I guess need to return those pairs of baggy cargo shorts and flipflops.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Interesting. But isn't this really '90s "retro"? Wasn't there a "hip" grunge slacker chick calling herself "Kennedy" who used to be on MTV? Wasn't she also a Republican supposedly? Someone on Satuday Night Live did a spoof based on her (Anna Gasteyer maybe). The only thing about that '90s hip grunge slacker Seattle Starbucks schtick was kids in the '70s sported a similar look. Jeans and untucked T-shirts covering bodies that hadn't bathed in weeks. These things go in cycles. Footnote: The music in the '60s and '70s that went along with the look was actually better and more melodious than this atonal whining droning dreck some kids listen to now.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

I think the sartorial lumpenradicals of outrageous wardrobe in the 1600s were known as "the Ranters."

[sackofcatfood]

I wear bowling shoes, jeans, a ThinkGeek shirt and a binary watch. Many times I carry a plunger with me.

What stereotype to I fit in to?

*waits

[John Lenin]

We know that, if these young conservatives could have their way, they'd be wearing topsiders and khakis, slapping around the nearest gay guy they could find.

No, but they might slap you around for calling the bigots.

[longtermmemmory]

from the newspaper that supports disney gaydays? This is nothing more than to "spin" college conservatives as more permissive than normal conservatives. This will gently move them to the leftist regressive ideals.

This gives the "feel" of leftists are worried that they are loosing the message war and there are fewer leftists to carry the torch of socialism.

[stands2reason]

Which is why we still read stories about liberals who are shocked that conservatives are hip or simply that they don't eat their young. This shock translates itself into condescension; conservative success must be attributable to sophisticated string-pullers. Right-wing kids must be dressing like normal students as part of some strategy, not because they're normal kids.

The irony is that this sort of coverage reveals that the liberal establishment is as out of touch as it was in the 1960s. But now the rebels are the conservatives -- which even The New York Times recognizes, finally.

now the rebels are the conservatives

[glory]

College conservatives have learned that by acting like everybody else, they can sway their peers and become the most influential political act on campus."

The article, by John Colapinto, is full of observations like this one: "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."



This just proves that liberals are the ones so into stereotypes. Where have these idiots been? I was not a conservative when I was 18(in 88), but I knew a number of young people who were and *gasp* they dressed like everyone else! It was actually the liberals I knew who would buck the "system" and could not dress appropriately for certain occasions.
Sigh, I guess I'd better go and put on my polo shirt and chinos now so I'll fit in to this writers pigeon hole;-)

[glory]

BTW, I reject this fool's notion that conservatives somehow do this to "fit in" and blend in to get their points across. I can not think of one person who is conservative who purposefully gets up in the morning and says--I'm wearing a peasant shirt and hiphuggers so all the young libs will think me hip and talk to me. Good grief!