Posted on 03/07/2014 11:46:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
Look for a new generation of young conservatives to become a bumper crop.
I ask the question in all seriousness, because the official GOP response to all this has been “well, they don’t have another Barack Obama up their sleeve.”
Social conservatism is not popular with younger voters. Or foreign interventionism. Best chance to appeal to them is with fiscal issues, but is that enough?
FWIW: Romney won the youth vote amongst all whites. So the idea that the youth vote is liberal is BS. I addition, close to 50% of these self-identified liberal youths will become conservative once they hit 30-40, with mortgages, careers, families, taxes, etc. It’s easy to be a liberal dummy when your life revolves around the next keg party.
Actually, I believe Republican gross ineptness put Obama into office. I suppose Bush acting domestically like a Democrat didn’t help either.
“That girl in New Jersey who is suing her parents is probably typical.”
Yep. And those parents unwittingly created that brat, beyond bringing her to life. Dad admits they are ‘liberal parents’ (not necessarily in the political sense) who unfortunately set up her sense of entitlement.
Bill Clinton campaign theme was “bridge to the 21st century”
is Hillary’s going to be “U-Turn back to the 20th century”?
ROFL
Young people will be TURNED off by a Hillary nomination, UNLESS it’s a BUSH she is running against. In which case, her greatest weakness will be nullified.
They’ve been saying this for three generations now because they forget that people eventually grow up and start voting conservative.
“If you’re not a liberal at 20 you have no heart. But if you’re not a conservative at 30 you have no brain.” Winston Churchill
For these folks, the #1 issue in the country today is Gay Marriage. Everything else is just noise.
Until they get married and have kids.
I voted democrat until I was 30 and Ronald Reagan came along.
Would that be young, unemployed liberals?
Like they say on campus, “I’m glad I are a college student.”
Expect to see more of this manufacturing of consent garbage leading up to the midterm elections. Its a 2 pronged attack: 1. To create conformity among the gullible youth to the narrative; 2. To demoralize the opposition.
This same thing happens every election like clock work. Its the Art of War applied in politics. Note all the sources are liberal or GOPe biased.
Well don’t bet against it or you are out 64 trillion.
Churchill stated quite well about the reasoning behind the “young” and why they are liberal.
The Pew study as I saw it covered in a different spurce cited three examples of Millenials embracing activist big government policies: gay marriage, pot legalization and I can’t remember the third.
Those first two aren’t liberal activist big government in nature (the third, tho I can’t recall it, was). The position that Millenials take on those two issues is just the opposite: that government should stay out of them.
That’s not activiet big government liberalism. It’s libertarianism.
I say that not as a defense of libertarianism, but of political mechanics and how this is MUCH more complex than the MSM is portraying in doing their victory lap.
Liberal’s own the future except for the next two elections.......oh Okay.
They can’t do it without conservative money. They are too lazy to work for their own. Most are waiting for their parents to die so they can get the inheritance, and that’s where the heftiest taxes should be levied in the future. Make them pay at least 75% of their parents’ stash for their Leftist wet dreams.
Not sure they’ve accounted for the home-schooled, highly intelligent, numerous, conservative, Rush-baby types. IMHO there is an underground group that doesn’t get counted in much.
a - very few of the 20-somethings have the skills as our public schools cater to the lowest common denominator and no longer insist on excellence and achievement; b - the Obama economy has withdrawn jobs from the marketplace; c - many of them lack the social skills or drive to go out, take rejection, and finally get a job of some kind.
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