College Republican live at Washington Post forum, 10/25, 10 am ET (NOW)

[BurtWorm]

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/04/politics_hoplin_102504.htm

Election 2004: College Republicans
Eric Hoplin
College Republicans Chairman
Monday, October 25, 2004; 10:00 a.m. ET

With less than 10 days to go before Election Day, the presidential race is still too close to call. On college campuses across the United States both sides are feverishly courting undecided voters, rallying their base and aggressively pushing their candidate.

College Republicans Chairman Eric Hoplin discusses politics and the 2004 election.

Submit your questions and comments before or during the discussion.




My question:

Eric, did you read Ron Suskind's piece in the New York Times on Bush's faith-based approach to policy-making? Do you agree with one of Suskind's sources that the deliberation of the reality-based is a kind of handicap? If so, how long do you believe it would take the faith-based creators of the Iraq situation to pray their way out of the mess they got the country into there?

[BurtWorm]

1. "It is an exciting time to be a Republican on campus."

Eric Hoplin: It is an exciting time to be a Republican on campus. With the election just 8 days from now, the intensity is about to boil over. What may surprise many is that the college campus, traditionally a bastion of the radical left, is trending toward President Bush.

I look forward to your questions and comments this morning.

[tabasco]

4. Pretty exciting in Iraq too, asshat.

Why don't you get your asses over there and see what your fearless leader has wrought.

[Maddy McCall]

5. He's full of shit.

I don't know where he goes to school, but even on my campus in Mississippi, there is much more support for Kerry.

[BurtWorm]

8. I think he's using the term "trending" very loosely.

;)

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Really? Republicans are gaining ground on a College Campus?

Would that be "Liberty University" or "Bob (Klansman U.) Jones University"???

:eyes:

:silly:

[BurtWorm]

3. Is anyone submitting questions?

He's either the world's slowest typist or he's getting nothing but hostile questions and is taking the Republican tack of answering them by ignoring them.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Probably the latter. :-)

[Maddy McCall]

7. Ah...the draft question.

[Czolgosz]

9. Eric, I have a three part question about Social Security.

Is it your understanding that Social Security operates (and was set up to operate) so that the current tax payers contribute to the support of the current retirees or so that the current tax payers pay money into an account for their own retirement?

If you believe the first model is how Social Security is set up, how can you privatize Social Security without either double taxing a generation or skipping a generation's benefits?

If you believe the second model is how Social Security is set up, would you please direct me to any sources that support your understanding of how Social Security functions?