Isn't this the "indoctrination" they claim to loathe?

[carrowsboy]

Repsonses to an article based on the Next Generation of Conservatives on college campuses.

http://www.lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=219048


Reply 4 - Posted by: gumbino, 6/13/2005 11:57:28 PM

Hey folks, I helped produce FOUR outstanding young conservative people. (Not all by myself of course --with a little help from spouse and a lot from God.)

All of them stellar students and Bush/Cheney '04 supporters.


Reply 6 - Posted by: flowerladytoo, 6/14/2005 12:06:29 AM

We've produced 3 of these in our family, I'm proud to say
18, 19 and 21 and all rabid Republicans. Drives their liberal friends (and college professers) nuts


Reply 7 - Posted by: starboard, 6/14/2005 6:10:42 AM

Wow! Young Ronald Reagan Republicans...What a breath of fresh air from the smog and pollution from the left. More, I want more.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Forehand, 6/14/2005 7:30:26 AM

Our 19 year old daughter loves Thomas Sowell and counts Milton Friedman as her favorite thinker/writer/economist. Praise God we've done something right. She's in the minority at her university but certainly not alone in conservative views.


Reply 12 - Posted by: bean, 6/14/2005 7:42:29 AM

Mine is a conservative at COUMBIA no less!!!!!!!!
At the time of the election there were Bush Cheney stickers on MOST of the dorm room doors on her hall.
They laugh at old, liberal, grumpy professors.


Reply 13 - Posted by: gop juggernaut redux, 6/14/2005 7:42:33 AM

We are adopting our 15 year old niece from Russia. She has been here a year and my wife and I have gotten her thinking mostly like a conservative.

She was in ESL classes her freshman year and at one point, some bureaucrat came by to check her progress. She was asked a question like "What should we do about poverty" or something like that.

She said she told the lady she didn't know but that taking money away from people who earned it and giving it to people who didn't was unfair.

I had a tear in my eye when she told me that!

Now we just have to make sure her mind isn't altered when she goes to college in three years.


Reply 16 - Posted by: dwillyc, 6/14/2005 8:09:20 AM

I live in a litle red enclave of the bluest of states (MA) Judging from my 16 year old and his friends "the times they are a changin'" for the current establishment. (I love to quote Dylan when predicting Liberal demise!)


Reply 19 - Posted by: brokenglassrep, 6/14/2005 9:30:45 AM

To each of you raising young conservatives, please give yourselves and your children a big bear hug. Y'all will preserve our nation's promise.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Talk2, 6/14/2005 9:46:02 AM

Two grandchildren - a psuedo-liberal and an absolute conservative. The "liberal" has spent hours upon hours on his computer playing games online with Europeans who twisted his mind with their anti-American rhetoric. He is now attending college and all I can do is hope he can resist the liberal brainwashing going on in those halls of learning.

Remember this parents - there is more going on with those online games than playing a game!!!!


Reply 23 - Posted by: rmyersne, 6/14/2005 10:14:53 AM

Proud to say I'm doing my part as a parent. I've got three beautiful girls attending a private Christian grade school. Many of my friends and co-workers think it is a waste of money.

The school held a mock election before the real one last year. President Bush won by 94%. Don't tell me I'm wasting my money!!


Reply 26 - Posted by: steveW, 6/14/2005 10:41:11 AM

Raised 3 young Republicans here, too, but man, has the peer pressure been something to fight against. The Left is nothing if not brilliant at poisoning young minds and corrupting young hearts. I still think the country is in dire peril with the Left so in charge of the schools and universities.


Reply 27 - Posted by: msts, 6/14/2005 10:47:13 AM

The young conservative movement was helped along by 9/11 as was the Reagan Children movement in 1980. Both were results of the perceived and actual weaknesses in American foreign policy. Once someone starts to find a similar voice they then come on board. How many of us find someone who is conservative and immediately we act as if they are long lost cousins? The key is for them to continue to vote and to preach to their friends until they get more in the camp. The incrementalized assault on America took almost 70 years, it could take fifty more to get it back.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Dolley Madison, 6/14/2005 11:09:31 AM

Two young staunch conservatives here, and they are but 2 among many, many home educated students in our state. They also have been taught to think critically, haven taken logic, rhetoric, debate and a course called "Molding Your Argument".

We have a Heritage Foundation intern among our acquaintances, and we send our students to conservative summer programs. They also read the Bible, economics, Hayek, capitalism, Sowell, study the Constitution, etc. There are far too many to list here. They also socialize together, and have the most amazing conversations and discussions. One man overheard them discussing the Bush campaign, and analyzing the left's comments at one point in the campaign -- he told them that they should be talking about girls, and the guys disagreed heartily. There will be plenty of time for that later.

My children will go to an undergrad school that accepts no government money. We've purposely taken no chances in the eudcation of our children, and God has answered our prayers.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Rob Roy, 6/14/2005 11:32:06 AM

As an old member of the New Right (YAF and YRs in the early '70s) it's damn good to see that the torch is being passed on to competent young hands.

Everyone in my house is GOP-registered, little red dots in a sea of blue here in Blue York City.

My younger, college-age son is quite political, and seems to have absorbed most of Dear Old Dad's biases, including being able to tell the Good Guys (Gipper, Dubya, Murdoch and Blue York's savior, Rudy) from the baddies (Billary, The Gigolo, Teddy K, Fatboy Sharpton, Dan Blather, etc).


Reply 36 - Posted by: JLoophole, 6/14/2005 12:19:54 PM

My daughter, soon to be a college sophomore, has already decided to name one of her children Reagan. So has her roommate! They are dead serious.


Reply 42 - Posted by: tukaram, 6/14/2005 2:38:33 PM

At an elite Eastern liberal woman's college, my daughter had just entered her sophomore year, when her freshman Marxist economics professor saw her on an outdoor bench reading. He asked her what she was reading, and she lifted up the book so he could see it: Capitalism and Freedom, by Milt Friedman. I will treasure that image all my life.


Reply 45 - Posted by: avogadro, 6/14/2005 4:15:11 PM

3 conservative sons here!

They have flown in under the radar of their leftist professors and are converting their classmates---one liberal at a time!

Their stories about classroom PC strong-arm tactics would curl your hair...fortunately they are pursuing degrees that have much less PC indoctrination than the social sciences (e.g Business and Biochemistry)

We know an young intern on her way to Washington....she is incredibly bright, beautiful, talented, a persuasive communicator and a HARD-CORE conservative.

I hope that one of my sons has the foresight to 'court' this wonderful young lady...

I can dream.....right?


Reply 50 - Posted by: thewarden, 6/14/2005 6:44:06 PM

I regret that I have only one future conservative child to offer to my Country! But, he's going to be a great one! I was so proud the day he started a Bush!Bush!Bush! chant at the lunch table in 2nd grade (during the 2000 election nonsense). You have to start them young! This article is heartening.

[lollipop]

1. These people scare me,

I can't wait for the tide to turn blue, so that these mindless cons will be forced to hide in there cults.

[HockeyMom]

2. Sermon on the Mount

When they came to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we have only a 4 fishes and a few loaves of bread, not enough to feed all the people here who are hungry." Jesus multiplied the food and feed all the hungry people.

Sorry, to quote that for people who are not Christian, but these people above are no Christians (I work hard for my money, why should I give it to anybody else mentality).

[kcass1954]

3. Well, touch your tit!

I've managed to raise one pacifist Democrat. And not because I've "made" him into one or indoctrinated him or because he always does what I say. He is what he is because I've taught and encouraged him to pay attention to what's going on in the world, and then make up his own mind about what he thinks is best.

[NorCalDem]

4. Thats the worst part.

They're "making" conservatives by teaching them to not listen or pay attention to what is going on around them. We "make" liberals by simply doing nothing, just encouraging exploration and a sharp mind, reading all you can, trusting nothing until you've done your homework, etc., etc. It's just a shame that there are so many out there who don't get it, being a sheep is NOT enlightening or cool. Being a sheep is just that, a dumb animal that gets f*cked by the man.