Time: The Right's New Wing

[NeoConsSuck]

http://www.time.com/time/election2004/article/0,18471,686064,00.html?cnn=yes

Diverse and well funded, the next generation of conservatives is winning battles on campus. But not all are fighting for George W. Bush

Earlier this month, a group of students met in Washington to bash George W. Bush, debate the power of multinational corporations and hear a speaker who denounced the Iraq war, the Patriot Act and stricter airport security. A leader of these college kids calls them "the new counterculture," but here's the thing: they aren't liberals. The 185 students were in Washington to attend the 26th annual National Conservative Student Conference.

Many of them think the President has betrayed them by signing bills fattening Medicare and the Department of Education. Though the students embrace small businesses built on enterprise, they criticize big ones for knowing no borders and observing no national loyalties. And while he is fringe even among those students, 40-year-old hip-hop entrepreneur Reginald Jones — who says the Iraq invasion was unconstitutional because Congress never declared war and who decries post-9/11 security measures as infringements on our freedoms — has become one of the most popular figures among the young right. His raucous seminar on the evils of abortion, taxation, the Democrats and "milquetoast" Republicans — as well as the pleasures of NASCAR — didn't end until 2:30 one morning.

[DemOperative]

1. The product of Grover Norquist's summer camps

The little quislings are growing up. The desire nothing more than to incapacitate the government via denial of tax revenues , so that corporations have equal sway over the law.

[WMliberal]

2. time has discovered the existence of libertarians

congratulations. next will be an expose on Ayn Rand :shrug:

[librechik]

3. I hope these bright kids actually use their brains

instead of drinking the Koolaid, like most of that stripe.

A good libertarian is a worthy friend, if they aren't head-copped and brain dead. Wish I knew more of them.