[RockinRight]

I've actually found that today's high school and college age kids are more conservative than 20 years ago.

[RoadTest]

Uh-hu. Teeners (the majority) take after their peers, the media and the professors/teachers.

As they get older, they find out that what they think is more important than what others think of them.

When we are old we know that what others think of us doesn't matter at all.

One exception: I meet surprising young people now and then and read about them - they have their feet on the ground and their heads on straight right through their youths. Every generation seems to have them. Good thing.

[betsyross1776]

Ah I hope God willing I live to see these flaming liberals repeat the words "I am a conservative!'Would be worth getting old to see.

[adorno]

Voted for LBJ.

Less than a year into his presidency, I became a Republican and couldn't wait for the next election to cast him out. Was democrat until LBJ, Republican ever since. I still can't forgive myself for all the liberal progaams which I helped to bring about by voting for the wrong person. Never again!

[rockthecasbah]

Too funny

[avacado]

That would make an EXCELLENT college commencement speech! Imagine Condi Rice giving that speech! What a hoot!

[Doomonyou]

Copied and emailed to Doomonyou Jr., graduating from High Screwel this year. He can hand it out to most of his pinhead (liberal) classmates.

[Talking_Mouse]

I was raised a liberal. I remember, in second grade, wondering why a political party would call themselves the dammrepublicans, as they were always referred to in my house.

My first paycheck, from McDonald's, produced "Whose FICA and whats he doing with my money?" However that didn't turn me into a conservative. The Lord opened my heart on what abortion really was but that didn't turn me into a conservative (even though I voted for GWB because he was pro-life) - it just made me a pro-life liberal even more committed to "justice".

I became a conservative five years ago on a Tuesday morning. I now look back and say "Dear Lord, was I ever stupid."

[eleni121]

The kids might get over it. I did.

But the elderly--the limo liberals, the self annointed mandarins, etc...what to be done about them? A major intrusive enema is all I can think of.

[KoRn]

I'm a rare case. In high school I was conservative and loved Ronald Reagan. As I got older I became increasingly conservative in my view of the government's role in society and have found myself being more Libertarian.

[Seamoth]

Generation Y won't be nearly as conservative as Generation X.

Teenagers are pits of self-pity angst. On the 'Net, there'll be one side telling them to suck it up and that they're lazy whiners with too much free time and too little gratitude. The other side will tell them, America sucks, the world at large offers much better lives, and their own depression is a chemical imbalance to be treated by doctors and psychologists rather than a result of anything they have control over. Which side is a more attractive option for teenagers? And isn't Generation Y the first generation to grow up on the 'Net? QED.

[Army Air Corps]

I had a brief phase of stupidity in my sophomore year (how appropriate) when I leaned toward socialism; I had, at that time, recently read Marx and Engels. I ran like hell, intellctually, from that crap when I really thought about it and its implications.

Like Reagan said, the difference between a Communist and an anti-c\Communist is that a Communist has read Marx and Lenin while an anti-Communist understands Marx and Lenin.