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Today I tabled for the College Republicans in an effort to recruit some of the freshman for campaign work this fall. It has been a while since I’ve tabled, but the experience was remarkably similar. I saw some excitement and I was surprised by a few “closet Republicans” who told me they were glad to see the Republicans on campus. Then there were the special cases. The people (mostly adults) who really want to express their opinions about John McCain to me. Usually with one particular finger or the very helpful advice that I should “f-ck off” and “pull my head out of my ass”. Another told me “Country First! Country LAST!”. I still am not quite sure whether she meant that she wants to put her country last, or that she believes McCain does. I would have to assume the former due to the mountain of evidence contradicting the latter.

I have come to believe that the Democrat Party is the party of anger. I can understand frustration- certainly I felt frustrated after the national embarrassment of the philandering Bill Clinton as our president for eight years. Yet Republicans did not respond by putting bumper stickers on our car marking his last day in office. Republicans generally are not going to walk by and engage a young Democrat in a rude manner. After all, this is not a totalitarian society. Differing viewpoints should be welcomed, particularly on a college campus. While I was initially offended by such a virulent reaction, I look at it now as a positive sign that the Democrats are running scared. They have no unifying ideology, a candidate who is flailing, and a boring Vice Presidential candidate paired up with the latest political sensation. Given that set of circumstances, it is understandable that they would behave like petulant children rather than as passionate, mature adults.