Great article. Had a freshman student in a elective history course last week. Yarmulke, "Support the IDF" tee-shirt and biggest d***n Kerry button I ever saw. When I laughingly told him he was a walking contradiction, he went spastic and yelled "What has George Bush DONE FOR ISRAEL??!!" I tried to explain (my mistake) and he started spouting off about how Clinton had brought "peace". Guess my friends in the IDF are just confused.
This election has convinced me that Robert Heinlein was right about who should vote(the book, not the movie).
I once had a similar experience. I was taking a class in Biblical Hebrew at a typical mainstream "liberal" university, and this Jewish kid (kippah and all) was wearing all these far left, new age, vegetarian, and "gay rights" buttons. And then he was shocked--shocked, I tell you!--by the professor's theory of the Torah's origin (he even challenged the professor by pointing out that the documentary hypothesis was contrary to the traditional Jewish understanding).
I looked at all pink triangles and animal rights buttons this guy was wearing and thought, "Oh really? Do tell!"