GOP Collegians are not claiming ”victim
status.” … These young men and women eager for knowledge are merely seeking a balanced presentation of materials. Classrooms today
do not foster a ”marketplace of ideas” — which is at the very core of an education.
Students are being inundated with
left-wing ideology, without an alternative viewpoint presented in the classroom. — CHARLES MESSIN, Rio Rancho, ABQjournal: Letters to the
Editor
The recent furor over too many Democrats at the University reminds me of Spiro Agnew. Young
Republicans may have to google Agnew to find he was a foul-mouthed petty thug who was forced to resign from the Vice Presidency (yes,
before Dick Nixon, conservative Republican, did the same thing). Before Agnew’s fall, he railed against the liberal media and
universities. So did another great conservative, George Wallace.
Funny that we hear the same crap today, more than 30 years later.
Apparently, conservatives believe they narrowly escaped the fiendish programming of their liberal teachers. Who taught you to read, to
write, to reason, to listen? Must have been all those Republican grade school teachers. It certainly wasn’t Rush Limbaugh, Jerry
Falwell, Pat Robertson, ad nauseum. mjh
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering
isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law
and order. — Spiro T. Agnew
[notice it is no longer necessary to append ”ultra-” — just liberalism
is scathing enough.]
On October 10, 1973, Agnew became the
second Vice President to resign the office. Unlike John C. Calhoun, who resigned to take a seat in the Senate, Agnew resigned after
pleading nolo contendere (no contest) to a criminal charge of tax evasion, part of a scheme where he allegedly accepted $29,500 in
bribes during his tenure as governor of Maryland. Agnew was fined $10,000 and put on three years’ probation.
Remembering Spiro Agnew — September 18, 1996