Posted on 06/23/2011 8:47:54 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
Edward Dooley, 20, was so enchanted with candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 election that, although he was too young to vote, he still traveled from his home in Massachusetts to New Hampshire to knock on doors for Obama in the primary. Now Dooley, a political science major at George Washington University, holds a different opinion of President Obama and the Democratic Party in general.
“For me, Obama had a good amount to do with the reason I changed my political opinions,” Dooley said. “I classify myself as a former Democrat, current conservative.”
Dooley said that part of the reason he no longer supports Obama was that Obama failed to deliver on his “idealistic” promises, including those related to the economy.
Dooley is not alone.
In a recent poll conducted by the polling company, inc./WomanTrend on behalf of Generation Opportunity, 44 percent of respondents age 18-29 don’t approve on how Obama has handled youth unemployment, while only 31 percent approve.
“I think (the election) is going to be much closer than people realize, the question is not for whom young people will vote, but whether they will bother at all,” Kellyanne Conway, founder and president of tpc/WT, said of the poll results. “And it’s not because they are apathetic, but because they are realists and they know what they see, which is high food and fuel prices and massive student loan debt, and what they don’t see, which is a well-paying job and a reason to feel optimistic about their futures.”
That is a far cry from 2008, when Obama’s approval rating among young people soared, something Jason Mattera, author of Obama Zombies, partially attributes to online mass media.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I think that it's more likely they just don't bother to show up and vote. Which is OK with me, too.
For instance, rather than echoing the "jobs Americans won't do" and "nation of immigrants" lies, conservatives need to show young people how illegal scumbag aliens are taking money out of our economy...money that could be used to create jobs for American college grads. Instead of playing along with eco-nuttiness, we conservatives need to teach young people about how each green job kills two and a half other jobs (as has been demonstrated in Spain), how wind and solar will never come close to meeting our energy demands, and how AGW is nothing but a hoax designed to steal money away from us and give it to the UN.
I'd love to see a fresh, new generation of conservatives come out of their government school Leftist indoctrination cocoons, but only if they do so because they see the rightness of our philosophy, and the wrongness of what they've always been told. If they're making their metamorphosis just because they can't find a job right now, they could easily shift right back to their Lefty views as soon as the crisis is over. Big Tentism has destroyed the GOP, and turned it into The Stupid Party. Let's not sell out our philosophy in exchange for a short-term political gain in 2012.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Edward Dooley is a good boy. Didn’t vote. No real harm done. I know for a fact he’s in a huge minority at GWU as a conservative. The ones that voted in ‘08 for the kenyan and have changed their minds since, I do not give slack. No excuse for that kind of stupidity.
Actually, my first vote went to jimmah too, but back then, there were not many Republicans in Texas. The dims back then are now much more conservative. I think there are a lot of disillusioned yutes that will vote against zero or stay home.
Well, the more the merrier but what the hell did Dooley think Obama's 'idealistic promises' were in 2008?
The problem with "idealistic promises" is they lead to "good intentions" which inevitably result in "unintended consequences."
It takes a CARTER to get a REAGAN!
I was exposed to the left. and was heartless at a very young age.
This is why you cannot rely on the youth vote. People that age are often quite fickle in voting patterns, or in anything really. Their brains have not yet matured to the point of being steady and consistent.
A ‘teachable moment’ coming up on July 4. I will stand before my wife’s entire family, around 40 strong counting everyone from my wife’s mom down to the great-grandchildren, before we fire up the pyrotechnics, to expound for 1 minute on freedom. I did this two years ago, too, with my stars and stripes high on a hand-held pole. We all must grab our family by their shirts and explain that we must fight for Americanism and reject those who would put us in chains. We are in the fight for our very lives.
The “youths” not voting is almost as good as getting them to vote conservative.
But I’m sure the Democrats will have some way to make Obama “cool” again...
My first vote was for Nixon in '72. And I had the chance to tell him that to his face in a hotel lobby in Prague when he was traveling in Eastern Europe as an "elder statesman", the year before he passed away. If you were "heartless" to vote for Reagan in '80 my vote as an 18 year old for Tricky Dick must make me a prince of darkness.
I was raised in a liberal democrat home. I also came out of high school in the middle of the Carter years. I would msot likely be classified as a Reagan democrat who ever went back. I see this in my 19 yo and 17 yo nephews.They are very vocally anti Obama.
I guess I’ve been heartless since about age 6 or 8... Thats when my dad taught me the difference between communism and free enterprise using my allowance and my sister’s...
A mugged Liberal becomes a Liberal that has been mugged. It was Bush’s fault, their fault for having something the mugger wanted. If Bush had not disfranchaised and repressed the mugger, he would not have mugged me is the way their thought process works. A mugged Liberal becomes a Liberal with a sore head, nothing more and much less.
You’ve been a very good influence!
I have actually become slightly more “moderate” with age. I went from “me, mine, and to heck with everybody to else” to “there, but for the grace of God, go I.”
But at least, I only do it with my own money and don’t vote that way.
The “yutes” may not vote R, but they may well not vote at all.
That's an all-too-common progression from liberalism, to conservatism. The next step is a self-determined examination of 'the other side', which is propelled by sheer anger and disgust at their former party.
I know that path well. I walked it myself.
LOL! Actually, it was my ultra-conservative son! (but I helped!)
“I guess I was heartless when my first vote was for Ronald Reagan in 1980. “
That makes two of us.
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