Comments on: Campus conservatives…

By: beverly

beverly — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:54:26 +0000

I’m starting to come out of the closet here in Manhattan more and more. Because I’m fed up to the back teeth with the self-righteous lefty asshats. I just emailed a classics prof. whom I’ve known for many years that I’ve become an “unreconstructed g-d Goldwater Republican!” and to my amazement, he didn’t even remark on it. The friend I went to the movies with revealed that she’s an independent, not into the whole Party thing on either side (she grew up in Cambridge, Mass., so this is rather remarkable).

I will keep doing it. Because life is too damned short to live it all under the bed, and because if we don’t speak up, who will?

BTW, I don’t think it’s analogous to the whole civil rights thing — it’s that WE are the only ones fighting for AMERICA AS SHE WAS MEANT TO BE. Land of the FREE; home of the BRAVE.

THEY are fighting to impose tyranny — of the soft and strangling kind. So it’s not like being “just one of a rainbow of races, all of whom are equal in God’s eyes.”

NO. It’s about Right versus Wrong. Freedom versus Slavery. Liberty versus Tyranny. The Individual against the State.

Thatisall.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:01:46 +0000

An interesting look behind enemy lines.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:20:59 +0000

The recent ROTC advocacy campaigns in the Ivy League were successful despite being opposed passionately by campus leftists.

By: thomass

thomass — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:03:24 +0000

“elite liberal college that prides itself on its atmosphere of civilized discourse”

all the arguments about liberal open mindedness and desire for civil discourse are circular. Liberals are the only ones who see liberals that way…

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:47:54 +0000

yeah sounds like a must read tx

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:47:18 +0000

Otiose, thanks for the link to the book by Rossiter. The reviews look very promising. It’s on my list to read.

By: Otiose

Otiose — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:35:51 +0000

I enjoyed this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Psychological-Political-Madness/dp/0977956318/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358474962&sr=1-1

which argues that the leftists discussed here are a tad bit mentally ill – i.e. they have childish attitudes that they never outgrew.

In the link the references to Palin struck a chord. In the right context, if someone says something derogatory about Palin (I’m in CA so I don’t have to wait long) I really enjoy saying what I think – that of the four up for election I would have preferred her as President. She seemed the most intelligent combined with a flexible mind and a lot of common sense and ability to learn quickly. I remember reading a column in which she discussed her views on monetary issues/banking and was impressed. Someone told me she couldn’t have written that. I think she could have and if she didn’t she had the good sense to recognize workable policies -something our current holder of the office has failed to achieve.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:15:57 +0000

Diversity to ‘liberals’ is a tribal affair. Skin tone, gender, sexual orientation, muslim or not muslim are all that matters. Diversity of opinion is forbidden.

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:04:44 +0000

Wow! This is a description of a segment of society where a minority is oppressed and bullied…….for their political beliefs. As Bawer points out, this is no different than the oppression and bullying of blacks, females, or gays. But it’s considered okay by these two twits that wrote the book? And considered acceptable by faculty and adminstrations at the prestigious Ivy League schools – those bastions of academic freedom? They are the new KKK and there is little opposition to them. It’s disgusting!

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:36:44 +0000

Graphic lesson huh Lisa ? More accepting, tolerent liberals from way back in 84.
Actress Morgan Brittany has a similar story, she was doing some live theatre with Ed Asner around the Time of bush/gore. Every day Ed would grouse when was Gore gonna be declared whats the hold up ? She made an innocous remark like “Ya know Ed not everybody is as invested in Gore like you are.”
She said he never spoke another word to her during all the engagement, just the plays dialogue !