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Valparaiso University => General VU Discussion => Topic started by: setshot on January 14, 2012, 01:20:02 PM

Title: Valpo,Gettysburg and Ron Paul
Post by: setshot on January 14, 2012, 01:20:02 PM
Met Ron Paul at a "Meet the Candidates" event here in the Lowcountry. Although I'm not a supporter of his,we did talk about his under graduate days at Gettysburg College and my undergraduate days at Valpo. He knew our school,but was particularly interested in the athletic successes at Baylor U.including Football, women's basketball (#1),and Scott Drew and men's basketball (#4). Small world.
Title: Re: Valpo,Gettysburg and Ron Paul
Post by: vu72 on January 14, 2012, 09:33:30 PM
Pray tell, what were you doing at a republican event?  ???  Changing your tune after the last 3 years?   :o  Tell us, inquiring minds want to know!   :crazy:
Title: Re: Valpo,Gettysburg and Ron Paul
Post by: vuweathernerd on January 14, 2012, 09:39:08 PM
Quote from: vu72 on January 14, 2012, 09:33:30 PM
Pray tell, what were you doing at a republican event?  ???  Changing your tune after the last 3 years?   :o  Tell us, inquiring minds want to know!   :crazy:

probably trying to tell them to drop to d3
Title: Re: Valpo,Gettysburg and Ron Paul
Post by: valporun on January 14, 2012, 11:53:00 PM
Quote from: vuweathernerd on January 14, 2012, 09:39:08 PM
Quote from: vu72 on January 14, 2012, 09:33:30 PM
Pray tell, what were you doing at a republican event?  ???  Changing your tune after the last 3 years?   :o  Tell us, inquiring minds want to know!   :crazy:

probably trying to tell them to drop to d3

nerd, that was a good one, I have to admit. 72, oh would Rick might have said about this political talk, if he was still around these parts?
Title: Re: Valpo,Gettysburg and Ron Paul
Post by: Marion on March 03, 2012, 07:59:54 PM
Al Troast gave me my deep seated respect for Dan Quale.  Dan was one of the first to feel the ire of the liberal elite media.  He helped make politics more accessible to the Joe Sixpacks.  I guess I can say that VU prepared me to see the importance of the Tea Party and radically changed my personal outlook.  THANK YOU VU!
Title: Re: Valpo,Gettysburg and Ron Paul
Post by: Ralph on March 04, 2012, 05:45:53 PM
Quote from: Marion on March 03, 2012, 07:59:54 PMAl Trost gave me my deep seated respect for Dan Quayle.  Dan was one of the first to feel the ire of the liberal elite media.  He helped make politics more accessible to the Joe Sixpacks.  I guess I can say that VU prepared me to see the importance of the Tea Party and radically changed my personal outlook.  THANK YOU VU!

I remember when Erik predicted Quayle would win the 1996 GOP nomination for President. :o

I was so much older then.  I'm younger than that now.
Title: Re: Valpo,Gettysburg and Ron Paul
Post by: johnny_fetla on March 05, 2012, 10:49:15 PM
The conservative values VU presented to me was a stark and often harsh change from the liberal ideology that my father a union boss with the AFL CIO brainwashed us with.
I can't recall but perhaps it started with Professor Shaw; the yearning for the truth in our overly liberal based society.  It ended with joining Sig Taus, a secret society of well to do hard line conservatives whose inner circle cleared the path to pure capitalism.