Meet The Conservative Kids At...UC BERKELEY

[matcom]

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Andrea Irvin's college bedroom is at once a suburban schoolgirl mecca and a shrine to the Republican Party. The UC Berkeley junior, who studies business and economics, has affixed a neat row of bumper stickers to her door ("Viva Bush!" reads one), and on the peach-colored walls has hung a Breakfast at Tiffany's poster near a Bush-Cheney '04 campaign sign. On a dresser laden with cosmetics rests a picture taken at a political fund-raiser in which Irvin stands next to Bush's former press secretary, Ari Fleisher, whom she "likes a lot." The room smells faintly of perfume. It is also the unofficial headquarters of the Berkeley College Republicans, of which Irvin is the president.

Irvin's twin bed often goes unmade, but it's from this corner perch that one of the most unabashedly conservative students at the notoriously liberal Cal dreams up club events, runs board meetings, and makes phone calls to local Republican campaigns to advance an agenda that will surely, if sometimes unintentionally, rankle most of her peers.

Though only 21, Irvin exudes a cool confidence, in part cultivated through defending her unpopular political positions on a campus best known for nurturing the free speech movement and anti-war protests. She runs the club in the same self-assured manner -- sometimes to the point of inspiring fear within the membership. Irvin says she has no desire to hold public office, yet she exhibits an innate political savvy; in her sure, careful way, she knows how to tug on the heartstrings of potential donors and unify a club that's not monolithic in its views.


http://sfweekly.com/issues/2004-05-12/feature.html/1/index.html

[PragMantisT]

1. "Irvin says she has no desire to hold public office..."

Of course not, then you have all kinds of rules, better to pass an agenda from behind the scenes. Then be appointed to a job that you can use to further your fortunes and the fortunes of your cronies. Holding public office is for underachievers. The real money is in graft.

Irvin will make a perfect repuke. If she has one fault, it is here lack of expressed bloodlust.

[denverbill]

4. Here other fault is bigger.

"unify a club that's not monolithic in its views"

If her club isn't toeing the conservative line, they won't get a very warm welcome into the Republican fold.

Methinks her poster of 'Breakfast at Tiffanys' alone would disqualify her from most conservative circles. After all, Fred is gay.

[GOPisEvil]

2. I experienced this from the other side.

I was a member of the Young Democrats on the Texas A&M campus. There weren't many of us. :D

[mitchtv]

3. Is she a Blond?

just curious

[stanwyck]

5. My advice to college freeper

who was trying desperately to get my daughter's attention this past weekend. Don't wear the RWN T-Shirts. Here he was, hitting on my daughter (secretary of the Young Democrats at her college) while wearing a "Kill All the Liberals" T-Shirt. She was OK until he turned around and she read the message. Then, he was toast. I told him he's never going to attract the girls unless he leaves the T-Shirt, and philosophy, back at the dorm. Face it. He's cutting his chances down 50% right from the start. Then, at least another 25% just isn't going to be interested. He's really hurting his odds. Then, the girls who are still interested. Well, will he be interested in them? Not too bright to limit your options. These poor deluded kids at Berkeley are making the same mistake. How sad to be so young and so stupid.

[myrna minx]

6. Sheesh...the only ladies that kid is going to be able to date

are the of the ilk that correspond, and subsequently marry imprisoned serial killers. :crazy:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. No, no, don't give advice!

Let natural selection work!

[GOPisEvil]

8. Hey - let him screw himself up!

That leaves more liberal women for us! :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Great minds, etc. (nt)

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. "Why, because my daddy told me so, that's why"

:eyes:

[NorthernSpy]

11. what I tell all the armchair warriors: they can join up or shut up

Isn't it cute how they try to make them sound like such brave little souls -- taking on all those nasty, closed-minded libruls on our own turf:


Being a vocal conservative on a campus that is among the most politically charged in the country, the school itself surrounded by a vibrant ultraliberal community, has proven challenging for some of Gallais' Republican buddies. But Gallais thrives on it. He's fueled by a passionate belief in the party's ideology and a sincere admiration for George W. Bush (he has a cardboard cutout of the president in his rented room at a frat house, and his friends joke that he has a "man crush"). Whenever the unrelenting liberalism of UC Berkeley wears on him, he says, he is fortified by his faith in God (he's an Evangelical Christian) and his love for this country (he'd like to become a naturalized citizen and join the military, not necessarily in that order).


Yeah, right. He'd sure-as-shootin "like to join", buuuut.... So what the hell's stopping the little turd? The US army permits non-citizens to enlist, and even holds recruiting drives in such places as Tijuana. If he and his pals were true believers in the Bush/Cheney Vision, they'd surely have deferred their studies and enlisted by now.

Haven't these college Republicans heard just how short-handed the military is over in Iraq? When, O when will Amaury, Andrea, and the rest of the gang step up to the plate?


It's their war; why don't they wanna go fight it?


"Our speaker today is one of the bravest young women we know," the federation president says. "Not only does she face her contemporaries, but also a faculty noted for its liberalism. ... Please welcome Andrea Irvin!"

Oh, barrrrfff. Hey, Princess: the recruiting station is thataway!




Mary

[Hand]

12. UGH...

What a waste of air. Fortunately, this gets me another post closer to escaping from the 700 Club.

:hippie: