College Republicans to host ‘Conservative Coming Out Day’

[Judi Lynn]

College Republicans to host ‘Conservative Coming Out Day’

Statesman staff report
September 21, 2005

Indiana State students are encouraged by the College Republicans to publicly declare their conservative beliefs at the first National Conservative Coming Out Day today.

Jonathan Moore, president of the ISU College Republicans, said the event, which takes place from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. today on the first floor of HMSU, is for students who are closet conservatives, to publicly show their political beliefs by reading a testimonial.

"This is a great opportunity for conservatives to show our presence on campus," Moore said. "Conservative students should be proud of their beliefs."

Moore said information about conservative ideology would also be available at the table. He said free T-shirts and College Republican membership forms would also be available to students.

http://www.indianastatesman.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/21/4330ec7eb619f

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This propitious timing brings ‘Conservative Coming Out Day’ to nearly coincide with "National Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day." Off by a day or so. Is it possible the two days could be combined?

[marmar]

1. Is there a required labotamy to join a college Repugs group?

I have never met a college Republican with brain matter or witnessed any activity they've sponsored that wasn't completely stupid or offensive. THey are such bottom-feeders.

[Arkana]

22. There is at Providence College, where I'm currently going.

I saw the crew in a meeting the other day--most of them were these huge jock-types with their little blond Stepford girlfriends. Surprise, surprise.

[Ben Ceremos]

41. How about

"Closetted (Gay) Conservatives Trying to Fake It Day"? Or "Closetted Jocks Posing as Heteros Day"? Or "I Have No Brains and Do What I'm Told day?", etc.

[Jack from Charlotte]

52. Being somewhat conservative I might come out..........

Here's what I'd say........

Bush and these repugs are NOT conservative.... they're just moronic Republicans that hate America. I'm not for any party.

I am for America.

Here is why:

I am for a strong military....

When Bush was first elected China stole one of our military planes and took a half dozen of our guys hostage. Bush apologized, and paid china $1,000,000 to get our guys and plane back

August 6, 2001 PDB... Bin Laden to attack memo ignored by Bush. Had he JUST called the airlines to alert them....9/11 attack might have been averted.

9/11 attack occurs and Bush just sits for 20 minutes reading a book to school kids.

Bush promises the Bin Laden will hear from us, days after 9/11. Now 4 years later Bin Laden is still out there.

Bush attacked Iraq for no good reason and has lied numerous times as to why. Now, rather having the strongest, most feared military on earth, we look like crap which will only encourage new enemies to attack us.

I am a fiscal conservative who wanted a balanced budget. Bush took the surpluses we had under Clinton and now has the biggest deficits in history. Even bigger than Reagan's. Republicans TALKED about balanced budgets and under Reagan the elected Bush and now this Bush, we have the biggest deficits in history. And right between those republicans.... Clinton had the biggest surpluses ever. Don't just TALK... do it. Repugs can't do it.

I am for business to do well. Under Bush the S$P is down 8% after 4 1/2 years. Thats the 1st stock losses turned in by a pres since Herb Hoover (R). Under Clinton, we had the largest stock increases in history. Something like 17% gain per year. Stock buyers have voted. Bush isn't being bought.

Like me to to go one.......?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. I respect a number

of conservatives. And they are mostly my age or older.

But college aged conservatives CREEP ME OUT. It just ain't natural! Passion! Energy! Idealism!

These are not conservative traits.

[tom_paine]

54. Sure they are? Remember the Nazis?

The Busheviks are using identical tactics, differing only in severity, a lack of OVERT racism, but oh so much more sophisticated and designed to defeat a people with a much deeper tradition of freedom (that must be broken down) than the Germans of 1930.

[msongs]

3. how 'bout conservatives join the military day??? nt

[Cha]

11. Precisely! That's what they

should be doing..now that would impress me. I'd still think they were Stupid but at least they weren't fucking hypocrites.

[tabasco]

19. Absolutely! Army recruiters should come out to this event !

However, they would not get any recruits from these cowardly slime. They say they have to stay here, safe in the USA, to fight the "culture war." If they saw an Army recruiter, they would run away !

The Army missed its recruiting quota by 10,000 recruits. I guess the freepers really don't want to give war a chance.

[ozarkvet]

43. Conservatives in military

One of the reasons I left the Army is that it was filled with so many damned unthinking uber-conservative, gung-ho racists thugs that it was hard to find someone intelligent to talk to.

No wonder reallly, Rush on the radio was practically official shut-down time. No news but Stars and Stripes and Fox.

Of course, the rank-and-file were primarily rednecks, not the sons of the privilege like you see on TV beating the drum for war. Just sheepeople who blindly follow.

[trogdor]

53. Have you talked to some of the officers?

They're worse. Lots worse.

If I were there, I'd say something like this:

...so I became a conservative because conservatives really care about those who are less fortunate or less free than we are. Not only that, we back this up with action. For example, I have just been to the registrar's office, where I informed the people there that I will not be returning next semester because I had just enlisted in the Army. The War on Terror needs dedicated people like the College Republicans to step up to the plate and put our money where our mouths are, so I will be shipping off to Fort Benning, Georgia, the month after next. College can wait; the terrorists won't, so I ask you, who's with me? (chirp, chirp)

[ozarkvet]

56. Did I talk to the officers?

No choice but!

Of course, being an E-7 it was mainly: Go do this, go do that. Jump? Yessir, How high?

It's a good way to pay for college, however, and straightened this formerly-going-to-be-in-trouble black boy out --- better than prison, which is where I was headed if I kept it up.

Didn't get shot in Iraq (was in the Kurdish area, actually very pleasant people, when they are not shooting at Turks).

I pay zippo when everything is combined with my academic scholarships.

Pretty much 99% of the Army rank-and-file buys everything the Rupukes say, lock, stock, and barrel.

[trogdor]

60. Then it is indeed worse than when I was in.

I left the RA in 1997. The Reserves wasn't nearly as bad in my experience. Now I'm retired, thank God.

I met a lot of supposedly educated :rolleyes: commissioned officers who were totally wacked-out on Republican Jesus to the point of insanity. So much for the much-vaunted West Point educational experience. Those officers who received their commissions through ROTC or OCS weren't nearly as bad as those who went to the Point. Enlisted folks weren't quite that bad either, but quite a few of them went along to get along.

The enlisted Army is affliced with a quite different brand of "conservatism," mainly the NASCAR/NWE variety. Both components got progressively stupider over the last ten or so years.

[ozarkvet]

67. Enlisted pretty bad too

I think it was bad in my unit because we were fairly far forward and tended to get the gung ho love-it-or-leave-it crowd.

[msongs]

72. you got the I want to kill people and get away with legally crowd nt

[Canuckistanian]

73. Sounds like The General's Yellow Elephant ad....

You sure you weren't plagiarizing just a teeny bit? :)

[tabasco]

77. That's not my expeience.

I was an officer for ten years and an em for three years and I knew quite a few liberals among them. A high ranking person you see on tv quite a bit is a big time liberal from Mass.

I've recently been called back up and have talked to some officers and NCOs since I got my orders. Just about every one of them was clearly not happy with the national leadership.

Anybody that comes on here and claims the military is 100% republican is either just wrong or a troll.

[misternormal]

75. Join up

I completely agree... my daughter is headed for the thick of it as a medic, hating the war, but intending on doing her job to save lives. The college conservatives who support the war in Iraq should waive the "coming out party", and change it to an enlistment party, and join the fight.

[rodeodance]

4. Young Repugs have been coming out a lot recently and making their

presense known.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Show up with gift-wrapped enlistment papers for all the newbies.

They should be the right age to join Shrubby's great war.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. maybe both.

They control three branches of government, especially in indiana. Their religious bigots are ramming through educational changes which further their fundie-conservative platform.

and these guys feel like they need serious group support just to state their own positions?

Well, it must be embarrassment or recognition that the conservative politicies have wrought damage and worse. That is why they have to hang in groups, rather than stand up proudly on their own two feet, even if one of their feet was in use as dental floss.

[Binka]

7. Shit I Thought They Were Coming Out of The "Closet"

With Mehlman, and Limbaugh, and Drier, and Santorum, and Hatch leading the very Gay Way! Bummer.

[benburch]

8. No...

"Coming out" as a Conservative means going into the "Gay Closet".

[maxrandb]

29. They Are!!!

The "Chicken-hawk Closet", that is.

[Cha]

9. More like..

Exposing major brain deficency Day.

Good Luck with those missing cells.

[LizMoonstar]

10. creepy use of terminology, as if they're 'oppressed'

Jesus Christ Superstar, get over yourselves and give up the martyr complex!


of course, I'm a straight white middle-class female, so I'm not oppressed either, but I don't try to claim I am.




Yes, I just took the name of the Lord's rock opera in vain :)

[meganmonkey]

18. LOL

Yes, I just took the name of the Lord's rock opera in vain :)

:rofl:

[belle]

37. What a bunch of whiny little twerps.

[Ben Ceremos]

42. Spot on...

:rofl:

[Bob3]

12. So when are they signing up? Iraq needs troops.

Also I don't have the heart to look but do the young republican and free republic web sites have any sort of link where you can contribute to Katrina relief? I'm willing to bet no.

[BlueJazz]

13. Free T-Shirts....."He said free T-shirts ......"

What are they gonna' say? "I'm a Moran with shit for brains?"

[BR_Parkway]

27. "I'm fighting the culture war over here, so I don't have to go fight

a real war over there"

I'm thinking a nice, bright Yellow would look best.

[HoosierClarkie]

34. How about this one...

Heres mine: "I like Bush and Dick!"

sorry that was a little vulgar. ;)

[ridgerunner]

40. I know a fellow that had a t-shirt

that said "Bush and Dick: The Way God Meant It To Be".

[misternormal]

76. Free Tshirts

There will also be a tent, where one can get a photo made of shirt recipient kissing the butt of a life-sized sculture of Dubya. The photo can be zapped on the front of the T-shirt... For a nominal fee of course.

[AlCzervik]

14. doesn't this really say that they are embarrassed to be conservatives?

They need a coming out party?

[Ganja Ninja]

15. Shouldn't they be holding this on Hitler's birthday?

[trogdor]

55. That's in April.

Too many of the stupider freshmen will have flunked out by then.

[DFWJock]

16. Im shocked, just shocked

there are any College republicans left, I would have thought they would have all enlisted by now.

[leftofcool]

17. Oh gee, its the feces crowd / eom

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. They do this every year

If they don't feel like victims, they don't feel. Full stop.

[Dukkha]

21. exclusive photo from their coming out day

[defiant1]

23. BFD....

The fact that they actually need a special day to come out and proclaim their ignorance is laughable.

[Up2Late]

24. I guess their coming out of the closet has to wait until later...

...when they get caught by a Congressional investigation.

[wallwriter]

25. Just what do they mean by "Conservative," anyway?

Back in the old days, it meant fiscal responsibility and limited government (including keeping it out of people's bedrooms).

If bunch of people like that spoke out publicly, it wouldn't be so bad...

Instead, we're likely to get a bunch of war-mongering, (selective) bible-thumping, hypocritical and corrupt wackaloons.

[NJmaverick]

26. sick assholes

belittling the gay rights movement with their political bull shit!

[Ishoutandscream2]

36. That's exactly how I saw it. A passive-agressive swipe at the

gay rights movement. You know, they try to be subversively funny, but it just doesn't work. Conservatives usually make crappy comedians.

[Binka]

38. They Don't Know Subversive From A Fucking Submarine

Pathological Narcissists. Every mother fucking one. They are only funny when they are dead.

[jkappy]

28. Why not WASPS a coming out ? n/t

[Sabriel]

30. Great idea! They could all get tattoos or wear the same shirt

It would make them easier for me to identify them immediately, so I don't have to waste time.

[obreaslan]

31. Damn, I guess it was too much to hope it was what I thought....

It might be. :)

[Mari333]

32. This is a job for Operation Yellow Elephant!

http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/2005/08/george-w-bush-national-yellow-elephant.html

[slampoet]

33. So nice all the Gay Republicans can have a day to be Gay

and ......


..Oh? Never Mind.

[Maggie_May]

35. What is a conservative?

Debt Debt and more Debt. I don't know if I can take anymore conservatives. I now announce that this is the party that spends and leave it on the backs of future generations to pay.
That is a conservative!!!!

[alfredo]

39. " to publicly show their political beliefs by reading a testimonial"

Oh, making them read a loyalty oath.

[silverweb]

59. That was my first thought, too.

I wonder if reading the "testimonial" is accompanied by pricking a finger to swear a blood oath to _{imperial emperor georgie}, as well?

:P

On edit: I want to see a followup article about how many attended to "come out" and how many others attended to jeer them on.

[alfredo]

65. They probably video taped it so

they can hold them to their statement.

[alfredo]

44. I sent feedback

I said I hoped some military enlistment forms were there. I then told them not to talk the talk if they can't walk the walk.

[tainowarrior]

45. this is too funny.

Conservative "coming out" day? As if they're a persecuted minority!

Hello, you own the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judiciary Branches, and a sizeable amount of the military. Your corporations control and own the mass media, and you have almost omnipotent dominance of the talk-radio network.

Please let me know WHEN you've been oppressed. If you're feeling under the heat, it's because your policies are failing, and people are all over the world are rebelling to them.

[Qibing Zero]

50. Of course they think they're a persecuted minority

They're in college, which means every day they're not taking strictly business classes they get lambasted with those evil things called truth and reality.

[AspenRose]

46. More like "crawl out from under your rock" day.

Vermin.

[Judi Lynn]

71. Good one! National Republican "Crawl Out From Under Your Rock" Day.

Couldn't be more appropriate. :thumbsup:

[jsamuel]

47. "coming out" - I find that offensive. Making fun of gay people...

don't worry, the conservative students already make it well known who they are


like the guy in one of my classes that gets pissed off any time it is shown that invading another country without accounting for the culture of the people is doomed to failure

[stanwyck]

48. Wonderful idea.

Especially for all the women on campus. Now, they'll know exactly who to avoid. No more spending time with a guy they thought might be interesting only to find out he detests women, minorities, gays, and just about everyone on the planet except his equally pathetic buddies.
Of course they could be a few females in this "coming out" group. But, I predict mostly very unappealing white males.

[baby_mouse]

49. Well, REALLY.

Look, I've got NOTHING AGAINST conservatives. Some of my best friends are conservatives, it's just that they're so emotional and rabid and forever ramming their ideology down our throats!

What they believe in the privacy of their own heads is possibly their own business but it becomes quite different when CHILDREN are involved.

Let's get ome laws written up to stop this sort of thing. The destabilising effect of conservatism on social norms is, as I think we all know, a threat to the notion of civilised behaviours like ordinary politeness, fiscal accountability, standing by your word and accepting personal responsibility. I think we all know that conservatism fragments societies and makes them useless. Their sustained attack on social values is hardly in question. Their social engineering progammes are destined to failure as they know only too well, the conservative agenda is reactionary and borne of a generation of malcontents and loons.

And what are the children supposed to make of all this? Hm?

Are there going to be conservatives publically announcing their beliefs by draping their offensive propaganda around the campus? In front of ORDINARY PEOPLE who are simply going about their own business?

Really, I think some of these people need some lessons in good manners and GOOD TASTE.

[jackster]

51. does anyone else find this absurd BECAUSE.....

well, INDIANA is a red state isn't? Primarily "conservative." Why would one need to be "outed" as a conservative in a mostly conservative area?

Makes no sense.... but then these neocons usually don't.

[CatholicEdHead]

57. This just drips with irony

"coming out day". What to the Log Cabin Republicans think about this? Or will there be "coming out" in other ways for these young frat Republicans? ;)

[pinniped]

58. It's a simple concept that even these idiots should be able to comprehend.

Their piece of shit presidunce has issued the calls for fresh meat.

--"Conservative students should be proud of their beliefs." --

[geniph]

61. Oh, cry me a frigging river!

Poor put-upon persecuted little babies! Sometimes their professors make them listen to actual FACTS and REASON, so they're oppressed and persecuted for holding idiotic opinions based on their simplistic lack of reasoning skills.

Can we make them wear some kind of visible badge of their Conservo-Robot Pride so that we know who the hell to avoid?

[truebrit71]

62. MAKE SURE THEY ENLIST AT THE SAME TIME....

...that way you can REALLY show how proud you are to be a rethuglican...

:barf:

[DrZeeLit]

78. Where are the Marine recruiters when ya need 'em? BRING 'EM ON! n/t

[rocktivity]

63. Why not make this a "great opportunity" to show their political beliefs

by entlisting and helping Georgie out?

This sounds like a job for


:headbang:
rocknation

[6000eliot]

64. Hey conservatives!

Come out and fuck off!

[stickdog]

66. Can we brand them all with blood red pentagons?

[liberaliraqvet26]

68. they wont get laid no more...

thats for sure. all the pretty girls are liberals ;)

[Dem2theMax]

69. Too bad they didn't give us more notice.

Just think of it. Michael Moore, the two recruiters from F 9-11, a few cameras, lots of film - instant movie hit! :evilgrin:

[MN ChimpH8R]

70. Mirroring the Hitlerjugend, I see

These boys are taking tips from the losers - Goebbels, von Schirach, Goering. Now just click your heels together and Heil Bush, asshats!

[Voltaire99]

74. A pity they aren't in Iraq.

Travel is so broadening.

[pro_blue_guy]

79. Hey.

When these closeted conservatives come out, we should treat them as second class citizens and not allow them to get married and condemn them to hell.

[UTUSN]

80. They're Coming Out in Tweeds? Matt PUDGE EggWhites? What? n/t

[TheDonkey]

81. lovely, I suspected a reverse equal pay bake sale will be included too

like they have done before. College Republicans, real pieces of shit.