re: College Students Less Tolerant of Conservatives

Not talking about Rice specifically but they are less tolerant of true conservatives or dumbass conservatives who refuse to give an inch on gay marriage/social issues?

Link?

First of all, the stats show that the more educated you are the more likely you are to have liberal ideologies.

Second, in part due to the right's own doing, many people (and especially the younger, educated Americans) associate republicans/conservatives with religious intolerance and ignorance.

As a highly educated person who believes in small government and fiscal conservatism (and loathes liberal principles in both areas), watching people mock all conservative ideas under the caricature of the religious and socially conservative right is frustrating but at the same time is a largely self-inflicted issue on the part of the republican party. The party needs to get back its fiscal roots, ease off the social issues and make an active effort to distance themselves from the association with educational ignorance.

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Actually that would be a liberal:

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Only a conservative could come up with something so clever and zippy

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(You idiots are so caught up in red team vs blue team game, you're lost, miserably lost. You're perfectly programmed beings. You've fallen into the trap that allows them to divide and conquer. What you think about the democrat-republican thing is all wrong).

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This isn't too far off.

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That's because they're educated.

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First of all, the stats show that the more educated you are the more likely you are to have liberal ideologies.

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Get off your high horse, we said the same thing.

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Clinton was a sellout from inauguration. Good man for owning up to his mistakes, even if they did murder small town industry.

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And yet you give the republicans that passed the laws that Clinton signed a complete pass

This only happens at the universities that are very liberal. Most normal universities the students don't care as long as they pass the class and find a place to get drunk.

Liberals also have a tendency to get in an uproar vocally over things than conservatives. They are the masters at protesting

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Fair point, but there aren't many(any?) Republicans to look to as examples of advocating small government and fiscal responsibility. They talk the talk, bur rarely walk the walk.

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Agreed

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Fair point, but there aren't many(any?) Republicans to look to as examples of advocating small government and fiscal responsibility. They talk the talk, bur rarely walk the walk.

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The ones that do, are labeled hate mongers and extremists.

There is a significant portion of the R party that I have written off. They are no different than most of the D party. They're all in it to line their pockets, or those who got them where they are. The Reids, McCains, Grahams, Feinsteins are the problem, but too many idiots buy into the class warfare arguments and have allowed their thought process to become, Dems are for blacks, and Rep's are for big business. When in truth, Dems are for keeping blacks under their thumb for their blind votes and both are for kickbacks. Both parties disgust me at this point. I honestly think the country is past the point of getting things back in order, due to the corruption in Washington and kinda wished it would hurry up and burn so that it can be rekindled from the ashes.