Report details how GOP lost young voters

[Kevin_Kennedy]

As stated elswehere on this thread, Libertarians offer absolutely no solutions. They only point at what they see as problems. Ron Paul, himself only authored one bill in his entire political career that was passed and became law, and that was a bill exempting some land owned by his constituants from being classified as protected wetlands. Don't make enough money to support your family? Libertarians want to do away with the minimum wage. Don't want to pay for medical care for others? Do away with gvernment mandated health insurance and let God sort it out as to who will live and who will die. Don't want government safty nets? Return to the days of Herbert Hoover, and revert to the Darwin principle. Those that can work, eat. Those that can't starve. In fact, if a law exists, simply repeal it, and all problems resolve themselves. Dissolve federal agencies and let big business return to the days when less than 1% owned 70% of the nations assets. Farewell, Environmental protection, anti-trust, FDA, FAA, Department of this and department of that. Let the buyer beware, and big business and those with money rule.Your water and land will be poisened, your labor will be exploited, government will get out of the business of enforcing safty requirment on everything from your seat belts to lead based paint on your children's toys.

A utopian age, fit for the robber barons of 1900. Rockefellor would be in hog's heaven!

We know these myths by heart. Government acts on behalf of the public good. It keeps us safe. It protects us against monopolies. It provides indispensable services we could not provide for ourselves. Without it, America would be populated by illiterates, half of us would be dead from quack medicine or exploding consumer products, and the other half would lead a feudal existence under the iron fist of private firms that worked them to the bone for a dollar a week.

Without President X, Wherever Would We Be? | Tom Woods

 

[Oddball]

As stated elswehere on this thread, Libertarians offer absolutely no solutions. They only point at what they see as problems. Ron Paul, himself only authored one bill in his entire political career that was passed and became law, and that was a bill exempting some land owned by his constituants from being classified as protected wetlands. Don't make enough money to support your family? Libertarians want to do away with the minimum wage. Don't want to pay for medical care for others? Do away with gvernment mandated health insurance and let God sort it out as to who will live and who will die. Don't want government safty nets? Return to the days of Herbert Hoover, and revert to the Darwin principle. Those that can work, eat. Those that can't starve. In fact, if a law exists, simply repeal it, and all problems resolve themselves. Dissolve federal agencies and let big business return to the days when less than 1% owned 70% of the nations assets. Farewell, Environmental protection, anti-trust, FDA, FAA, Department of this and department of that. Let the buyer beware, and big business and those with money rule.Your water and land will be poisened, your labor will be exploited, government will get out of the business of enforcing safty requirment on everything from your seat belts to lead based paint on your children's toys.

A utopian age, fit for the robber barons of 1900. Rockefellor would be in hog's heaven!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6TDqvD34hEA]Gloom Despair - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Avatar4321]

Couldnt possibly be the poor education system set up by Democrats would it?

 

[JustSomeGuy]

Young people have freedom and liberty, they want jobs

They crave more Freedom & Liberty. They want the Government to leave them alone. Less Government is the logical way forward. The GOP needs to really embrace this. They need fresh new leaders who truly respect the Constitution.

Once they dump the old Neocons, youth will begin to return to the Party. The Socialists/Progressives and Neocons only have a Nanny/Police State to offer them. And i think many young people are beginning to realize that. It's time for big change in the Republican Party.

They have more freedom and liberty than any generation in history. They need jobs

They are bright enough to realize that those like you spouting your rants on the Internet are a bunch of nutjobs

Yeah, I don't think that's true. My generation is consistently the least knowledgeable across all areas.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

As stated elswehere on this thread, Libertarians offer absolutely no solutions. They only point at what they see as problems. Ron Paul, himself only authored one bill in his entire political career that was passed and became law, and that was a bill exempting some land owned by his constituants from being classified as protected wetlands. Don't make enough money to support your family? Libertarians want to do away with the minimum wage. Don't want to pay for medical care for others? Do away with gvernment mandated health insurance and let God sort it out as to who will live and who will die. Don't want government safty nets? Return to the days of Herbert Hoover, and revert to the Darwin principle. Those that can work, eat. Those that can't starve. In fact, if a law exists, simply repeal it, and all problems resolve themselves. Dissolve federal agencies and let big business return to the days when less than 1% owned 70% of the nations assets. Farewell, Environmental protection, anti-trust, FDA, FAA, Department of this and department of that. Let the buyer beware, and big business and those with money rule.Your water and land will be poisened, your labor will be exploited, government will get out of the business of enforcing safty requirment on everything from your seat belts to lead based paint on your children's toys.

A utopian age, fit for the robber barons of 1900. Rockefellor would be in hog's heaven!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6TDqvD34hEA]Gloom Despair - YouTube[/ame]

You obviously just want to watch people starve in the streets through the lens of your monocle.

 

[Oddball]

 

[Avatar4321]

Young people have freedom and liberty, they want jobs

They crave more Freedom & Liberty. They want the Government to leave them alone. Less Government is the logical way forward. The GOP needs to really embrace this. They need fresh new leaders who truly respect the Constitution.

Once they dump the old Neocons, youth will begin to return to the Party. The Socialists/Progressives and Neocons only have a Nanny/Police State to offer them. And i think many young people are beginning to realize that. It's time for big change in the Republican Party.

They have more freedom and liberty than any generation in history. They need jobs

They are bright enough to realize that those like you spouting your rants on the Internet are a bunch of nutjobs

Funny, considering the gross darkness and chains covering this people.

 

[auditor0007]

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The first step in fixing a problem is admitting that you have one.

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And most of the Republicans that are left will admit that they have not been conservative enough, that they haven't excluded enough people yet. They think that by showing their hatred toward everyone that disagrees with them, that is the way to draw in more supporters to their cause. Of course, there are some intelligent Republicans out there who have seen the writing on the wall and understand how that attitude has destroyed the Republican Party, but most aren't listening to these smart Republicans. That is why come 2016, Chris Christie won't be a serious threat for the nomination. Republicans will nominate some right wing ultra-conservative who will see Hillary win in a landslide.

 

[Avatar4321]

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The first step in fixing a problem is admitting that you have one.

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And most of the Republicans that are left will admit that they have not been conservative enough, that they haven't excluded enough people yet. They think that by showing their hatred toward everyone that disagrees with them, that is the way to draw in more supporters to their cause. Of course, there are some intelligent Republicans out there who have seen the writing on the wall and understand how that attitude has destroyed the Republican Party, but most aren't listening to these smart Republicans. That is why come 2016, Chris Christie won't be a serious threat for the nomination. Republicans will nominate some right wing ultra-conservative who will see Hillary win in a landslide.

Conservatism doesnt exclude people. It invites people of all demographics to join in the cause of liberty.

Progressives are the ones who break people into groups and try to divide them. We conservatives invite people to embrace the cause of liberty as individuals not groups.

Hillary Clinton will never be President.

 

[Vandalshandle]

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The first step in fixing a problem is admitting that you have one.

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And most of the Republicans that are left will admit that they have not been conservative enough, that they haven't excluded enough people yet. They think that by showing their hatred toward everyone that disagrees with them, that is the way to draw in more supporters to their cause. Of course, there are some intelligent Republicans out there who have seen the writing on the wall and understand how that attitude has destroyed the Republican Party, but most aren't listening to these smart Republicans. That is why come 2016, Chris Christie won't be a serious threat for the nomination. Republicans will nominate some right wing ultra-conservative who will see Hillary win in a landslide.

Right on, 00007. The Republicans have run out of people to marginalize, so they are marginalizing the very people that they need to get elected. The slicing and dicing goes on and on. Now, they can not even agree among themselves as to whether the moderates or conservatives should carry their banner. The result is a moderate presidential candidate with a conservative VP candidate. If that doesn't work, they will try to reverse the two positions. The Tea Party is now holding their own caucuses in congress. they don't even include moderate republicans within thier ranks. Is CPAC going to carry the banner (without gay republicans, thank you very much), or are the moderates going to hang on to power. We can only watch in amazement and wonder as they desperately search for someone as a unifying catalyst. You know when they are in trouble when they seriously begin to consider Bobby Jindal as their candidate.

 

[Oddball]

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The first step in fixing a problem is admitting that you have one.

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And most of the Republicans that are left will admit that they have not been conservative enough, that they haven't excluded enough people yet. They think that by showing their hatred toward everyone that disagrees with them, that is the way to draw in more supporters to their cause. Of course, there are some intelligent Republicans out there who have seen the writing on the wall and understand how that attitude has destroyed the Republican Party, but most aren't listening to these smart Republicans. That is why come 2016, Chris Christie won't be a serious threat for the nomination. Republicans will nominate some right wing ultra-conservative who will see Hillary win in a landslide.

Right on, 00007. The Republicans have run out of people to marginalize, so they are marginalizing the very people that they need to get elected. The slicing and dicing goes on and on. Now, they can not even agree among themselves as to whether the moderates or conservatives should carry their banner. The result is a moderate presidential candidate with a conservative VP candidate. If that doesn't work, they will try to reverse the two positions. The Tea Party is now holding their own caucuses in congress. they don't even include moderate republicans within thier ranks. Is CPAC going to carry the banner (without gay republicans, thank you very much), or are the moderates going to hang on to power. We can only watch in amazement and wonder as they desperately search for someone as a unifying catalyst. You know when they are in trouble when they seriously begin to consider Bobby Jindal as their candidate.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

 

[Oddball]

It's astonishing how lolberals are absolutely petrified with fear of freedom.

 

[YoungRepublican]

I can tell you first hand how we lost the younger voters. Crazy radical conservatives who just said the dumbest things on social issues. Also, our inability to empathize. We have a big problem with the youth vote and the funny thing is, it is so easily fixed. If I could just have one hour with Preibus..

 

[Avatar4321]

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The first step in fixing a problem is admitting that you have one.

.

And most of the Republicans that are left will admit that they have not been conservative enough, that they haven't excluded enough people yet. They think that by showing their hatred toward everyone that disagrees with them, that is the way to draw in more supporters to their cause. Of course, there are some intelligent Republicans out there who have seen the writing on the wall and understand how that attitude has destroyed the Republican Party, but most aren't listening to these smart Republicans. That is why come 2016, Chris Christie won't be a serious threat for the nomination. Republicans will nominate some right wing ultra-conservative who will see Hillary win in a landslide.

Right on, 00007. The Republicans have run out of people to marginalize, so they are marginalizing the very people that they need to get elected. The slicing and dicing goes on and on. Now, they can not even agree among themselves as to whether the moderates or conservatives should carry their banner. The result is a moderate presidential candidate with a conservative VP candidate. If that doesn't work, they will try to reverse the two positions. The Tea Party is now holding their own caucuses in congress. they don't even include moderate republicans within thier ranks. Is CPAC going to carry the banner (without gay republicans, thank you very much), or are the moderates going to hang on to power. We can only watch in amazement and wonder as they desperately search for someone as a unifying catalyst. You know when they are in trouble when they seriously begin to consider Bobby Jindal as their candidate.

Just because you guys lie and say we are against people, doesn't mean we are actually against them. You realize that, don't you?

 

[TemplarKormac]

And most of the Republicans that are left will admit that they have not been conservative enough, that they haven't excluded enough people yet. They think that by showing their hatred toward everyone that disagrees with them, that is the way to draw in more supporters to their cause. Of course, there are some intelligent Republicans out there who have seen the writing on the wall and understand how that attitude has destroyed the Republican Party, but most aren't listening to these smart Republicans. That is why come 2016, Chris Christie won't be a serious threat for the nomination. Republicans will nominate some right wing ultra-conservative who will see Hillary win in a landslide.

Right on, 00007. The Republicans have run out of people to marginalize, so they are marginalizing the very people that they need to get elected. The slicing and dicing goes on and on. Now, they can not even agree among themselves as to whether the moderates or conservatives should carry their banner. The result is a moderate presidential candidate with a conservative VP candidate. If that doesn't work, they will try to reverse the two positions. The Tea Party is now holding their own caucuses in congress. they don't even include moderate republicans within thier ranks. Is CPAC going to carry the banner (without gay republicans, thank you very much), or are the moderates going to hang on to power. We can only watch in amazement and wonder as they desperately search for someone as a unifying catalyst. You know when they are in trouble when they seriously begin to consider Bobby Jindal as their candidate.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Frances Scott Piven and Saul Alinsky would be proud to say the least.

 

[YoungRepublican]

Even young Republicans are aware that you can't treat Americans the way the current crop of misfits treats those they consider to be undesirable

There may be hope for the once Grand Old Party but they must break their ties with the radical fringe and stop being the Stupid Party

You couldn't be more correct. We are done with the radical fringe and my friends and I have stayed up many nights with a few beers just talking about ways to get these nuts out of the party. We need support from inside the party though. I and many others believe that these people are a greater threat than any liberal out there.

 

[Oddball]

Even young Republicans are aware that you can't treat Americans the way the current crop of misfits treats those they consider to be undesirable

There may be hope for the once Grand Old Party but they must break their ties with the radical fringe and stop being the Stupid Party

You couldn't be more correct. We are done with the radical fringe and my friends and I have stayed up many nights with a few beers just talking about ways to get these nuts out of the party. We need support from inside the party though. I and many others believe that these people are a greater threat than any liberal out there.

The nuts are the old geezer neocons....They're the ones running the party.

If you cannot afford a clue, I'll rent one to you for a few days.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Fortunately for me, the Republican failure to attract young voters is not my problem. Also, fortunately for me, the republicans don't seem to think that it is their problem, either. I call that a win/win situation!

 

[YoungRepublican]

Even young Republicans are aware that you can't treat Americans the way the current crop of misfits treats those they consider to be undesirable

There may be hope for the once Grand Old Party but they must break their ties with the radical fringe and stop being the Stupid Party

You couldn't be more correct. We are done with the radical fringe and my friends and I have stayed up many nights with a few beers just talking about ways to get these nuts out of the party. We need support from inside the party though. I and many others believe that these people are a greater threat than any liberal out there.

The nuts are the old geezer neocons....They're the ones running the party.

If you cannot afford a clue, I'll rent one to you for a few days.

Running the party today.. Us millennial are a different animal, a different kind of Republican, one that should make liberals shake in their crocks. We are socially logical (gay marriage, abortion, etc.) with a strong fiscal stance. We don't want to continue the vicious cycle we are currently in and we are so idealistic we may be able to restore some faith into this party. I buy you a clue sir, because we just don't believe in renting anymore.

 

[Cecilie1200]

If the report doesn't conclude that the reason for young voters leaving the GOP is because of indoctrination the report will be a democrat fake.

Well, since it was compiled by the Young Republicans, I doubt they're going to find that young voters - and young people in general - are gullible, easily-led, and utterly lacking in practical life experience.