Posted on 03/17/2011 10:56:50 AM PDT by qam1
Many of the GOP freshman class elected to the House last year are members of Generation X: Their average age is 47, and many of them formed their political notions during the Reagan presidency.
Reporting from Washington The thing Rep. Scott DesJarlais remembers most about the energy crisis of 1979 is collecting extra gas money from his buddies. The Republican from Tennessee was 15.
When President Reagan was renominated by his party in 1984, Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) was outside the Dallas convention center with his friends, wishing he was a few years older so he could vote for the man he already idolized.
Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) considered himself a Democrat when he went to college in 1993, the first year of Bill Clinton's presidency. By the end of Clinton's second term, Gardner was a small-government Republican, a law student and president of the conservative Federalist Society.
When voters elected 87 new GOP members to the House last year, they chose a crop of young, conservative politicians — more than half in their 30s and 40s — whose perspective differs dramatically from many of their older colleagues. Their arrival has sped up the generational shift in Congress, where baby boomers and their elders are gradually being replaced by members of Generation X.
These politicians belong to the first modern generation of Americans not expected to earn more money than their parents. It's a generation defined by their distrust in institutions and, for many, a deference to markets. They've never been drafted to go to war and they've rarely heard a politician make the case that the federal government can provide the cure for the nation's ills.....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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And all this time I thought I was a "baby boomer" ... I don't know how to act now ...
It’s not just the House. There’s a lot of YOUNG, hardcore GOP Governors too.
The GOP has 12 under 55...
Bobby Jindal.......39
Nikki Haley........39
Scott Walker.......43
Brian Sandoval.....47
Sean Parnell.......48
Butch Otter........48
Chris Christie.....48
Matt Mead..........48
Susanna Martinez...51
Rick Snyder........52
Bill Haslam........52
Sam Brownback......54
The Rats have only three under 55...
Martin O’Malley....48
Jack Markell.......50
Andrew Coumo.......53
As long as it is Michael Reagan and not Ron Reagan.
Children of the 80s to the rescue!
Thank us later.
It was the children of the 50s who actually helped vote in Reagan in 1980. I cast my first vote for President Reagan. I’m not sure we don’t have a greater claim to be “children of Reagan”. You can’t help who’s president when you were a kid. After all, would we want today’s kids to have to be labelled “children of Obama”?
I was a 17 year old high school senior in 1984.
Our obvious democrat civics teacher asked for a show of hands for those who would vote for Mondale. Not one hand went up out of a class of 25..
This class was pretty diverse with a couple of blacks, punk rock kids, new wave goth kids, daughters of lawyers, sons of union men and some white trash.EVERYONE loved Reagan because we all vividly remembered the fricken’ awful Carter years.
I’m betting many of these same kids stayed relatively conservative over the years.
2012 will be Reagan 2.0 conservative movement led by Gen X.
And yet they follow Boehner.
Gen X is more ~1966 - 1981 in my opinion.
I was born in ‘77 and always thought I was a “later” Gen-X’er.
I remember the same thing. I was either in 4th or 5th grade and one person supported Mondale. It was a more republican leaning area but there were some minorities and traditional democrats. That election and 1988 were likely the most lopsided we will see in our lifetime. I don’t see landslides of that type again barring a complete collapse of a candidate in the fall of an election. the country is balkanized now and I don’t see that changing.
If someone is currently 47 they’re a Boomer and not an X-er.
I am proud of being Generation X and part of that time in history when we had REAL US President not this Kenya born pretender LOL!
Unlike Obama we could find Ronnie birth cericicate, his job history and his records at Eureka College
I am proud of being Generation X and part of that time in history when we had REAL US President not this Kenya born pretender LOL!
Unlike Obama we could find Ronnie birth cericicate, his job history and his records at Eureka College
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