[rob777]

Fresh troops are on there way!

[rob777]

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[ConservativeDude]

These are the types of people who almost won it for Reagan in 1976 and did so in 1980.

[kharaku]

Sean Hannity is a young conservative?

[AliVeritas]

Just goes to show...those who have the kids, rule the world.

Let the libs keep aborting...they will be non-existent soon.

[stevio]

I got three in training right now!

[Neoliberalnot]

Rob, this is great news. I sense the movement is growing too. College Republicans is gaining membership on many campuses. Less important than political party is whether students hold the right values versus no values or whatever Hollywood directs. Pray they will figure it out.

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

Good news! Good post!

[JamesP81]

I graduated about six months ago from a secular state university, and I noticed this trend in a big way. When the my campus christian group and the other christian groups got together to do something, huge numbers of people would turn out. At a symposium on terrorism, the audience was most sympathetic to a retired colonel who favored an aggressive prosecution of the war.

OTOH, when liberals had their little rallies, everyone would try to walk around them with their heads as low as possible, so as not to be noticed and thus accosted by some uber-lib with a pamphlet they didn't want to read.

Times are changing.

[ForGod'sSake]

More good news...

Political correctness has permeated so deeply into the contemporary campus that young people, instead of being attracted by it, are so repulsed that they are driven to seek conservative ideas.

I've done my part. Two grown daughters that would kill a lib and eat their children if necessary.

;^)

[THX 1138]

Actually, this was predicted 15 years ago in a book called "Generations: The History of America's Future", by William Strauss and Neil Howe. In it, they theorized that generations ran in a series of four, and that there were similarities of general attitudes in generations that were in the same sequence: in other words, the first in the series of four would be similar to the first in the next series of four, the second would similar to the second, and so on.

Fascinating stuff, and quite convincing. They went back in American history and showed how past generations were similar to more recent ones. For example, the progressive trust busters of the early 20th century (big thinking idealists) line up with the anti-war student protesters of the 60's.

Bottom line: the generation of young people coming of age are most like the WWII generation; willing to sacrifice for something larger than themselves.

Personally, I don't buy this media blather about "young people on a rampage". It's hype, written by an older generation projecting their own deficiencies.

[thoughtomator]

Progressives have been out-hustled and need to fight back – with serious, comprehensive efforts to strengthen progressive voices among young people and to empower new generations of leaders. If progressives do not step up to meet these challenges, they risk widening the conservative advantage for many decades to come.

But could any "serious" person take a look at what the Left does and use the term "progressive" to describe it without dripping irony?

There's only one term that accurately describes the modern Left and that is "international socialist" (historical allusion deliberate).

[Chode]

the Reagan Jugend are our coming leaders... thank God for Ronald Reagan!!!

[texianyankee]

In last year's Presidential election, my 18 year old daughter was eligible to vote for the first time. Mind you, she was a freshman at the Univ. of Houston at that time and I was ambivalent about her politics. She knows mine very well.

Nothing made me more proud when she told me the news - she voted for President Bush! I knew then that my daughter is on the right track.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

And the Right, celebrating permanence and principles and posterity – the requisites for further advances in the next generation – is rising.

Here's the summary definition of American conservatism:

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Those objectives are the Establishment in America; they can be opposed but those who do so pay lip service to them even as they undermine them. Those who undermine the Constitution, do so in the name of the Constitution - by which they mean, not the written document but the authority under whose color they seek to impose upon our liberty.

Those who seek to impose on our liberty do so in the name of liberty, and call themselves "liberals." They are bullies. Hillary Clinton is a bully, as Peggy Noonan pointed out. So are they all. Bullies are arrogant, and bullies are cowardly.

Arrogance is the sin of "pride," but it was understood by the ancient Greeks as opposing virtue when Socrates defined a "sophist" as one wise in his own conceit before the time of Christ. It is arrogant to claim a virtue, as the sophist claimed wisdom - and as the reporter claims objectivity. Such people's arguments always boil down to, "Because I said so - and who are you to question me?"

Arrogance is enough by itself to explain bullying, but bullying generally entails cowardice as well. Since arrogance is inherently unjustified, the arrogant person can scarcely fail to be aware of the risk of oppostion from a courageous person, or from another arrogant person. This phenomenon is clearly evident in the bullying behavior of journalists who - being contemptuous of the weak PR positon of the ordinary citizen, nevertheless studiously avoids giving serious offense to other journalists.

Help in the form of courageous youth may indeed be on the way, but they must run the gauntlet of bullies in the schools, universities, and journalism in order to arrive as adult leaders who will nurture the next generation of lovers of ordered liberty.