I just told you that Catholics voted against Bush in 2000, and that polls are in dispute for whether they voted for him in 2004, Gallup and the National Election Studies say they didn’t.
Ted Kennedy was not a boomer, nor was any human involved in Vatican II. No boomer ever voted for JFK, Herman Cain is not a boomer, Sarah Palin is a boomer.
Herman was born in ‘45.
Palin in ‘64.
Palin’s not a boomer, but Herman is.
No Boomer voted for LBJ and his overwhelming liberal majority in ‘64. Johnson started Medicare, created SS Disability benefits, funded a war and massive new social programs by “creative” bookkeeping and thereby set up the oil shocks of the early ‘70s. Nixon signed off on creation of the EPA, but with a Dem congress, all he could really do was to force some minor concessions inadequate to stop the abuses it portended.
The Gen Y hacks just don’t want to blame the really old folks and put the blame where it mostly lies - the generation that won WWII also placed unprecendented faith in the central government. We are all paying the price for it now.
As a bonus, the lie that FDR helped mitigate suffering from the Depression (instead of seeing that his villifying business actually extended and worsened it) was the media’s first major statist victory - and it is paying dividends to this very day.
Obama’s scapegoating of business should be laughed at by all but a fringe, but at least half of the population agrees with him - at least to some extent. Credit for this failure (or strategy) goes to both the media and the public education lobby.