[KidGlock]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-12-16-dem-turks_x.htm

[pikachu]

Poor Toracelli. :-)

[GWB00]

The article should be retitled to ITS TIME TO TORCH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

[SoFloFreeper]

The younger generation of Democrats is exemplified by their "new" leadership: Kim Gandy of the NAGS, for instance. On the cultural side, look at Michael Moore or DefJam Simmons or whatever his name is...no, the new Democrat party is a joke, too.

Even the attempt to re-invent a "moderate" Democrat party by Obama, Harold Ford, and Hillary isn't going to work.

[KJacob]

"This generation is looking for ways to participate because we're tired of losing," says Jamal Simmons, 33.

Yeah if only you had been involved more then Kerry would have won.

[mike182d]

"This generation is looking for ways to participate because we're tired of losing," says Jamal Simmons, 33.

When a man keeps losing a race with the same car, he doesn't just replace the driver... When are Dems gonna' learn that the reason they keep losing is not a lack of persistence but a problem with their actual position?

[You Dirty Rats]

Good luck with that, kids. The 'Rats in power today and their allies in the media and elsewhere (think Jesse Jackson) intend to hold onto power like the Politburo. Your party needs a spring cleaning like Michael Moore needs a bath, a haircut, a shave, a personal trainer, and a lobotomy.

[dirtboy]

"We respect the struggles of the feminist movement, the civil rights movement and Vietnam, but (we) are not defined by those struggles," says Kirsten Powers, 37.

Yeah, but older liberals shoehorn just about everything into those struggles, along with Watergate.

[Melpomene]

Hot link

[andyandval]

It's time to pass torch kool aid, younger Dems say

[FrankR]

"we're tired of losing..."

No mention of the fact that they were in power for about 40 years...

If the "young rats" solution is to go more left, they can forget it...won't work.

[11Bush]

I'm sorry, but mid-30's is not young.

[IamConservative]

As they continue to self destruct, let't remember to continue to not interrupt them.. :)

[Pete'sWife]

Not a great idea.

The dems are so clutzy that the torch will be dropped and will cause a terrible fire.

Just hang on. Everything will be fine.

[Oztrich Boy]

It's time to pass torch, younger Dems say

But what will they say 20-30 years from now?

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
George Orwell

[qam1]

Almost hating to do this, But it is about Gen-Xers so...

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Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social aspects that directly effects Gen-Reagan/Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.

[NeoCaveman]

"We respect the struggles of the feminist movement, the civil rights movement and Vietnam, but (we) are not defined by those struggles," says Kirsten Powers, 37.

Oddly enough she's mouthing the advice I've tried to give the Dems for years. Declare victory and go home when it comes to the sorry stuff they have been kvetching about for 40 years.

[Dan from Michigan]

CNN's exit poll.

VOTE BY AGE BUSH KERRY NADER

18-29 45% 54% 0%
30-44 53% 46% 1%
45-59 51% 48% 0%
60 and Older 54% 46% 0%

The reason the dems lost in 04 was because of the senior vote. That's REALLY bad since that was the democrats number one voting block in 2000. Granted it's becoming less democrat as the FDR generation is passing on, but that's still bad. The dems lost the boomers as well, and I suspect the 18-29 vote is almost exclusively because of the war the the "draft rumors".

But she says there are at most 20 people younger than 40 on the 447-member DNC

Two of the representatives in my county are 30 or under. The Republicans strength came from the 80's. The Dems from the 60's.

And there is going to be no change. Which democrats hold the pursestrings. Hollywood, George Soros, Progressive Insurance.

[qam1]

It's time to pass torch, younger Dems say

It's time to pass the torch on our side also.

The Baby Boomer Republicans in power have been a big disappointment

[Maelstrom]

I read this entire article elsewhere...funnier than a rubber chicken.