Generation Chickenhawk: a look at The College Republicans

My gaydar must be broken

because it's pointing so far to the left it must be an error. Right?

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by: Pta @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 11:10:53 AM CDT

What a bunch of pussies!

Sorry, but these Young Committed Rethuglicans are nothing but a bunch of chicken shits.  If they feel so strongly that we must fight them over there then they should be there fighting.  Quite frankly none of them stuck me as having the raw courage it would take to get shot at.  They are nothing more than shills for their rich mommies and daddies that want everyone else to fight for their freedoms.

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by: dcmsufan @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 11:24:02 AM CDT

single?

Max Blumenthal is great- does anyone know if he's single?  I have such a crush on him!

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by: Nel Bot @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 11:28:52 AM CDT

Just viewed this over at HP

Yes, it is amazing the "medical excuses" used for not fighting in the war.  COWARDS they certainly are.

Meanwhile, Max is cute.  Hope he's in the LA area.  ;-)
I have a crush on him, too!

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by: Juan @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 13:55:47 PM CDT

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I love Max Blumenthal.

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by: Holly Capote @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 11:29:05 AM CDT

what a waste

of spaces in universities.

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by: HDBiker @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 11:32:19 AM CDT

no kidding

They would be much better used as decoys.

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by: JoshWatermanMN @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 11:34:54 AM CDT

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I can't ever forget the young republican I saw on Who Wants To Be

A Millionaire. He was a sharp-looking young stockbroker in red suspenders.  He went down in flames on the very first question.  He used up all of his lifelines before giving the wrong answer.  The question: What kind of animal did Hannibal use to cross the Alps?  He chose rhino.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

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by: drosophila @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 19:58:45 PM CDT

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I bet they all post at Freepi,

  and ask Mr.President at WND.

 

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 12:08:12 PM CDT

If they reinstated the draft,

how many of these folks do you think would be getting deferments?  Do you think it would be anything less than 80%?

(And I totally stole this idea and the clip.  So there!)

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by: Jami @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 12:29:31 PM CDT

A few things came to mind watching this.

1) I laughed, I cried, I hurled. (Thank you Wayne)

2) They were the same kids that were born of the national party hierarchy that I saw in 1985. (The lower echelon stalwarts patriotically joined the SAP to duck the possibility of ending up in Angola or some such place).

I would say that you should give them to the people of Iraq and let them do a reconciliation.

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by: Carbonchild @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 13:22:04 PM CDT

The New Rebels

I teach in a department that draws more than its share of wingers and fundies. My take, from discussions with them, is that many of them are motivated by the same adolescent impulses that in a different era would have turned them into hippies.  They've been convinced that the real hegemony is "political correctness," and by being right-wing they think they're being rebels against the machine.

The level of deception and self-deception is discombobulating. 

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by: Diogenes @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 13:39:04 PM CDT

The new rebels continued

Yes I see this happening at my college as well.

And unlike what some have said here. These kids are not the sons and daughters of rich families. The scary thing is that the majority of these young republicans are middle or lower class.

Unlike those y-r's that may be rich, these young people are drawn in with the false idea that because they are almost entirely white (and many male)the "political correctness" of the liberal left is a direct attack against them. They are fed a diet of the victim hood of the white middle class male, by the handlers of and recruiters from these groups. And the same time they are taught that liberals are controlled by minority groups that seek to limit the options of the white middle class Christians.

There was a recent episode at Michigan State University with a more radical branch of a young republican group. They held "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" (were members went around town hunting down anyone who looked "Mexican.") Because of this and other actions (including a small riot) the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled them a hate group. 

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by: Matt's Zoo @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 16:45:23 PM CDT

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And The Truth Comes Out

If you accept it, then you just suppress your feelings and you pray about it to God and you know that you are not, you're so much stronger as a person.

From the mouths of babes. 

The truth is that the fundies would much rather have people suppress their feelings than to be honest with themselves.  All so the fundies can have their lovely little delusion that being gay is just an "immoral choice"...

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by: Grog @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 13:59:27 PM CDT

OMG!

The inarticulate "not gay" but curious kid is HILARIOUS! And, tragic.

I met several just like him when I was in college. It is sad to see that things haven't changed much for these poor, tortured souls over the past 25 years.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 14:37:48 PM CDT

"Tommy D"

  We really should thank Tom Delay for his insight. It is so very true that the 40 million abortions that have been performed (in the past 30 years), if born,could have taken the place of the hard working men and women that we now call illegal. We gladly pay sub-standard wages to so that that the piece of fruit you are about to eat only cost 50 cents. So is "Tommy D" really saying that we should all follow his lead in selling our children into mediocrity and sud-standard wages?

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by: Onemancomotion @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 16:16:46 PM CDT

BRAVO Max

Going right into the belly of the beast, but you should have kicked the little thug who man-handled you out the door, squarely in his crotch!
It was hillarious all their excuses why they can't/won't serve....CHICKEN SH*TS!

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by: underbear1 @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 18:50:13 PM CDT

Rah, rah, rah!

1. College Republicans are nothing but a little cheerleading squad.  Sure we all support the troops, but not in the same fashion of the CR with their little pom poms.

2. "I don't mind gays having regular privileges because they are citizens and all, but they should not receive special privileges above everyone else."

What about some special privileges that the hets receive, like "marriage" and "hate crime protections" because of their faith?

3. "That's not what we were made for. God didn't create us to be gay."

God didn't make us to be ignorant, but this prude is anyway.

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by: Blood From Machines @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 19:02:30 PM CDT

"Regular privileges"

Interesting world view when they regard civil rights as "regular privileges".

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by: Stephanie, in Victoria @ Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 23:28:39 PM CDT

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These little repugs actually got into college?

Like, if that guy, like, becomes a great speaker and stuff, like, I think people will listen to him because, like, he is so like, cool and stuff.  Yeah.  And like, I never had an inclination towards the same sex, like, but like, I have been curious as have most people.  Like, I think his like, inclination was a little bit stronger than an honest curiosity and stuff.  If I like, did have a like inclination, I might like, be gay.  Like, like him.  And like, maybe if he took an anthropolgy class or a sociology class, he might like, see that like, the world is not as small as like, Americans think it is and stuff, and like, it's our culture that deems gay people as evil and stuff, not some guy in like a robe sitting in heaven and stuff.

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by: lunawolf @ Sat Jul 21, 2007 at 01:39:36 AM CDT