Slate: No Fight Left (College Republicans' identity crisis)

[marmar]

In my lifetime, I don't think I've ever encountered a more idiotic, unevolved group of Cro-Magnons than College Repugs. :freak: :freak: :dunce: :dunce: - OP's special commentary.



No Fight Left
Just like grown-up Republicans, College Republicans face an identity crisis.

By Lydia DePillis
Posted Monday, June 8, 2009, at 10:15 AM ET


The College Republican National Committee is a famously cutthroat operation. Karl Rove and Lee Atwater learned the ropes there in the 1970s, dragging then-RNC Chairman George H.W. Bush into a disputed election. More recently, two people you never heard of (at least until their campaign was hilariously recounted in the New Republic) spent several hundred thousand dollars in a bare-knuckled fight for chairman.

By historical standards, then, this year's convention, which took place last week at the Renaissance Marriott in Washington, D.C., was tame. There was only one contested race—for the Midwestern regional chair, fought with Midwestern collegiality—and no constitutional amendments to debate. This uncharacteristic politesse could not have come at a worse time: the first convention in the age of Obama, the first in eight years without a Republican in the White House. After an election in which young voters went 2-1 for the Democrat, colleges Baracked the vote, and Sarah Palin was trotted out as a role model for youth, what's a young conservative to do?

According to those headlining the conference, who ranged from the baby-faced Rep. Aaron Schock, 28, to the rapidly fossilizing Phyllis Schlafly, 75, the party needs to diversify. Get back to principles. And, oh, use Twitter.

On the first point: Most speakers exhorted the students to recruit more black and Hispanic members, to get outside the stuffy-white-guy stereotype that follows the party like a shadow. This became especially awkward at Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's keynote speech, where seven white guys—including the College Republican of the Year, white guy Leigh Wolf—sat on the dais to his right. Last year's national leadership had three women; this year's has none. According to those present, in his speech, RNC Chairman Michael Steele singled out the one black woman in the room for special recognition. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.slate.com/id/2219989/?from=rss

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Phyllis Schlafly's been around 75 for 30-40 years now, hasn't she?

[zbdent]

4. Isn't she one of the "Young Republicans"?

[TlalocW]

5. You knowif Phyllis had just followed her own advice

And just stayed home like a woman is supposed to, maybe she could have kept her son from turning gay.

I love saying that to conservatives following up with, "Since we know that being gay is a choice and not genetic, Phyllis - along with other notable conservatives like Cheney, Keyes, Randall Terry, etc. - must be among the worst kind of parents in your eyes."

I used that on a conservative co-worker who then refused to talk to me for a month. :)

TlalocW

[Stellabella]

6. Heh - that's priceless!

I wish some man had told her to get back to the kitchen and take off her shoes. After all, that's what she wanted every OTHER woman to do - just not herself.

[47of74]

2. Other things have taken the wind out of the College / Young Republican sails

Such as the one guy who went to work on a sleeping buddy of his;

http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2007/08/questions-surround-rising-indiana-gop.html

Or the former Iowa College Republican big-wig who got busted on sex charges;

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/75094/

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Awww, so sad.