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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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(D) Adam Frisch
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(D) River Gassen
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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March 15, 2013 01:20 PM UTC
38 Comments
Meh. I'm glad there are Rs who admit conservation SHOULD matter. How about a plan to make it really matter?
Cap and Trade is somewhat of a free-market approach to mitigating climate change.
IIRC, cap and trade to mitigate acid rain was proposed by Rs, and worked better than anyone thought it would.
I am shocked that Colorado Pols thinks it's even possible for a conservative to be intelligent. Kudos.
you should not bother to await such a finding on your own intellect
You make it hard to even give them kudos.
don't forget those questions BC asked of you
Of course you find it shocking.
You assume everyone is as narrow minded, ignorant, and dismissive of anyone not within their own idealogical echo chamber as you are.
Surprise. We Libby Libs know there are a number smart, reasonable, genuine conservatives out there. You're just obviously not one of them.
A great example of the benefits of affirmative Action. C.U. doesn't have many professors with a conservative viewpoint and this will improve the school.
Have you done a survey of the economics, business and finance departments?
@gaf
1000+
Couldn't some argue that this might be a liberal affirmative action program?
Only if you consider women a minority.
Gender studies can be studied by men.
True. So what's your point?
My point is that gender studies will tend to attract more liberals just as austrian economics would attract more conservatives if it were taught at more universities.
I'm still not sure what point you're trying to make. Are you saying that gender studies is not worthy of a major? Are you saying that any major that is more attractive to one political leaning or another is an example of affirmative action? Or are you saying that gender studies is tainted by politics simply because it attracts liberal students?
What I am saying is that if the program above is an "affirmative action program" for Conservatives than Gender Studies and many other college programs can be looked at the same way for liberals.
You may be saying it, but you're not supporting it.
You'd need to show that a particular political viewpoint is a requirement to teach in the field. You haven't.
Exactly. A political science professor of any ideology could teach a course about conservative philosophy. This job is totally different: it's a person specifically hired to advocate right-wing views. If Hayward ever applied any rigorous study to his field and concluded that conservative ideology wasn't the solution to all the country's problems, he'd be fired from this job faster than Ward Churchill.
Good luck getting tenure in gender studies if you oppose the idea that the gender gap is fully due to discrimination. Actually, good luck in getting tenure in many academic positions with that view.
Actually, Elliot, I think you'd be surprised by what you hear coming out of gender studies. My wife is a climate scientist and has served on several committees looking at recruitment and retention of women in science. The gender gap is real and its roots are quite complex. Overt discrimination certainly exists, but it's only one factor out of many. This isn't new, though it sounds like it may be to you.
You're so right. You could never get to be president of Harvard!
Clearly so.
Only liberals care about the empowerment of women.
Idiot,
Is every cause you care about worthy of a university degree? Should we have a university degree in union organizing/busting? Or a university degree in Red Sox/Yankees studies? And whoever said that gender studies was undisputedly about "empowerment" of women?
Well clearly empowerment of women is something the right considers to be leftie. Also viewing "affirmative action" as a dirty word (phrase really) is a rightie attitude. Seems that if, for the sake of intellectual diversity, the University feels the need to make a special place for a conservative and specifically conservative thought, that would meet the definition affirmative action. So what? It's not an insult, just a description of a policy.
It doesn't bother me in the least. In spite of the admittedly liberal bent of a majority of college professors, the majority of white male graduates seem to come through mainly Republican so if there's a brain washing effort going on it's not working very well. I doubt affirmative action for conservatives will be much more successful with brainwashing the liberal kids. I find this a mildly amusing but no big deal.
What WILL be interesting is when the right attacks Hayward as a "liberal". Bound to happen if he is a thoughtful conservative
I'm wondering why studying the history of gender or racial inequality in this country and others is "empowerment" or "a cause"……so that the simple information is apparently advocacy of some sort.
David, this begs the question, why are so many scientists left-leaning in their politics? I recently read, and maybe it was discussed here, that as recently as the Nixon years, the political affiliation of scientists was evenly split. now it's decidedly one-sided.
It used to be that science informed policy. In today's republican party, that is no longer true. Today's GOP rejects science, which naturally drives scientists to the Democratic Party.
Scientists aren't necessarily pushed into becoming Democrats. More likely, children raised in households that don't respect science or value critical thinking, are much less likely to pursue that as a career.
There's a lot more money to be made in Crony Capitalism on golf courses and pyramid sales schemes than there is in pursuing painstaking research and disciplined thought required to make scientific breakthroughs.
I'd agree with the first statement, but not the second. After all, red states tend to be those farthest from the centers of power, finance, and wealth. To borrow a righty talking point, Republicans are more likely to be takers than makers.
For myself, the jury is still out.
I wouldn't call AEI "arch conservative," Pols. Mainstream conservative is more like it, unlike arch-conservative like Heritage Foundation or libertarian like CATO.
Yep.
Why did you use a symbol for Cato's O?
If that's directed to me, Elliot, I don't know what you mean. I did uppercase Cato, which was an error, but used no symbol. If you're referring to my avatar, it's a duck-billed platypus.
True but where are they going to find someone both sufficiently ignorant to please the far right and sufficiently intelligent to be a professor? And never mind probably being a RINO by today's GOP standards. Isn't going into a profession not likely to put you into the top .01% income-wise proof that you're a bleeding heart loser?
If he were a real righty wouldn't he be pursuing wealth the old fashioneded way? As a silver spoon scion in the business of taking over troubled companies, loading them with debt, sucking profit out of them to park offshore and leaving them to die while slashing jobs here and sending them overseas?
The fact that he's a professor in the first place makes him highly suspect as a true contemporary era conservative. It's a loser job. It's not taking full advantage of the opportunity society. Heck, a very successful plumber could make as much or more. He might even have liberal friends! He might even have drinks with them. Dinner, even, perish the thought! The rightie blogs better get on this right away.
Oops. Messed up and used wrong box, I guess. I meant this as a reply to Gray way back where he says it will be interesting to see when the right starts attacking this affirmative action conservative prof as too liberal. Apparently quite a few of us regulars are clueless because this seems to happen to a lot of us here. Could have sworn I hit the right reply.