'Dr. Fad' envisions Adopt-a-Vote giving kids a voice

Los Angelos Times ^ | July 13, 2004 | Samantha Critchell

[StayAt HomeMother]

"... Children and parents enter into an agreement pledging that the parents will vote according to their children's preference as long as the children have done their homework. ... Youngsters are more true to their convictions than grown-ups. They're also more likely to care about the future and issues affecting the future, including the environment and Social Security."

[StayAt HomeMother]

The article refers you to a site where you, too, can pledge to your middle school students that you will vote the way THEY tell you. "ADOPT-A-VOTE is urging parents to sign up and pledge their vote for their presidential election for their child(ren). They will vote for the candidate of their child’s choice, not theirs. All parents have to do is print out the provided Adopt-a-Vote contract, and sign it and give it to their child as a way to prove to them how much their opinion matters."

http://www.kidsvote2004.com/kidsvote/home.nsf/Parents?OpenForm

[Fintan]

Gee, I can't help but wonder who the NEA will tell the teachers to tell the kids to tell their parents who do vote for...

Any parent who buys into this socialist pap doesn't deserve to reproduce...

[TXBSAFH]

I can just see it now, President Britany Spears.

[jude24]

Youngsters are more true to their convictions than grown-ups. They're also more likely to care about the future and issues affecting the future, including the environment and Social Security."

They also don't know what the real world is like.

One of the benefits of our voting age is that there aren't very many voting-age people who haven't had the experience of opening up their paycheck and gasping in horror at how much is withheld from their check.

[StayAt HomeMother]

You might want to let the Public School ping list know about this one.

[Happygal]

Well the parents could explain it to the kids.
Give them their pocket money, and if they say they want to vote Kerry - take half of it back from them and say, taxes suck don't they! ;-)

[cake_crumb]

Well gee, let's stop the coy games and turn the running of this country over to those who know best: the 12 and under age group. </sarcasm>

The geniuses who came up with this idea haven't done their own homework. It's a fact that children who are forced into a role reversal with their parents suffer permanent emotional trauma. That may be what the authors are looking for, but in my own experience working with troubled teens, the half that don't self destruct become CONSERVATIVE.

Why? The usual reason. They don't want to be as screwed up as their parents are and are determined not to make the same stupid mistakes. In this case, their thinking is correct.

[beef]

What a bunch of neo-com morons.

[cake_crumb]

"Gee, I can't help but wonder who the NEA will tell the teachers to tell the kids to tell their parents who do vote for..."

If the kids are in charge, who needs the teachers? Who needs the NEA? Close all the public schools! Lets use that money to guarantee that every citizen has a computer, internet access, wireless access and gets dessert before every meal!! The excess will be spent on Mall Vouchers!!!

[petro45acp]

WHISKEY TANTO FOXTROT!?!?!?!?!?!?

Dr Fad should stick to wall stickers and silly slinkey eyeball glasses!!!

This country, this Republic was conceived and intended for adults. To be a government that protected self rule, BY ADULTS. NOT to be the plaything of (as mentioned earlier) children who have been told what to say by teachers who have been told what to say by the NEA who have been told what to say by the DNC (who defer to lenin, marx and mao). We fight these battles every year, and it is getting worse.

The franchise of citizenship comes with adult responsibility because it was created and acquired under the auspices of adults. Anyone who would allow their kinder to decide for them is shaming the time and effort they went through becoming an adult. I may not have all the answers, but I am certainly not going to take advice from someone who is still shaping opinions (with my help and coming along nicely thank you)!

GRRRRRR Whew! </outrage>

[KarlInOhio]

Youngsters are more true to their convictions than grown-ups.

Children are more likely to want a pony without caring about how much it costs to buy, feed, house or how much it work it will take to clean up after it or get rid of it if you don't want it any more. It's a lot easier to push a liberal agenda to people who don't look at the true costs of the government.

Maybe we should just turn our country over to people with the self control of 10 year olds. Wait a minute - we already tried that in 1992 and 1996:

[HungarianGypsy]

Scary! This runs along the lines of a dream I had a few weeks ago. I had a dream that John Kerry was trying to talk to my 10 year old son, because he was wanting to campaign to children. I told him if he came near my son I would pull his lip up over his head. Interesting dream!

[cake_crumb]

"I had a dream that John Kerry was trying to talk to my 10 year old son, because he was wanting to campaign to children. I told him if he came near my son I would pull his lip up over his head. Interesting dream!"

Sure is. I want to have one where I actually SUCCEED at pulling his lip up over his head.

[longtermmemmory]

I think it is more an effort to use the indotrination of minds full of mush from the publik skools (via: GLSEN, PFLAG, NEA, ACLU, etc).

How many single mothers would be push overs to allow this? Sadly too many. I have seen the courthouses full of disfuntional mothers who "want to be their daughter's/son's friend." (though not so much with the son because he reminds him of that bastard who got her pregnant)