What's the matter with young Republicans?

[ColbertWatcher]

First we had the guy from that YPM group who illegally switched people's voting registration to GOP, and now we have poor Miss Todd.

What is it with College Republicans? Are victim wannabes attracted to the GOP or are they taught to be victims? What is it about the GOP ideology that either attracts people with that particular criminal tendency or are they encouraged to lie, cheat and steal to get ahead?

Exactly what is the matter with Republicans and their young?

[Crazy Dave]

1. They prefer watching their bank accounts grow instead of their kids

[enki23]

2. a fish rots from the head. look at the last several decades of these peoples' role models

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[NEVERBAGDOWN]

3. While you and I are ostracised, scrutinized

and lied on like illegal aliens.

What's wrong with them you ask?...ignorant, pusshead, Kook-aide drinkers, plain and simple.

[endthewar]

5. Precisely. We'd be the same if we had to listen 24/7 to the likes of Rush and Hannity.

[Greyhound]

23. I don't think so, when limpballs was first syndicated I lived in Atlanta and

there was nothing to listen to other than reich-wing hate speech (Neil Boortz was still practicing law part-time during this) and I've been addicted to talk radio since I was a kid in the late 70s. So I heard them every day, all day, and never had a moment where I believed them.

His arguments have always been based on false premises and he has always twisted the facts when he wasn't outright lying. We have to simply recognize the fact that there are large numbers of people that lack the ability to think on their own and make accommodations for them.

[pokerfan]

26. I tune in every now and then to see what they're saying

as well as Dennis Miller, Michael Savagery, etc. It's a steady drum beat of how Barrack is some kind of muslim Manchurian Candidate, a terrorist, an unpatriotic non-American, a treasonous traitor poopy-head who wants to hand the country over to the Al-Qaeda Arabs after first killing our babies and burning the American flag while refusing to wear his lapel pin.

And all of this is happening with McCain's tacit (wink-wink) approval. No wonder McCain has such a hard time looking Obama in the eye.

John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. "lied on like illegal aliens." I'm not sure what this means. n/t

[The Wielding Truth]

4. They are convinced that we all should be money hungry bullies.

[tbredbeck]

7. Young Republicans

They are brought up to believe that a "liberal" is some kind of satan worshipper. So, when a liberal democrat is making such a strong run in the polls, they think the Apocalypse is coming. "Oh no, not the party that brought us civil rights, social security, medicare, medicaid, and etc etc etc... Nooooo........."

[ColbertWatcher]

19. "They are brought up to believe that a "liberal" is some kind of satan worshipper."

Good point.

So, not only is their way of life threatened, but so is all of mankind. And they're the only ones who can save us all.

[meow2u3]

44. Their dads beat that message into them--literally and figuratively

Poor Young Republicans. They can't help it. They're victims of child abuse that was condoned by their local authorities. Daddy made them think like a kool-aid drinker :sarcasm:

[Old and In the Way]

8. It's the minors for entering the Republican national political scene.

Part of their advancement is their willingness to lie, cheat, steal, or commit any number of unethical dirty tricks to further the Republican Party. The nastier you are, the more valuable your contribution is.

[Chimichurri]

9. It's not just young republicans. It's a mental disorder. They all have

sociopathic tendencies to varying degrees and as the old saying goes, birds of a feather...

They really are from the Dark Side.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. I like what John Dean wrote in his book "Conservatives Without Conscience"

(I'll paraphrase) He describes some of the GOP as authoritarian, a subset of which is the leaders and another is the followers. Regardless which one a GOP is--leader or follower--they're both authoritarians and both willingly accept their roles.

[Chimichurri]

22. Which is why they've aligned themselves with evangelicals.

Generally, any religious extremist have the same tendencies to either fall in line or be the authoritarian dictating how people should behave.

That's not true for all people of faith, of course.

[ColbertWatcher]

30. And vice versa. It's a mutal aid society going on there. n/t

[ThatPoetGuy]

10. And let's not forget Francisco Nawa.

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/12/14/news/19744.shtml

[ColbertWatcher]

12. I forgot all about that guy. Thank you for posting. n/t

[tjwash]

11. Much of it is due to the entire internet anonymity phenomenon.

Under the cover of anonymity, people can say whatever they want, and as long as they are careful, there is absolutely no fear of retribution. It tends to lay the black hearts of the conservative party out bare and exposes them for what they really are-selfish, racist hate mongers that care little for anything but THEIR god, THEIR guns, THEIR taxes, and THEIR rights. Ironically, they also care little about who they are hypocritically willing to have others step on and oppress, to ensure that THEIR right to be a selfish hate mongering little shit does not get infringed upon.

We mistakenly believe they are few in number and will soon crawl back under their rocks. Sadly, however, because of the cover of anonymity, they tend to get louder meaner, and more obnoxious. They feed off each other. Over this past generation, they have managed to take their dark selfish politics from the edge to the status-quo. Progressive and altruistic ideologies that were once once inherent to American youth, have mostly disappeared. Sadly, they have been replaced by a generation weaned on the selfish callous disregard of Reaganomics, the teeth gnashing jingoism and underlying racist garbage spewed forth by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Mikey Savage, the corruption of Christianity to encompass the "who can we hate the most" dogma, and this seething neurotic hatred of liberals and the federal government.

The problem arises for them, when the few brave souls that have been so securely nestled in the bunkers of their moms basement, venture forth out in to the real world, forgetting that their anonymity gets checked at mommies door. We are just seeing the conservatives really are...bullies, but only bullies if no one is there to take them to task and call them on their shit. As has become apparent lately, strip that anonymity away and they all tend to curl up in the fetal position, and start crying that "it's just not fair...why are you oppressing me?"

Fuck them...they deserve worse than what they are getting.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. But, why aren't more liberals serial self-abusers for the cause?

I like your theory, but I think it has to be seen through the filter of authoritarianism, because the progressive political philosophy doesn't encourage that kind of behavior and there's just as many (if not more) liberals online as there are freepers.

[tjwash]

27. Oh...we have our number of whack jobs and cranks here. The repubs are just more extreme right now...

...because they are running scared and losing it badly right now. Believe me...we have some crazy fuckers on this board of ours that are in serious need of psychological evaluation themselves.

Jim Jones anyone...he was a Dem. So were his followers.

If Obama figures out a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...watch the fuck out. What some of the DEMS will probably do will make Ashley and the rest look like kindergarten recess.

[Oak2004]

35. No: this is a longstanding problem with Republican, and especially CR, culture

It was a problem that affected CRs when I was a CR, and though I did have a work study job that put me on an Arpanet node back then, I don't think Arpanet was the cause :)

Republican culture has historically differed from Democratic culture in two ways: the first is that party loyalty comes first. It's why a lot of people who should know better have gone along with the party's lurch to the extreme right. The second is that when it comes to winning, anything goes (as long as you don't get caught).

Look at the former heads of the CR. When I was a CR, Lee Atwater was in charge. That tell you anything about CR culture? Officially of course we did not teach, encourage, or do anything that wasn't completely on the up and up. Unofficially, there were lots of winks and nudges and "I wouldn't know who would do this, but...." lines. We all knew the real rules were do whatever you can get away with, and make sure what you do can't be tied back to any political campaign if you are caught.

There were still liberal Republicans when I was a CR, and it was a liberal CR from our chapter who got caught jamming the phone lines of an opponent's phone bank during a student government election. Yep, we'd even cheat at those.

[frogmarch]

13. I'll answer the question in this way...

Near the end of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, after the vampires had crashed the prom dance, a TV reporter asks a young guy why no one had noticed that rampaging vampires had crashed the dance, and the young guy answered (something like), "Well, we thought they were just young Republicans."

[ColbertWatcher]

18. LOL! Now I have to go watch that! n/t

[trotsky]

14. Their motto is: Lie, cheat, steal.

(Not necessarily in that order.)

[KillCapitalism]

15. They're still too chicken to be in Iraq.

So they act all tough & shady like here to compensate.

[SunDrop23]

17. Q: What's the matter with young Republicans? A: They suck. (nt)

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

21. devotion without question; raised to hate; man is not created equal...

...convinced they doing God's work, etc.. Characteristics of many cults and fascist organizations.

[ColbertWatcher]

29. "convinced they doing God's work" Good assessment. Thank you. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

24. Their ideas are cold, old, stale, bitter and full of mortification. n/t

[Jed Dilligan]

25. The ideology is a magnet for every kind of villain.

[guitar man]

28. "What's the matter with young Republicans? "

I think you have managed to successfully craft a question that answers itself with that one! :rofl: :thumbsup:

seriously though, I think they mostly suffer from living in a world that has never taught them about consequences, for anything.

[ColbertWatcher]

32. I stole the title from Thomas Frank's book ...

What's The Matter With Kansas?

But, your idea is an interesting one.

And when it's coupled with the GOP's inherent racism, Ashley Todd's behavior makes perfect sense (at least to them anyway).

[johnfunk]

31. What's the matter with them? Too much easy credit!

[ColbertWatcher]

33. Did you make that!? That's perfect! n/t

[orleans]

34. nose-pickin' rove-a-bees n/t

[LiberalEsto]

36. They have no empathy for others

They were the kids who tortured ants and other critters. They simply do not understand that other living beings feel pain.

[ColbertWatcher]

39. Or that others have just as much right to exist as they do. n/t

[DailyGrind51]

37. What I saw written on a college men's room wall:

"Young Republicans, what are you doing in here, when your asshole is in Washington?"

[lynettebro440]

38. They are scum bag stupid sons of bitches

that don't have a single brain cell working in their heads.

[MrScorpio]

40. They're assholes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7584901&mesg_id=7584901

[timtom]

41. "what is the matter with young Republicans"

They grow up to be adult Republicans.

[meow2u3]

42. WHAT'S the matter with young Republicans?!

They're just like their GOP elders, only dumber and more blatantly immature. Does this answer your question?

[mitchum]

43. They breathe