Posted on 03/06/2006 8:30:38 PM PST by metalmanx2j
Sounds like the Kalifornia GOP.
"Rather than advancing conservative ideology or standing up to liberal detractors, the leadership of the CR has regularly and cowardly shied away from any such confrontations. Instead, the CR has focused on helping politicians win elections."
And getting good educations to prepare them for business or government work... it's been kind of effective too considering how few people called themselves Republican in the 70's and how that has changed.
Most of these outfits are social clubs or networking efforts to enhance one's career. It has been that way since rocks cooled.
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Whenever the school had debates and "roundtable discussions", at the alumni house, I was the only Conservative to show up, most of the time. I thought it would be better if there was a greater representation of the "other" point of view; that it would allow for more spirited debate... (instead of just me slapping around professors who were completely unprepared for any form of opposition.)
And there you have it.
When I was a member of the College Republicans, we were a very effective force for Benjamin Harrison's campaign.
Don't you miss the boomers? We really didn't think about those things in college much (except the pre-med and hard science types), at least not those of us in those more elite insulated places. We really didn't.
The U of NC GOP club probably was a much more promising place to hook up with something appetizing than the University of Chicago. In fact, I am sure of it. :)
No fed funds.
Vanderbilt, actually. By the time I went to grad school at UNC, I didn't have much time for politics.
Vanderbilt sounds even more promising. :) I read a couple of years ago in the WSJ, that Vanderbilt is really going all out to import some smart students via monetary incentives, big ones. Can a smart intellectual Yankee Jew find happiness at Vanderbilt? That was in part what the article was about. It seemed to be a bit of heavy lifting.
The outfit probably scrimped on the legal fees to retain a competent lawyer. That is always a mistake. :)
I am a current member of my college republicans and I gave the group my email address and paid the fee, but I have not been contacted, otherwise you can be sure as hell Id be out there doing my part.
Then again, I do go to Ole Miss where liberals dont seem to be too rampant (other than the taking away of our mascot, damn chancellor...).
The concern of UNC's administration (Erskine Bowles is now President of the University system) for political correctness led not only to the shying away of the terrorist label in the recent incident, but also to a public rebuke of the student newspaper (the Daily Tar Heel) for publishing a student-drawn editorial cartoon purporting tom show the image of the prophet Mohammad.
I have suggested to the UNC administration that they take the next logical step to avoid offending Muslims. It seems to me likely that the word "Chapel" might be offensive to them; I therefore recommended that they consider changing the name of the campus to the University of North Carolina at Mosque Hill.
I'll let you know if my suggestion is accepted.
LOL.
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