Via Wonkette, this passage from a Nation web-only piece on the national convention of the College Republicans is almost too easy to mock, though it is amusing:
By the time I encountered Cory Bray, a towering senior from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, the beer was flowing freely. “The people opposed to the war aren’t putting their asses on the line,” Bray boomed from beside the bar. Then why isn’t he putting his ass on the line? “I’m not putting my ass on the line because I had the opportunity to go to the number-one business school in the country,” he declared, his voice rising in defensive anger, “and I wasn’t going to pass that up.”
But the rest of the article is far more disturbing. Behold the ugly legacy of Dinesh D’Souza et al:
[Chairman candidate Mike] Davidson became the stuff of legend for his activity in the liberal hotbed of Berkeley. As secretary of the California College Republicans, he built dozens of chapters in schools throughout California, helped deliver a record turnout for Bush in the state and organized a now-famous “pro-America” rally in People’s Park. His candidacy has been endorsed by Representative David Dreier and Ann Coulter, who hailed him as a pioneer of “the new McCarthyism.” And with good reason. Last February, in a [David] Horowitz-inspired redbaiting operation, College Republicans at Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California posted fliers on the doors of ten professors’ offices bearing a red star and a warning quoting a 1950s-era state education code forbidding “the advocacy and teaching of communism.” One professor’s crime was displaying a poster for the film Fahrenheit 9/11 in his office window. Soon after, a press release appeared on the California College Republicans’ website identifying the stunt as “Operation Red Scare.”
Yes, in the modern Republican Party, when someone says you’re practicing “the new McCarthyism,” they’re endorsing you!
In the end, Davidson lost to a candidate who was accused of raising funds for the College Republicans under misleading pretenses from seniors with dementia. Classy stuff.
(PS TNR Online has a less colorful piece on the convention here.)