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May 25, 2003
Care Bears and Ninja Turtles
This humorous NYT Magazine article about the Hipublicans raises a few questions. Do even those in favor of more gun ownership want guns viewed as toys in their mickey mouse, care bears, and TMNT holsters? Probably not.
On a less serious note, it's nice to hear a young hipublican girl say she doesn't want to have kids, since I don't want her to be a mother. Seriously though, does the NYT Magazine seriously believe that conservatives of this type are really springing up on campus? These kids are the crazy fanatical shouting on rooftop types, not much different (barring ideology) than the lefties lampooned in PCU.
If other loonies want to join the fun, go ahead. As for the girl who says there are plenty of pro-life Republicans, maybe in Colorado but not in Georgia. Most college kids I meet are pretty fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I can see how some of them are drifting to the Republicans and most are staying apolitical, since the Democratic party doesn't really know what it stands for right now, but as soon as the Democrats get a charismatic candidate offering a realistic change to the status quo, that's where the big momentum will be.
All in all, what's so impressive about a bunch of rightwing goons who publish money losing papers that faraway wealthy donors support. Sounds more like the Nation than the Wall Street Journal to me.
Posted by Chris at May 25, 2003 10:46 PM
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