Ivy League Conservatives

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Per usual, Michelle Malkin hits the nail on the head in today’s Hot Air post regarding the bomb set off in front of a military recruitment center that rattled New Yorkers and inflamed real patriots. This isn’t the first time a military recruitment center has been targeted by idiots liberals political zealots. Malkin illustrates several anti-military acts of protest from 2003 to the present that have attempted to inspire change. Many of these disturbances were caused by college students on college campuses.Why the preponderance of so many anti-war sentiments in college-aged youth? There isn’t a draft; anyone who serves in the military does so willingly. Perhaps it’s because for 4-6 hours a day, 5 days a week, college students are inundated with vocal professors’ liberal political agendas. How can I assume they’re liberal, you ask? Well, if you went Ivy, you know better. Consider this report from 2002, published on the Accuracy in Academia website and commissioned by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Here’s a section from the first portion of the study:

Commissioned by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, the survey revealed that of those Ivy League faculty that voted in the 2000 presidential election, more than 80 percent voted for Democrat Al Gore while only nine percent chose Republican candidate George W. Bush. By contrast, the popular vote in America was evenly divided, with 48% going to each candidate.

The other findings of the poll are similarly startling, and reveal how wide the breach is between the views held by Ivy League professors and the beliefs held by ordinary Americans. When asked about a number of highly controversial political issues, including abortion and slavery reparations, the professors consistently gave answers far to the left of the American political mainstream.

On the issue on the recent tax cut, only 13 percent of the Ivy League faculty polled believed that the federal budget surplus should have been returned to the American public as a tax cut, while 67 percent of Americans supported a substantial tax cut. Similarly, on the issue of school choice only 26 percent of the professors believed that “the government should give parents the option of using government-funded school vouchers to pay for tuition at a public, private, or religious school of their choice” compared with 62 percent of all Americans.

An examination of faculty views on the highly politicized issue of abortion displayed a similar disparity. Thirty-seven percent of Ivy League professors believed that abortion should be “legal under any circumstances” compared with 26 percent of all Americans. Even more strikingly, only 1 percent of the professors believed that abortion should be “illegal in all circumstances” while 17 percent of Americans at-large agreed with that statement.

And on a somewhat less serious note, it’s quite telling that liberal minds have a stranglehold on the Ancient Eight schools when an innocent question like this one appears on third-party college admission website CollegeConfidential.com:

Question: Would becoming a campaign worker for the Bush presidential campaign or another conservative candidate’s campaign–or founding a Young Republicans Club at one’s college–hurt transfer-admission chances at Ivy League schools, which tend to be fairly liberal?

They answered No, citing a true statement: Ivy League schools love diversity.