Posted on 05/09/2012 5:35:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Kerry- 1943
Gingrich- 1943
Clinton- 1946
GW Bush- 1946
Romney- 1947
Santorum- 1958
Obama- 1961
Rubio- 1971
GP Bush- 1976
‘46-’64 not 43-60
Yeeeeupppp...you got that right BigG!
I fought the hippies in the sixties and not going to quit now!
Medved is sometimes a pinhead, but this example tops any I’ve seen yet.
Having just read your comments, I feel I am much less alone, born in 1959.
I sure hope so.
The baby boomers are the ingratitude generation. Their parents fought in a horrible war that killed millions to defeat fascism, and after they were done with that hell they wanted to go home start a family, work a good job and own a house. And of course their kids (the precious baby boomers) criticized them for that.
To tell you the truth, I feel closer to the Gen X folks, who are not into perpetual radical left stuff.
Was Romney one of those born 9 months after Roswell?
I was thrilled when this news hit. This is what we need to be directing our energies towards.
I’m a boomer (born in ‘55) and although I recall all the turbulence in the 60’s and early 70’s, I didn’t relate to it. Heck, 4 days after HS graduation, I took my Oath of Enlistment for the USAF. I did find out that many of my peers, especially in the college towns (Champaign, IL, Palo Alto, CA) didn’t like GIs and we stuck out because of our military haircuts during an era when long hair and beards were sported by college aged guys. Sometimes it was the shunning and other times it was downright hostility we were greeted with when going into town. That was total BS!
Are you implying that Romny has the mannerisms of a Conehead?
Hillary as well as about a dozen people were born 9 months after roswell which I thought was funny.
The actual definition of boomer is 1946 to 1964, according to all the major measures, feds, census bureau, etc.
Medved is an old hard core left wing propagandist, he was very radical and very involved, who moved right on some issues, all the way to where his right wing heros are candidates like John McCain and Mitt Romney.
About nine and a half million boomers were veterans themselves, the difference is that they were overwhelmingly volunteers during the Vietnam War while the generation(s) who fought WWII were overwhelmingly draftees.
The Democrats became much weaker when the boomers started coming of age during the Reagan years, than they had been during their hay days of 1935 to 1975.
Look at the trajectory of Second Amendment rights for example, the boomers have almost totally rolled back the Democrat successes of the previous generations, even the 1965 Immigration Act is under threat now that the boomers are of government leadership age.
>>>In addition, tens of millions of Boomers who may have taken a more unconventional approach back in the day have come to feel more ashamed than nostalgic about their youthful indulgence.<<<
Ain’t this the truth... for me, at least. In the words of Bluto Blutarsky: “Seven years of college down the drain.” The only really positive impact of that period of my life is that it taught me that the values my parents and grandparents wanted me to follow were actually correct. *sigh*
Who you calling narcissistic? I’m a baby boomer and I’m as far from narcissistic as a person could be. Speak for yourself!
If you want to see “silent generation” (born 1925 to 1945)leadership, then start running the birth dates of the famous Hippies, bands, musicians, activists, etc, of the 1960s and early 1970s, when boomers Sarah Palin and Obama, were little kids.
And that’s barely even close at all. They were/are both Veeps and not even born in the 30s.
It’s weird, isn’t it? 10 years of births and yet not one of those millions (tens of millions?) of people ever lead this country.
I wonder if there are other instances of that earlier in our history.
My parents were older than yours, born in 1926, but they didn’t have children until the late 50s, rather old for that time.
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