Why Enlist When You’ve Already Stapled So Much
Why Enlist When You’ve Already Stapled So Much
College conservatives are rallying in Virginia today for the College Republican National Convention. Our friends at Campus Progress have had a reporter inside all day, and he seems to have figured out why convention officials don’t think pro-war conservatives should be encouraged to enlist.
Apparently, at least according to Tony Perkins, it’s because being a right-wing campus activist is sacrifice enough.
Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council took the stage, noting with courageous enthusiasm, “There are some things that are worth fighting for.” He proceeded to talk about the Iraq War, and some very heroic veterans. … Then he said, “They’re giving their lives as you’re giving your time.”
You know, you’ve got a point there, Tony. Just like our soldiers are dying in Iraq, campus conservatives are stapling flyers for an Ann Coulter speech to a kiosk. Basically the same thing.
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June 24th, 2005 at 3:48 pmIt’s simple, College Republicans don’t enlist because they believe gays should not be in the military. They prefer to blow each other near campus in the Bushes.
June 24th, 2005 at 3:52 pmOperation Yellow Elephant is seeking to enlist some of these brave lads.
June 24th, 2005 at 3:52 pmYellow Elephants - ranting is safer than enlisting
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/ 2005_06_19_patriotboy_archive.html#111933630881545776
June 24th, 2005 at 3:54 pmMore Chickenhawks in this country than chickens.
You can’t oppose the war on US university campuses, you get shot like those four students at Kent State in 1970. You must support the war in Iraq to avoid conflict.
June 24th, 2005 at 3:59 pmyou gotta love those 101st flying keyboarders.
June 24th, 2005 at 4:17 pmI like the suggestion that the Young Republicans disband until the conclusion of the war when they return from active duty.
I think the RNC should do the same.
Bush said his message is simple - don’t let the insurgents mold our will. I think all those who sport metallic ribbons on their cars or support Bush should immediately enlist.
June 24th, 2005 at 4:27 pmIn fact, an even better idea -
don’t wait to enlist - just get a plane ticket and go to Iraq now. Think of it - millions of Bush supporters forging his will on the streets of Baghdad.
And the airlines would love it too.
June 24th, 2005 at 4:29 pm“They’re giving their lives as you’re giving your time.� WHAT? I never hear a more outrageous statement in my life! What group is this? College Republicans on marijuana?
June 24th, 2005 at 4:55 pmTakes more than drugs to make you that ignorant. Marijuana might be a cure for that as well.
June 24th, 2005 at 5:04 pmUnfortunately the Supreme Court ruled against anything like that recently.
June 24th, 2005 at 5:12 pmI’ve got my white out, scissors, paper, laptop, and an assortment of pens and pencils and I’m ready to deploy.
Daddy knows where to send my allowance. Off to the student union bldg..
Good thing I have the convertable for nighttime frat patrolls. Someone has to do the grunt work.
June 24th, 2005 at 6:15 pmYou could staple your knuckle and then you’d really have a problem, just like those guys in Iraq. Gotta go puke…
June 24th, 2005 at 6:16 pmI WAS STANDING KNEE DEEP IN RICE PATTIES SLUGGING IT OUT WITH CHARLIE, WHILE PANSIES LIKE YOU WERE STAPLING PRO-WAR FLYERS, DRIVING YOUR SUV ‘S, PURCHASING ONLINE, AND LISTENING TO RAP ALBUMS. OOOOOOOOOH!!!!!,
June 24th, 2005 at 6:29 pmOOOOOOOOOOOOHH!!!!!!!
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!
Jeff,
Too bad your friends in this administration were so stupid they didn’t learn the first time. A war and occupation of a people that doesn’t ask for it always results in quagmires, and self righteous assholes… One we have in iraq, the other on this blog in the name of Jeff…
June 24th, 2005 at 7:17 pmRyan,
I hate to tell you this, but Jeff was doing a parody troll.
WHILE PANSIES LIKE YOU WERE STAPLING PRO-WAR FLYERS
And a pretty good one. It fooled me at first, too. Gotta read them a few times.
June 24th, 2005 at 7:43 pmG’Day All:
Ah, the yellow elephants, the piddlin’ pachyderms, the spineless blowhards, the wannabe warmeisters, the freakin’ pukes, but then what can be expected of gaggle of youngsters who worship DeLay, Frist, Rummy, Rove and our fearless leader?
Ah, fearless leader, commander flight deck, the stump-gopher, the flying chimp, the awolmeister, the freakin’ puke. Alas, I ramble on.
BTW: Ryan: No offense, but you really owe Jeff an apology.
Jeff: Welcome back to The World, brother, glad you made it! Have you noticed that the fragging has begun in the ‘Raq?
Yeah, fearless leader lied alright, and just look at this mess!
-Sky
June 24th, 2005 at 11:17 pmMissed the humor, sorry about that ;) Humor is a great think, I just get so pissed about this issue sometimes I forget to look for it…
June 25th, 2005 at 12:30 amStapling an Ann Coulter speech flyer to a telephone pole would certainly kill me. I’m just not that foolhardy now that I have passed age 65 - some time ago. I decided to forego the posthumous medal.
June 25th, 2005 at 12:45 amCan’t the Young Americans and Republicans go bake cookies for their men at the front?
And then go work in the defense plants, hand out donuts at the USO, and dream of the day when their heroes come home for good?
Wait a minute. Isn’t that what WOMEN did during WWII?
June 25th, 2005 at 4:29 amNo criticism of women during WWII intended. I just thought the entire tone of the YR rhetoric was, well, a little WEIRD.
And, just to ask: wtf is a rice ‘patty’? Is that like a hamburger patty?
June 25th, 2005 at 4:38 amNo sweat, Ryan.
I don’t even think you owe Jeff an apology. Parody trolls live for those moments when we can’t tell whether they are being sincere or poking fun. It’s high praise for the art form.
June 25th, 2005 at 5:38 amAahhh, Mr. Helper.
Jeff was doing parody alright; but not of a troll. I’m surprised more of you didn’t recognize the homage to Sam Kinnison from the classic “Back to School”.
June 25th, 2005 at 8:42 amYoung College Republicans, who state that they are helping the War. By giving their time, shows how low the republicans have come in A time of War. They are for the War as long as some one elses Sons or Daughters fights it.
June 25th, 2005 at 9:02 amDon’t you realize all of our men and women are dying for Bush who lied . We were not attached by Saddam. Ben Laden was our enemy. If you believe in this war go sign up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2005 at 10:47 amZLD in Illinois
This is a college in Virginia!
(there’s a college in Virginia?)
Hope it’s a denistry college.
June 25th, 2005 at 10:51 amPaper cut! Better apply a stinking Purple Heart Band-Aid quickly. You know like the one’s the republicans taunted John Kerry & the democrats with.
June 25th, 2005 at 10:53 amWhat part of “Go Join Up” don’t they understand?
June 25th, 2005 at 11:39 amYoung republicans are not the same as they used to be. The picture that comes to mind is that of a stiffly dressed, uptight, conservative young person, and that small faction still exists.
Todays young Repub. is for lack of a better word, ” a postion holder”. In general, they are affluent, and want to hold on to what their parents have and had, and then some more. Conservative repub. is associated with the continued opportunity for the accumulation of wealth, and does not go much deeper than that. Kinda like the kindergartner that jumps on all the toys, pulls them all underneath, and says, ‘mine”. So when I read, the above, I’m not surprised.
June 25th, 2005 at 11:46 amI am on campus alot and my wife has worked at a college and with students for years. This is what I have observed and there are many more students that think this way than in the past. I do also realize that they are following their parents lead.
Common young college repub. ailment: Elephantitus of the asshole.
June 25th, 2005 at 11:48 amI left out the word, “selfish” but that is what I was really thinking.
June 25th, 2005 at 11:49 amTake them down like they did in Animal House. Bluto? Bluto?
June 25th, 2005 at 11:55 amIn response to Fred,
June 25th, 2005 at 12:15 pmI think kids join groups to “fit in”. These young repuglycans lack the social skills needed to belong to diverse groups so they join the most narrow minded.
What many of my fellow Democrats don’t get is that some of the strongest Bush vote came from some of the most distressed rural areas areas of the country, such as the Western Plains.
Look at map of the U.S. countries with shrinking population and then look at a map of the counties with the strongest Bush vote. They look the same. Many Bush votes came from rural people angry that they feel they have been left behind. Clinton mostly ignored them.
When Dems figure this out they will get the White House and Congress back. Until then we better get used to being the minority.
Can you guess I came from the Plains myself?
I got out. Many pople back there wish they could too, but won’t admit it.
Western MN, SD, ND, NE, WY, IA, KS are all full of shrinking towns. It’s sad. The states I just listed have 14 senators. That’s a lot of power. I came from a rural farmer area (formerly very Democratic but now Republican) with the majority of farm households having some current or former connection to the military. The moderate Republican suburban area in PA I live in now has very few veterans by percentage but voted heavily for Kerry. huh? Go figure.
June 25th, 2005 at 12:24 pmMtruc,
I think they are talking about college campuses and as many know that is not the “real world”.
in reply to the comment:
It could also be that the, “distressed rural areas” bought the “value” lies peddled by the Republican campaign. I doubt whether these areas will be any better off after 8 years of this B.S. Just people switching camps, hoping for something better. I feel for them.
June 25th, 2005 at 1:15 pmGet your in your face, anti-chickenshit College Republican bumper stickers at Ucanadas.com. I gurantee those little chickenshits with their Bush/Cheney stickers will cower away in fear when they see one of these stickers on your car!!!
June 25th, 2005 at 1:31 pmAnd how did Bushie show his appreciation for these “distressed rural area’s”?
I could swear I heard that the farmers are upset with Bushie because he wants to cut agriculture grants…
Hmmm….I think I’d rather be ignored.
June 25th, 2005 at 1:31 pmSorry, but I think the term is “ignorant” rather than “rural”. Now before we get defensive over the use of the word “ignorant”, realize what the word truly means. It’s a sad word actually.
June 25th, 2005 at 2:05 pmThe word “manipulated” comes to mind also.
June 25th, 2005 at 2:23 pmthe college republicans don’t join the military because it makes too obvious their lockstep mentality. the uniform and all, you know.
however, they CAN still support bush-the-deserter and his illegal war AND feed their other all consuming illness: greed. become a private military contractor in iraq. those are really safe jobs in the rear echelons. they support the war and make LOTS of money.
they don’t have any life-threatening worries. oh, weren’t 4 contractors killed, mutiliated, burned and hung from a bridge? oh, that drive from baghdad to its airport can be dangerous, but only if you’re an italian journalist speaking truth to power. no worries on THAT score with young college republicans.
yellow elephants! what an image!
June 25th, 2005 at 10:34 pmSo Skidmarks, is anyone who disagrees with you “ignorant”? The Democrats need a new strategy, because when you attempt to label anyone who disagrees with you as “ignorant”, you only alienate them further, and do more harm to your own cause.
I can’t believe how loyal some of you sheep are to the Democratic party. They are a bunch of crooks, just like the Republicans, and they don’t give a shit about the common man either.
I doubt that this country has ever been so badly in need of another viable political party as it is now. There are some better choices than the Dems or Repubs right now (i.e. Libertarian), but most people are either voting “lesser of two evils” because they don’t want to “waste” their vote and allow the worst guy in, or else they are just sheep like you who are incapable of being free-thinkers. And many are just morons who vote the way that their union or their preacher tells them to, or the way that their father did.
June 26th, 2005 at 3:02 amMy direct ancestors offed enough limeys to create what is now the USA.
And then, my direct ancestors offed enough more limeys in the war of 1812 to forever sustain democracy in the USA.
Or so they thought.
Now we have a bush administration that is dedicated only to trashing everything that our founding fathers fought for.
If you voted for bush, you are a traitor against the USA.
As a genetic patriot, I enlisted in the USA military, and I have discharge papers to prove that I was honorably discharged.
There is now not a single person in the bush administration who served the USA in any way, shape, or form.
There are two definitions of “Chickenhawk” and there is no doubt whatsoever that EVERYONE in the bush administration complies with both definitions.
Be warned- USA Patriots are a force that bush cannot pervert to match bush’s own perversion.
George
June 26th, 2005 at 4:37 amCome on guys,
You know it’s got to take alot out of you to be that hypocritical, and willfully ignorant. Its a constant war on the truth. Its got to be tiring always walking around humming with your fingers in your ears and your eyes closed.
I just dont understand their apprehension to serving in the greatest war started by their great and glorious leader.
Tell them to come meet me in Germany and I’ll enlist them. Heck, I coming to the states for a couple weeks of Leave they can meet me anywhere in Indiana and I would be proud to give them the oath of enlistment.
I’d just like to see some of these chickenhawk sons of bitches put their money where their mouth is. They’re out there impugning the integrity of my political philosophy’s patriotism, while I prepare to fight the war that we were lied into. What a bunch of whining chickenshit hypocrites.
I wish I would have beat the shit out of some of them while I was in college.
June 26th, 2005 at 5:17 amI just read a grest post by a young soldier in Irag at another blogsite. He summed-uped his lessons from the front with his final observation from the field and the men and women he fights with,
…” republicans don,t volunteer…”
I would say that not only includes the war effort but pretty much any other socially responsible program that comes down the pike. Compassionate Convervative is just a spin talking point and ultimately another lie.
June 26th, 2005 at 1:11 pmPatriotism is easy to understand in America-
it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
votetoimpeach.org
June 26th, 2005 at 3:19 pmSorry, Dave, but it appears you are ignorant or the meaning of the word ignorant. Look it up.
June 26th, 2005 at 6:01 pmThe rich send the poor to fight their wars, and in this case, the poorest section ate it up. I think it was the patriotic card Bush played. The
June 27th, 2005 at 11:38 amsouth and midwest take it serious.
“There is now not a single person in the bush administration who served the USA in any way, shape, or form”
That is incorrect, George. Donald Rumsfeld was a naval aviator. G.W. was a pilot in the TX air national guard. Alberto Gonzales served in the Air force.
June 28th, 2005 at 2:43 amDave:
You are historically correct; however, the fact remains, each of the aforementioned is still a chickenhawk — not a one has ever been in harm’s way, the fog of war wherein lies all sorts of bad news.
-Sky
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