Posted on 07/22/2011 5:43:35 PM PDT by Bleh1236
And I think I have a way to attract the youth vote. It could be an ad like this. Air it on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, etc.: I don't get why the youth would vote Democrat considering the direction of the country under Democrats. I have an idea. Ads like these should be on Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network. Kids love junk food, so we can remind them that Nanny-State Democrats want to take it away[we could also do an ad against liberal lawyers suing McDonalds]. We could also do a great ad directed at children for the national debt.
I think this is golden. It's not indoctrination, it's just the truth. And the left does it anyways with things like global warming and it's time to fight back! What do you think? "Michelle and Barack Obama have been campaigning on anti-obesity. They have taken away soda machines and tasty lunches from your schools, taking away your freedom to choose. Yet the Obamas have been seen at steakhouses in Colorado and burger places in Washington DC, consuming upwards of 1000 calories in 1 meal. Barack and Michelle Obama: One set of rules for themselves, another for everyone else. Support individual freedom: tell your parents to vote Republican."
Then, a more serious ad.
"Barack Obama said he wanted "change" in 2008. But look at what that's done to us. Unemployment is over 9%, gas prices are skyrocketing, and the national debt is over 14 trillion dollars. Kids, this election is important because your future is on the line. If we don't solve our deficit problem, America will not be the best country in the world anymore. The country will not be the way it used to be. Kids, tell your parents to vote Republican for a new direction, and stay involved to make sure this won't happen ever again. I'm "GOP Nominee's Name" and I approve this message because it's time for a President who cares about our children."
I know!
Nominate another Governor from Texas! s/
Because they spend 6 to 8 hours a being indoctrinated by liberal teachers. Then it is off to college to get their bachelors in liberal indoctrination. ;-)
That is exactly it. Liberals succeed by keeping certain segments of the population dumb, ill-informed and dependent. They relish in such activity.
Margaret Hoover is the LAST person the GOP should be listening to.
The younger generation is getting screwed in many, many ways. They are going to get stuck with huge taxes to pay off our debt, huge taxes to pay for our social security, inflation, a devalued dollar, and a weak economy because, like Greece, we will be slaves to our debt.
They are being screwed now with exorbitant college tuition, onerous student loans and poor or no jobs when they graduate.
They will have much more difficult lives than our generation. They will have much lower standards of living -- having to work harder for much less take-home pay and then facing much higher prices for foreign goods because of devaluation. They will have a very hard time trying to raise families. Many of them will not be able to afford to have kids.
Their misery index will be off the charts.
But, in order to get them, the conservatives and Republicans are going to have to loosen up on their socially conservative stances.
I haven't read it yet, but Margaret Hoover, a contributor to Fox News, just released a book this week covering this topic, titled, American Individualism
Blurb about the book:
In American Individualism, Margaret Hoover chal-lenges the up-and-coming millennial generation to take another look at the Republican Party. Although millennials rarely identify themselves as Republicans, Hoover contends that these young men and women who helped elect President Barack Obama are sympathetic to the fundamental principles of conservatism. She makes a compelling case for how the GOP can right itself and capture the allegiance of this group. She believes that her party is uniquely positioned to offer solutions for the most pressing problems facing America—skyrocketing debt and deficits, crises in education and immigration, a war against Islamist supremacy—but that it is held back by the outsize influence within the party of social and religious conservatives.
American Individualism is Hoover’s call to action for Republicans to embrace a conservatism that emphasizes individual freedom both in economic policy and in the realm of social issues in order to appeal to the new generation of voters. The Republican Party, Hoover asserts, can win the support of the millennials while at the same time remaining faithful to conservative principles. In a journey that is both political and personal, Hoover rediscovers these bedrock conservative values in the writings of her great-grandfather, President Herbert Hoover, who emphasized the vital importance of individual freedom to the American way of life and who sought to strike a delicate balance in identifying the limited yet essential role the federal government should play in the lives of Americans.
Margaret Hoover advocates a conservatism that is fully consistent with the original impulses of the American conservative movement. It evokes her great-grandfather’s emphasis on the values of civic responsibility and service to others—instincts instilled in the millennial generation. She argues that the Republican Party today must evolve in order to achieve greatness, and that it can do so without compromising its tried-and-true fundamental principles. On the contrary, those enduring principles, if consistently applied, will enable the party to attract a younger following.
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They don't have a clue how much out of the $3.69/gallon of gas goes for taxes and how much actually goes to the oil company.
When they have a cell phone they don't have a clue how many taxes they pay every month and how much actually goes to the carrier.
Actually how much do they pay in tolls every year? Where does this money go?
How much do they pay for their education and how much does the government pull in on taxes to pay for every student going to public schools?
How many of their representatives (including the President) send their kids to private schools? What does the government worker make and what are their benefits THEY the young people are paying. Wouldn’t they like this kind of job with a high salary, vacation, holidays and a guaranteed pension?
What can they expect from their pension plans (if they have one) and how much money to they pay in taxes to fund union pension plans?
What about the cost of using the Internet if the government decides to tax for use and also put an Amazon Tax on all their on-line purchase.
Oh, and what's that tax on the keg they buy at the liquor store?
These young folks don't have a clue how much the government pays in taxes.
THEN ask them how many people do they know who are collecting entitlements? How many people do they know that have everything except a job because they are collecting a monthly check from the Government.
Start them thinking about the “goodies” they enjoy in life and how much money goes to the government, not the corporate jet owners.
Keep in straight forward and simple.
Let them know it's their future we are concerned about. Most of us have lived our lives but want to use our wisdom to show these young folks why we are know as the GREATEST GENERATION and want the same for them.
The chicken and egg thing. Look in the mirror before you speak and condemn.
Have a socialist system collapse similar to the Soviet Union.
One thing is for sure, logic won’t work on the young that have been exposed to our schools. The present indoctrination system is designed to produce students that respond on an emotional level not a logical one and was put in place with help from the KGB and pretty much on auto-pilot ever since. The dems know this and exploit it every election. They target young voters by the groups they fall into and hit their emotional triggers.
One example during the last election: Subscribers to animal rights groups on facebook etc. were flooded with videos of people shooting wolves from airplanes in Alaska with messages that Palin was responsible. This had no logical impact on the election but it created a wave of very motivated first-time voters from a group of people that were too lazy to get involved in politics in the past.
We have to learn to stop expecting the young to respond to our logic and develop arguments that target their emotional triggers instead.
Simply trying to, would be a big help, the same goes for racial groups, talk to them.
There’s a reason older, more experienced people, people who have served in the military, bought a home, worked for a living, who have supported a family, who have put kids through school, who have started a company, paid a boat load of taxes, etc., vote republican.
And there’s a reason why people who’ve never done anythig in their lives other than sit in a classroom and listen to other people’s opinion and, if they have a job, spend their meager paychecks on themselves, vote democrat.
Sorry, but there’s nothing you can do to convince a person to vote republican until tney have sufficient life experences to reach that epiphany on their own. And that’s the way it should be. The republican party is the party for adults. The other party is the one where their ideology was learned in kindergarten and it all still makes sense to them.
The ad should show two teenagers trudging along the side of the highway, exhausted and near collapse:
Teen-1: "Man! Just walkin from Baltimore to Philly is a hell of a deal, man, what the hell would we do if we had to get to Miami??"
Teen-2: "Keep your chin up, bro, we'll be there in another day or so, no more than about 20 miles now. I just wish that LUNATIC Barrack Obama hadn't wiped two years worth of the pipeline of used vehicles in the country with his "Cash 4 Clunkers" scam and then crushed the economy so nobody's buyin new cars anymore. That just eliminates trade-ins and all the ten-year-old cars what teenagers used to buy for a couple, three or four thousand bucks, man, that really sucks..."
IMHO a goo ad campaign would be to put ads out when students graduate from college talking about the dismal job market and the cause of it. It would be the right direction to where they can focus their anger on and vote accordingly in Nov 2012.
I understand your wish to get kids to think and examine issues, and hopefully vote Republican themselves someday. But it is every bit as inappropriate for US to tell kids to get their parents to vote Republican, as it is for the liberal teachers in the school systems to tell their students to talk their parents into voting Democrat. Leave the kids out of it! They don’t deserve to be the unhappy, squished middle of a political sandwich.
Both of my daughters grew up to be Republicans who vote, but it didn’t happen accidentally.
I continually told them that when they grew up and got a job, democrats would take their money and give it to people who didn’t work.
You have to continually explain the news to them, from your conservative point of view.
Plus, expose them to Rush Limbaugh and some Fox News shows.
My brother did not do this, and his daughters seem to be liberals.
Perhaps before the narrative starts you could show a line of kids walking up to the counter at a McDonald's with an Obama-looking kid sort of leading the pack and he's asking all the kids in line what they want and after each one tells him what he or she wants he tells them to go make themselves comfortable and he'll take care of the rest.
After about ten kids have given him their order, he turns to the last kid in line which happens to be some snot-nosed 10-year-old kid who's not even with the group who still has his newspaper-slinging bag over his shoulder and holding up two single dollar bills waiting for his turn, and the Obama-looking kid tells the person behind the counter, "The rich kid will take care of it."
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