The Last Boomer?

Townhall.com ^ | May 9, 2012 | Michael Medved

[jocon307]

What’s interesting to me is that had McCain been elected he’d’ve been the only person elected to the presidency who was born in the 1930s.

Now I suppose that will never happen, unless Ron Paul pulls some kind of rabbit out of a hat.

[basil]

No more Bushes, no more Clintons!

[basil]

No more Bushes, no more Clintons!

[basil]

There! I said it again! (sorry for the double post....)

[GOP_Party_Animal]

From the Onion

Long Awaited Baby Boomer Die-Off Begins

[Le Chien Rouge]

I love the conservative baby boomers but the only issue I have with them is why didn’t they take lefty hippies like Bill Clinton behind the dorms, in the middle of the night, and kick the living sh!t out of them??

Several good ass kicking of these hippies back in the 60’s might have saved this nation a lot of heartache.

[Biggirl]

Well this younger baby boomer female will be around for a while.

[Biggirl]

From this younger baby boomer, the problem with your question is that, a number of the older ones who are now conservative WERE part of the hippie generation, until they decided to WAKE UP and smell the coffee.

[Nifster]

what makes you think we didn’t? the reason some of these yokels got into politics was simply to get ‘even’

[Biggirl]

Last night’s lost of Richard Lugar is sending a message that conservative boomers will be heard.

[NotTallTex]

Some of us who lived through those turbulent 60’s realized that Professor Reich’s “new head” was really the same old Biblical head, full of sin, deception and greed. Some never figured it out. Today, they are old Democrats and their children.

[Biggirl]

With yesterday’s recent wins, the much more conservative factions is starting to show up.

[JimRed]

The title had me thinking of missile subs. Will we have any left in four years?

[Oratam]

What’s interesting to me is that had McCain been elected he’d’ve been the only person elected to the presidency who was born in the 1930s.

"Forgotten Generation" indeed.

[DustyMoment]

After more than twenty years of dominating the national political scene, the narcissistic children of the ‘60s finally prepare to amble toward retirement, leaving the nation’s highest office to leaders from less polarized and self-righteous generations.

Gee, NOTHING biased or prejuducial in THIS statement!



/sarc

[thulldud]

Some of us who lived through those turbulent 60’s realized that Professor Reich’s “new head” was really the same old Biblical head, full of sin, deception and greed.

I think he called it "Consciousness III". IIRC, his "Consciousness I" was the spirit of the pioneers (and 1776), "Consciousness II" was the "other-directed American" of David Riesman, et al., and "Consciousness III" was what turned out to be the omphaloskeptical Me generation of the Sixties.

[thirst4truth]

WERE part of the hippie generation,

That's right it was the hippie generation, peace and love, rock and roll that broke off from the "radical" leftists that took over the movement. The Ayers, Clinton, Black Panther part of the 60's that went violent on the hippie movement. Must have been the same people that spiked the LSD with stricknine poison.

My oldest brother graduated from high school in 1965 so he was part of this class also. He dropped out of college after the first year and got so caught up in all of this, joined a commune and did not speak to my parents for 10 years. He was young and stupid and a born rebel, but came around eventually, sustained a head injury in an assualt, and lived on assistance till he died at the very young age of 60. Today he would have been 64, miss him so much.

[Vermont Lt]

Obama is two years younger than I.

His ilk in our high school and college classes would have been the target of ridicule. Even though we were at the tail end of the Boomers (born in 1960) a vast majority of us were fed up with the hippie dippy crap of our older siblings.

We could see that Carter was an idiot, and we helped put Reagan in office. We got hit by the gas lines when we were first driving—and that consumed probably a larger percent of our disposable income than any other cohort.

I had to work for Baby boomers and I found the Gen X’ers much easier to deal with. They were less manipulative in their workplace politics, and they were more adaptable than boomers. As an executive it was a nightmare getting Boomers to change any policy or practice. What a bunch of whiners.

I am happy to be done with my generational brothers and sisters.

But, Obama is a throwback to the heavy duty boomers. For us “tail enders” he would have found himself with his underwear pulled up over his shoulders.

[Nowhere Man]

What’s interesting to me is that had McCain been elected he’d’ve been the only person elected to the presidency who was born in the 1930s.

Now I suppose that will never happen, unless Ron Paul pulls some kind of rabbit out of a hat.

They're part of the "Silent Generation," those born between 1925 to 1945, give or take. The closest to the Presidency they've gotten were VP's CHeney (b.1941) and Biden (b. 1942). That's my parents generation too, Dad born in 1937 and Mom in 1938.