Posted on 11/28/2012 11:20:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The young skulls full of mush need to learn that "elections do have consequences". You make a mess, YOU deal with it.
Pretty much. The demographic shift has been nothing but titanic. Time for a new party.
Why is youth wasted on the young?
Why is wisdom wasted on the old?
At some point, all those youthful voters will become older, wiser, and conservative in droves.............
Having the entire incoming House leadership consisting of white males and nothing but is not exactly the slickest step.
The GOP is done. What does it even stand for any more?
We have to seize control of education or we have no chance.
Its like leaving the German factories intact and hoping to defeat Hitler.
I could not disagree more. Appealing to voters by skin color and sex is a losing process. What we need is real conservatives, who understand and can clearly articluate basic Constitutional principles, and have COURAGE, and quick wits, and are not only willing but straining at the leash to take on the Dems/leftists and the MSM. (But I repeat myself).
That will appeal to many voters. Shoving a bunch of brown faces and females up there will never win elections. The party of feminazis and hate whitey are the Dems, and if you think Rs can beat them at the feminist/hate whitey game, you're nuts.
If women and/or candidates of other races are conservative, GREAT. Look what happened to Allen West - the "GOP" mucked up the district lines because the GOP hates conservatives, and then election fraud by Dems on top of it. As long as Rs are *ickless eunuch RINOS, they will continue to lose, and aping Dems will make them lose even more.
The more time you spend educating kids instead of indoctrinating them, the better.
The current intelligence gap is intentional and consistent with turning this country’s crop of brain power into so much mush.
I am from a different era, it seems.. I had a thirst for knowledge and read a lot of books at an early age. Has the written word in printed form and bound copy got legs? Film at 11..
I see all the little iPads and smartphones enabling this generation’s mobile ‘geniuses’ being used to pave the way to knowledge and to teach about history in a way never before imagined could be possible... no intent to Kindle a Fire .. jmho
Alice in VunderLand got nothing over this joint society.
“Winston Churchill has been quoted as saying, “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
Churchill’s shrewd observation made sense-—decades ago. It needs to be updated to reflect the reality that young adults are being used as a cash cow by old folks. This piece focuses on Obamacare: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisconover/2012/11/27/young-people-under-obamacare-cash-cow-for-older-workers/
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg since young folks also are being tapped to bankroll Medicare even though they have little assurance that Medicare will be around by the time they need to make use of it. Their lifetime earnings are going to take a huge hit as a consequence of their having spent their first 8 working years in an Obama economy that greatly under-employs their talent.
In short, the ruling class is seeing that youth get shafted six ways from Sunday which means that anyone under 30 who is not conservative has no brains.
Honestly I think the change towards conservatism with age is most likely to be in terms of fiscal policy, and a greater emphasis on being “tough on crime” (the latter was not remotely an issue in the 2012 campaign, but it was a big deal in the 1980s).
However, I think a 24 year old who likes gays and gay rights, and is pro-choice, is going to have similar views on both issues when they are 44.
Social liberalism spells doom for America, and means that liberalism will prevail.
We have come a long way from the time when Nixon could win the under vote.
I doubt even a reincarnated Gipper could win the next election.
Exactly. Once these kids grow up and get knocked around a little bit, fiscal responsibility will make sense. National security will make sense. Internal security (crime) will make sense. They are never going to care if Ellen and Portia are married. No one thought divorce was ever going to be as universally accepted as it is today, and the same will happen with attitudes towards gay marriage.
It is probably impossible to measure the incredible damage that the republican party allowed Romney to do to it, and how that will affect us in 2016.
We can rest assured that Reagan would have easily won in 2012, against Jimmy Carter’s second term, as any decent republican would have.
Republicans should be able to win in 2016 as well.
But, keep in mind, as this last election showed,
the left has done their best to insulate people from the consequences of leftist ideology.
Infinite unemployment, $60k+ in “aid” taxfree per year, etc.
These programs prevent a backlash against the failures of socialism, and they can keep paying for them until the whole thing comes crashing down.
I’ve been saying this since the election - the only way “out” is “through”.
And there wasn’t one true conservative GOP woman in the House qualified to be a committee chair? Optics matter today. Boehner just helped the Dems paint the GOP as the party of old white males, and I’m an old white male.
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