Keggers & Guns 4ever!

The City Pages has an article today about the Campus Republicans and college Republicans in general, and it isn't very flattering. Of course, given the subject matter, it would be hard to write this story in any other light.

In the article, we learn that Campus Republicans is dominated by men; women seemed to be turned off by ideas like a plastic fetus Easter hunt, or the group's obsession with guns (and you know what they say about guys who like guns and what they pack personally...) Or, women may just be offended by the fact that conservative guys find this to be the ideal, attractive "woman." I know I would be.

We also see a Republican intellectual tour de force as they explain that Democratic ideas like a smoking ban are social engineering, but Republican social policies like a ban on gay marriage or a ban on abortion are not. Why not? Uhh, because it's not. Right.

The article also mentions Orlando Ochoada, who appears to be a member of the group. This is quite a feat, since Orlando was no longer on campus at the U of M even when I was there, and that is going back a ways. He has got to be in his 30s by now, and yet he still thinks it is great to be a member of a college organization. I'm sure he will be there until they institute some kind of age limit.

The members of the Campus Republicans say that colleges campuses are becoming more conservative. Well, damn. Who wouldn't want to be a member of an all-male student organizations, hanging around with misfits who never seem to be able to leave the group even as they grow old, while talking about fun events like a fetus festival? No wonder they are taking the nation by storm.