Posted on 12/13/2013 9:51:29 AM PST by kobald
Fifty-six percent of Americans ages 18-29 disapproved of the Affordable Care Act, the poll found; when it was worded as “Obamacare,” the disapproval was 1 point higher. And less than a third planned to buy health insurance from an exchange...
..President Obama’s job-approval rating had dropped to 41 percent, about the same as the president’s approval rating among the population as a whole, with 54 percent disapproving. The poll also found that a surprising 47 percent of millennials would recall Obama if they could; 46 percent would not. For a group that has been among Obama’s staunchest supporters, these numbers must be awfully dismaying for the president and his supporters...
..At the same time, any conservative or Republican looking at these same numbers with hope of support for limited or minimalist government must confront other findings that show that while this generation has a healthy--or unhealthy, depending upon your perspective--view of government, millennials also have a profound streak of libertarianism. Specifically, the conservative positions on social and cultural issues that have come to be dominant in the Republican Party in recent years run precisely against the grain of this new generation that is maturing politically.
One national conservative leader recently told me about visiting campus chapters of a national, very conservative organization and canvassing these conservative student activists about issues. Within their ranks, he could not find any that opposed same-sex marriage. Among younger conservatives, the perennial applause line of wanting “government out of our lives” now extends to every room in the house and the ob-gyn’s office as well. The GOP’s strict opposition to abortion and same-sex marriages, along with its other unambiguous conservative positions, severely jeopardizes any progress that conservatives and Republicans can hope to make from their skepticism of the effectiveness of government...
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LOL, this should be entertaining
Popcorn popping
Without social conservatism there is no conservatism.
I have yet to see a social moderate/fiscal conservative who didn’t end up as a full on liberal scumbag.
Pfft. Why not promise them free X-Boxes? We don’t need to appeal to the youth’s distrust of government. Just let them get screwed by the Dems, and they’ll have nowhere else to go. Especially since they’re the first generation in a long time to inherit less wealth than their parents.
2 words. “Horse” and “Pucky”. Just look at how well dumbing down standards worked for mainline (Methodist/etc) churches. People want to stand for something, or at least I do. When the GOP stands for nothing it will go the way of the Whigs (and it’s on it’s way now, IMHO).
"If you ain't socon, you ain't nocon."
So play to Millennials sense of victimhood, entitlement, immaturity, and delusions of grandeur?
America doesn’t have 10 years to screw around with these dingbats. Either they get with the program or in a few years THIS will be the good old days.
+1
So far the NO’s have it :)
HAHA
We must accept no rule of law for immigration, we must accept the destruction of the institution of marriage, we must accept abortion on demand for children, we must accept homosexuals preying on our children...
I didn’t read the article, but I’m guessing this is the social conservatism that they’re targeting. Another day, another ‘roadmap’ that requires becoming liberal lite, and simply chips away at what little sanity there is left.
Conceed to Amnesty.
Conceed to Homosexual Marriage.
Did I miss anything?
Exactly, I even made a bumper sticker some months back.
http://www.zazzle.com/if_you_aint_socon_you_aint_nocon_bumper_stickers-128760081435878497
The last social moderate / fiscal conservative GOP congressman I had (Joe Schwarz) wants socialized abortion and calls the pro life movement “Extremist”. Fiscal conservatism can’t survive without social conservatism.
GWB was villified by the media while the Millennials were reaching the age of majority.
Maybe they're waking up.
Why would the GOP "dial back" on social issues when the youngest generation is the most pro-life?
Well, it depends on what is meant by “dial back.”
Social conservatives win elections….but NOT when they emphasize the social issues. See Reagan 80,84, the CWA in 94, the TP election of 2010 - all of those were victories for social conservatives….who indeed emphasized issues of LIMITED GOVERNMENT.
Food for thought.
Social conservatism is the base for conservatism because it delineates the difference between right and wrong. Without it, there is no rudder or principle and you’re like ... well, like the Republican Party.
That’s true, but you can be so con and still be a no con also….(Huckabee, Santorum, etc…)
Balance…..proportionality…..emphasis…...
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