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"As less-educated seniors pass away and better-educated 20- and 30-somethings take their place in the electorate, this bloc will exert growing influence. And here's the distressing news for the GOP: According to exit-poll data, a majority of college-educated voters (53%) pulled the lever for Mr. Obama in 2008—the first time a Democratic candidate has won this key segment since the 1970s."
Here is the "tell", same as it's been from the so-called "fiscons" for a decade or longer.
Even more important is the party's message on divisive social issues. When some Republicans use homophobic language, express thinly disguised contempt toward immigrants, or ridicule heartfelt concerns for the environment, they affront the values of the educated class. And they lose votes they otherwise ought to win.
Way to denigrate cherished values and misrepresent reality.
The only Whole Foods Republicans are a percentage of the people who shop there for the pure health of it without an agenda.
I suspect this is the majority of their shoppers. Think about it, how many people really buy groceries based on global warming really?
Whole foods food is expensive.
Alot of these people are going to become naturally republican when they see their taxes go through the roof.
I think 1/3rd of these people though are already on board, they may be fooling themselves into thinking this is a new category of voters when all this is the same voters categorized differently.
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The future of the Republican Party is with the tea partyites, or rather the future of the tea partyites is with the Republican Party. I would love to see all political efforts of these disaffected folks focused on hijacking the Republican Party and turn it back into a party that Reagan could be proud of.
The author should have written "As less-indoctrinated seniors."
Now that's really funny!
With these guys in charge of the GOP and the RNC writing letters?
"Who's turn is it...?"
20 - 30 yr olds are far from better educated.
For many decades, especially since arond 1960, Public schools and universities are incubators for the Left wing.
Most do not have common knowledge of American and World history let alone common sense. I talk to this type everyday up to middle age and older with degrees.
A waste of their parents money.
>> embrace a progressive lifestyle but not progressive politics.
This is a great idea, but not a new idea, and not new to Conservatives.
Conservatism by nature, is nature friendly.
Good health and good food is apolitical.
“The same is true for Mrs. Palin’s inability to name a single newspaper she reads. If the GOP doesn't want to be branded the “Party of Stupid,” it could stand to nominate more people who can speak eloquently on complicated policy matters. “
Huh?
Hey, Mr MICHAEL J. PETRILLI, you condescending lame brain, Gov Plain had already written an article for the New York Times long before she was nominated by John McCain. Exactly how does one not know about newspapers when one writes articles for those sane newspapers? Everyone who writes for nespapers, raads those newspapers at least. Couric the COUGAR tart didn't do her homework.
This moron needs to read Sarah Palin’s book, and stop repeating Keith Olberman type talking points.
The author, Mr. Petrilli, is an elitist. I about went through the roof when I read, "And of course there's Sarah Palin, whose entire brand is anti-intellectual."
What a self annointed RINO. Sarah scares him also. Generally better stuff comes out of the Hoover Institution than this crap.
My own view is that every 8 to 12 years, the public will tend to elect a Dim based on their plattitudes and the public’s lack of remembering what they are like. After exposure to their policies, the public quickly reverts to their conservative nature. I think we are seeing that again this time.
Of course the consultants will want to come up with all sort of advice like go after people with progressive lifes styles but not progressive policy views so they can get paid. The last time I checked the GOP was not keeping anyone from joining their ranks even pro-card check New Yorkers. So maybe it is a matter of those who don’t care for progressive policies coming back to the GOP after seeing Obama’s leftism in action rather than the never closed to them GOP openning up?
According to exit-poll data, a majority of college-educated voters (53%) pulled the lever for Mr. Obama in 2008”
Only 53%, and that was the perfect storm for dims. An economic mess, unpopular war and a pathetic republican ticket along with a media fawning all over their new found messiah. I’d say things look pretty good.
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“So how to woo these voters to the Republican column? The first step is to stop denigrating intelligence and education”
That’s just laughable. No one is denigrating intelligence and education. They’re pointing out the air of moral and intellectual superiority which envelops these central planners and masters of the universe who are largely responsible for the mess we’re in.
This is the same nonsense we were hearing a year ago about the pubbies having to purge the conservatives if they were to survive but now updated with a slightly different twist. If the Republicans will nominate solid conservatives who can articulate those principles we’ll clean house in 2010. Jettisoning principled moral standards to appeal to some emerging demographic is not the recipe for success but will shatter the base and will only lead to more lefties and bad policy.
Huh? I’m college-educated, not particularly socially conservative (militantly conservative on economic and defense issues), live in the city, and wear fashionable high-heeled boots. I also love guns, endorse the Tea Parties, support Sarah Palin (who is a genuine intellectual without being a snob, unlike Obama, who’s a snob and a phony intellectual), and never shop at Whole Foods. What’s the point of reaching out to these “Whole Foods Republicans” if they’re so liberal they won’t even vote for McCain?
Oh, and supporting crap-and-trade is not a sign of “genuine luuuuvvvvvvvv” for the environment. Crap-and-trade will do NOTHING to protect the environment. It will ruin our economy, though. If the self-proclaimed “progressives” think crap-and-trade should be the litmus test for being invited to cocktail parties and praised in the New York Slimes...
Then again, make it the litmus test. It’ll show us who the sellouts and traitors are.
You can win a special interest group only if you can persuade it that the cost of pulling the whole house down is not worth the bennies your opponent promises to get it by doing so.
Maybe we need herbal tea parties too.
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This is just more RINOizing hand wringing.
Whole Freedom Republicans the GOP needs to enlist voters who embrace freedom but not socialist defined materialist equality.
There , fixed it.
Some people have started similar or derivative projects and they often overlap or duplicate but a broad consensus is that we are going after the educated middle. We are not after the brie and chardonnay crowd. We need something to run against and they are it. We want the kid whose dad was a truck driver and insisted that he go to college. We want Main Street.
The author touches some of the same conclusions that he have come to but still much of what he says is entirely new to me. The “Whole Foods” approach is an odd one. We looked at education levels region by region, state by state, county by county and we are going after the bright, young, ambitious people who have the intellectual curiosity to seek post secondary education. We don’t care if it is a year at the community college or four years at an Ivy. We are going toe-to-toe with the liberal establishment.
I don’t see Governor Palin as anti-intellectual at all. She has a way to go on the learning curve but it is not a serious obstacle. She reflects the country at large.
The liberal juggernaut is about to meet reality. We are going to be there to put the pieces back together again.
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