Posted on 02/28/2009 12:06:53 PM PST by AJKauf
Republicans could use some political openings and this week two popped up. Both offered the chance to win back lost constituencies and cause the Democrats some grief. And both stemmed from policy overreaching or miscues by the Obama administration.
The first may be with regard to young voters. Michael Barone at CPAC got me thinking about Republicans and young people. He contends that although the youth vote overwhelmingly went in the Democrats’ column, the policies which the Democrats are pursuing, including nationalized health care and abolition of secret ballots in union elections, aren’t very youth-oriented and potentially could turn off younger voters. But it seems that the greatest generational issue has been handed to the Republican Party on a silver platter: the Obama administration is mortgaging their future. They will live less well than their parents as a result.
The deficit is not an abstract issue, at least it shouldn’t be. It is the IOU the Baby Boomers are handing off to the future generations...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
One of the things the commies learned in the Eastbloc was that their policies alienated all young people all the time.
Make the most of it.
Two other huge openings:
NY-20 on March 31st
VA state elections in November
Bonus points:
Get Roland out of the senate and win a special election
They are putting in place programs and policies that will never be overturned, no matter how damaging to all they are. Roosevelt's Social Security and Johnson's Medicare are just a few examples of programs that get embedded quickly and, save for armed revolution, will never be retracted.
While this is true, many of them cannot analyse and come to real conclusions. They are blinded by the rhetoric of the left and slavishly follow the newsies because the youth is so celebrity oriented. Grandma and Rush could not possibly know better than Wolf, Anderson, and the cats on the View.
I wish the GOP could/would pique their interest enough to teach them, but I have no such confidence in the GOP.
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Obama has painted himself into a pretty tight corner. He has not only pushed the neo socialist agenda, he has claimed it will ALSO grow and save the economy. Even if people are stupid enough to buy the socialism angle, they also expect an economic recovery, and you can’t have both. So by the time 2010 or 2012 rolls around Obama is going to have to explain it. Blaming Bush won’t go that far.
College are kids and younger are being lashed to millstones of debt that will forever more hang around their necks and restrict their freedoms and enslave them to the government.
This time the Porkulus bill really is, "for the children."
Didn’t Carter win overwhemingly with young voters and 4 years later was abandoned by them? I am hoping history repeats itself as in 1980 and 1994 soon!
BTW, Mark Levin, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, believes that the suburban Yuppies will be the demographic spearheading the coming electoral backlash against the 'Rats. So Levin's thinking is not all that far from Rubin's.
zero will devilope (no typo) a youth corps which, I believe will pay relatively well enough to keep disgruntlement to a mimimum, thus suspicion will be of no concern.
I'm an old fart, paranoid to the max and ready for a fight.
zero has time, power and a blackberry corps (remember .. there are millions data based .. perhaps now well researched and some selected, perhaps starting training .. ? .. ).
zero has not gotten here alone, is surrounded with an impenetrable wall and angers the shit out of us that bristle when he holds his head so arrogantly.
I'll (we'll) be dead soon enough, and the eight years of this administration will bring an oblique Hal Lindsey title to fruition .. "The Late, Great Nation America"
Picture Charlton Heston on his knees in the sand angrily looking at what's left of Liberty.
Look who's in charge.
No ... no ... I don't think I WILL take my meds today, thank you.
Obama just proposed free college.
Simply point out to them how Democrats have mortgaged their future. They can pay into SS and get nothing out of it and what's worse, they're not paying enough into it. It will require more.
Medicare is bankrupting them. Now add all this latest spending and if I were a young person, I would be looking for a way out of this mess.
We need to have entire programs just to develop the young people. It ought to be like taking candy from a baby.
Did he also propose free professors?
Didn’t Carter win overwhemingly with young voters and 4 years later was abandoned by them? I am hoping history repeats itself as in 1980 and 1994 soon!
Now's the time to dust off the old Tax n' Spend Liberal moniker that was used to such devastating effect for decades, back when the GOP had 'nads.
In fact now they could jazz it up a bit by credibly swapping 'liberal' with 'Marxist'.
But kids have been increasingly ‘lashed to the millstone of debt’ for the last 30 years. It got far worse in the last 10 years, especially, since the fed kept interest rates so low.
You’re basically screwed if you’re young no matter who is president. Almost all entry-level jobs, even with a degree, have crap for pay and don’t have benefits like insurance. And if you don’t go to school, your odds are even worse. I’m 23 and doing all right, but I have a lot of friends whose lives suck right now.
I no longer believe the media cares about its own credibility as much as they want to see Marxism become preeminent.
We are screwed. Kind of hard not to hate so many people these days.
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