It would appear that the republicans are trying an old military tactic that seems to be failing.

That tactic is to get your enemies to fight amongst themselves - weakening each other so that the bystander can come by and compete against weakened enemies.

Were students going to vote Republican? How about women? Both are almost hopelessly lost to the Democrats.

It struck me that the goal might have been to try and get woman and students arguing against each other. The fly in the ointment was the funding mechanisms. By showing their "true colors" in objecting to "taxing the rich" they run the risk of looking more like puppets of an oligarchy.