Help us Democrats celebrate - please?

November 9, 2006 5:31 PM

Ideas for a college-aged-Democrats victory party?

A bunch of volunteers for various Democratic campaigns, mostly around college-age, mostly victorious, partying up their good fortune and commiserating the few losses in an NYC dorm. Already planning a highlight reel of the most delicious Dem acceptance/GOP concession speeches, and maybe a West Wing drinking game...any other ideas?

posted by Ash3000 to society & culture (19 comments total)

Drink to the health of Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, and George Allen.
posted by orthogonality at 5:35 PM on November 9, 2006

Beer, hunch-punch, pizza, music. These are the magical secret ingredients that when mixed with college students create the mysterious substance we know as party.
posted by Pollomacho at 5:36 PM on November 9, 2006 [1 favorite]

An elephant piñata
Pin the tail on the democrat
Daily Show/ Colbert Report highlight reel
posted by idiotfactory at 5:37 PM on November 9, 2006

Oh! Decorate with leftover campaign chum, of course.
posted by orthogonality at 5:39 PM on November 9, 2006

A Dean Scream contest, Rummy, Free drinks for ROTC!,
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 5:57 PM on November 9, 2006

Oh, or what we did: Sushi and Lattes! Or Brie - you know, relishing the liberal eliteness of it all.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 6:06 PM on November 9, 2006

Anyone who wears any red clothing is required to remove it.
posted by rossination at 7:00 PM on November 9, 2006 [1 favorite]

Make new labels for your beer bottles - Pelosi Ale, Kennedy Lager, Chuck Schumer Light...
posted by kdern at 7:11 PM on November 9, 2006

Really? Ideas for a college age party? Is there any idea that's not "keg of beer" thats actually better than "keg of beer"?
posted by Kololo at 7:15 PM on November 9, 2006

rossination does not take it far enough. Anyone whose clothing is not the *exact* shade of blue on $SOME_CANDIDATE's poster must remove it. Then deal with the keg of beer.
posted by jet_silver at 7:20 PM on November 9, 2006

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity told me about you defeat-o-crats. I think you should just keep doing what you always do. Draft a proclamation formally surrendering to Al Qaeda. Pee on church buildings. Destroy some marriages. Offer free third trimester abortions all night long, and laugh during the procedures. Drink lattes, eat sushi and drive Volvos. Pass out ACLU membership cards. Speak French. Put your apostrophes in the right places. Blaspheme. Play games with blindfolds on to represent how your irrational hatred for the President has blinded you to everything else. Start a petition to let everyone out of Guantanamo Bay and make them kindergarten teachers. Start impeachment proceedings. Worship Satan. Smoke a lot of joints. Listen to Barbra Streisand music. Utterly fail to support the troops in any way. Wrap up by destroying the foundations of American society. Give prizes for the most creative/effective methods of said destruction.

And, yes, have many, many kegs.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 7:30 PM on November 9, 2006 [6 favorites]

Pater, you've just planned my weekend for me. Awesome!
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 8:02 PM on November 9, 2006

I second Pater Aletheias, but would push the envelope quite a bit further. Turn major American landmarks into pinatas and fill them with little candy people. Have an ample supply of pot on hand, and print American flags on the rolling papers. Hold fake gay marriages, complete with a leather-clad Justice of the Peace. Hand out condoms with little post-its saying "For ages 12 and up." Play video games, and then steal a car, pick up a hooker, and kill her. Make it a costume party where everyone must dress up as a) flamboyantly gay/lesbian, b) an aborted fetus or c) a suicide bomber. Parade down the main drag (ha ha) holding giant banners saying "Clinton/Obama '08." Make sure at least four or five people have eaten a baby by the end of the night. Oh yeah, and have an orgy.

Or fuck it all and just drink. Taking back the House and Senate is a fine thing, but when you're actually having the party it won't even compare to a good kegstand or at least a couple of pints. You think the rank-and-file Democrat staffers went out and played a West Wing drinking game to celebrate? No! They all got shitfaced! And so should you!
posted by chrominance at 9:43 PM on November 9, 2006

Donkey Kong!
posted by rob511 at 9:59 PM on November 9, 2006

Bring a republican and turn him into a pinata. Whip him until his ass is in a "red state".
posted by tabulem at 10:21 PM on November 9, 2006

You know, doing something ironic like what Peter suggested would totally fall into the trap of doing stereotypically liberal elite ironic things. And you wouldn't want your party to be cliche right?

So you clearly what you are going to have to do is have a joint protest against abortions and Guantanamo, while drinking lattes and driving around in a convoy of SUVs.
posted by public at 2:04 AM on November 10, 2006

Please, consider that raising the level of political dialogue could very well start with you. Please be respectful of people of good will -- most Republicans probably are of good will -- who really believe they are doing what is morally right. If you don't want to make the world a better place by killing or enslaving them, you'll have to *convince* them that your way is better, and they'll be much more likely to listen if you treat them like human beings. Even if you're in a group of people who share your beliefs, disrespect easily becomes a habit, and habitual disrespect leads to the inability to talk with other people as humans (rather than just seeing them as idiots or evil).

Am I a huge killjoy? You can still have fun, congratulating yourselves on all the hard work you've done. But please bear in mind that those who lost probably worked just as hard (in aggregate) and have some compassion for them.

So, I guess my suggestion might be something along the lines of a toast to the honor of your opponents. You may wonder about the honor of some of them, but please consider: no one, thank goodness and them, is going to declare the election illegal and then take to our streets with guns. We can trust them to accept the results and try to work within the system, or even around the system, but not violently. Yes, some have questionable ethics and motivations, but on the whole, the Democrats were able to take power by convincing people to vote for them, without taking up arms. I am so very grateful for that.

Once, when I was an undergraduate, I was invited to a meeting of the college [major political party]. The attendees kept making remarks about what how they had the best party on campus; making remarks about how lame, in various irrelevant ways, the other campus political organizations were, and basically trying to make their perhaps tame-seeming mission seem more fun and hip. They completely failed to impress me, particularly with their cheap shots at other party candidates, and so I didn't even consider joining them. Whether negative ads work for getting votes or not, attitudes like that probably won't appeal to a certain type of person who might be very useful to your cause.
posted by amtho at 8:56 AM on November 10, 2006

Sorry to post so late - my connection stopped working yesterday.
posted by amtho at 8:58 AM on November 10, 2006

If it's not too late: blue jello shots!
posted by slenderloris at 1:48 PM on November 10, 2006