Posted on 11/30/2008 6:43:55 AM PST by outofstyle
the passage of time does a pretty good job of eliminating the youth vote.
I’ll buy that!
As the father of a 19 year old, I hear you. However, they have the right to vote. The Dems have shown how unsophisticated a successful appeal to young voters can be. We can refuse to stoop to that level and concede those votes, or we could consider the advise of the author.
I only have two comments. This country is bankrupt now, not 50 years from now, and the focus of the youth voters as well as the general population will soon be refocused on terrorism just as we were after 9-11. Biden pretty much spelled it out.
This is a GREAT article.
I just hope that the idiots who run the RNC read it and take the advice. But so far they have demonstrated a marked immunity to logic and good advive.
The other issue, which the writer doesn’t mention, is that in most cases, young Americans are subjected to an incerasingly defective and selective anti-American, anti-Judaeo-Christian, anti-traditionalist brainwashing by the leftwing traitors who run the NEA, our elementary and High Schools and the overwhelming majority of our colleges.
Just this morning on FOX news there was a debate between two students at Columbia over the issue of “allowing” the military to run an ROTC program and recruit on Columbia’s campus. One Avi Edelman, a spokesperson for Columbia Democrat Students, and no doubt a stool pigeon for the leftist professors there, said that because the military discriminates against transgender and homosexual persons by the don’t ask, don’t tell policy, they shouldn’t be allowed on campus. I guess he feels we need more male privates in skirts and high heels.
The government - if the Republicans ever take over again - should stop this nonesense. Colleges which refuse to allow ROTC on campus or recruit there should lose ALL their federal aid. ALSO, any student attending such colleges should lose any federal scholarship money they might be receiving. States which provide scholarship dollars to such schools should be informed that ALL federal grant monies will be withheld from said states unless they stop supporting said colleges.
Republicans and conservatives have to be more proactive in unmasking and attacking the subversive elements which run our teaching institutions. Like the Pied Piper, they are STEALING generations of young Americans and turning them into the kind of mindless zombies who would elect an Islamophilic socialist with absolutely no qualifiying experience and close ties with unrepentent terrorists to the Highest Office in the land.
“Academic Freedom” is as absent from the Constituion as “separation of church and state” yet teh Libs have succeeded in bamaboozling an entire nation to the contrary.
The youth vote is a lost cause.
They get ALL of their information from the most liberally biased sources of information. You combine that fact with how younger people haven’t lived and produced enough to know how the real world works, what it’s like to raise children and pay taxes. The liberal propaganda just naturally resonates with them.
I was one of the rare people that was a conservative when I was a teen back during the Clinton years. I was occasionally scorned by teachers and some classmates in high school. Over the years I’ve leaned more toward being a libertarian.
The Reps would do better to focus on the concerns of seniors. The number of those over 65 will double to 78 million by 2030. And they vote in higher numbers.
The problem is in the question. What the hell is a "fair share" when it comes to survival? These kiddies have zero critical thinking skills.
I was a student during the Viet Nam War ers. The actions of the left in college at that time was as bad as today, but the infection had not yet spread to the High Schools and grammar schools which were still run by patriotic, decent Americans. The SDS generation with free love. God is Dead, drugs and anti-war philosophies altered all that later.
There are really only two issues that strongly divide the two parties.
The Right to an Abortion and the Right to Bear Arms.
The left live in fear that we will overturn Roe vs Wade, and the right live in fear that their guns will be confiscated.
I don't have a solution to our differences, but Abortion issue is the elephant in the room with the youth vote.
FWIW, I am totally against abortion...I'm just sayin..
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I disagree.
But they are being directed and propagandized by vicious, anti-American professors and lower school teachers.
SOME of them probably can see through this - the 1/2 who DIDN’T vote for the Obamanation.
The others merely need to be re-educated.
You are half right. They did turn out in low numbers, as usual. However, this is not irrelevant. Those that voted for the first time in there lives voted overwhelmingly Dem. It is likely that these voters now identify themselves as Democrat. Although many will eventually become politically conservative, it will take many election cycles to bring about the transformation. Republicans benefited enormously from Reagan's successful appeal to first time voters.
Carefull. Start talking too loudly about entitlements and many of those on the Right who are already on the dole from that entitlement system will sit at home. It may even create a net loss of voters.
Conservatism isn’t idealistic, and selling it as such will never work. However much we spend and regulate, the Dems claim we can always “do more.”
To get the youth vote, I would emphasize that conservatism allows you to customize your life almost any way you see fit. True diversity is in the marketplace. Progressives in contrast want to subordinate everyone to universal comprehensive plans— they want us all to be the same. I’d even place abortion and gay marriage in this context — we stand for local democracy, not the federal government or judges dictating these issues.
We should have been saying this all along to everyone. But too many conservatives these days are simply Christian progressives who want the federal government to do Great Deeds for Jesus. Our behavior during the Terri Schiavo affair, for instance, made us look like a horde of unprincipled wackos to most of the country.
When they figure out that socialism kills jobs they might also figure out that political freedom requires economic freedom before prosperity can return. But I’m not holding my breath.
GWB soldout on school vouchers in NCLB with Kennedy. Maybe it helped HIM get re-elected but it means kids will be indoctrinated by government worshiping liberals. But many here think short term election strategy (Ayers, Wright, etc McCain) is all that counts, then as the losses pile up they call everyone else stupid or (in some extreme cases) traitors. Not a winning strategy, something democrats HAVE had for four years.
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