Tuesday, June 17th, 2008...11:06 am
#27: Don’t Vote Republican
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Sure, there are Young Republicans, just like there’s Jumbo Shrimp and Soft Rock. It’s an oxymoron: All Republicans are, in spirit if not in years, old. They’re conservatives, which by definition means they’re against change and for the status quo. They’re pro-money — and why not, since as old white men, they have plenty. And against abortion — again why not, since as old white men, they can’t get pregnant.
Even if, for some bizarre reason, your politics line up with the Republicans, I still implore you to resist voting with them. Think of how old their presidential candidate is compared with the Democrats’. Think, even more important, of your image.
17 Comments
June 20th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Your website was funny until this point. But now you have resorted to the talking points and ‘holier than thou’ attitude exhibited by the democratic party. Remember your party supports censorship with its adherence to political correctness by telling people how they should talk and think. Just how exactly is that being progressive?
May 8th, 2009 at 1:00 am
I like this one.
Remember when they were talking about their “permanent republican majority?”
So funny.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I needed a book for a trip, I was going to buy this one…not anymore!
July 8th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Aw, c’mon. I think you’d really get a lot out of it.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Amen!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Well for example of a young republican… ME, and just about every other kid I know is Rep. It’s cool to know your poltics (to a point of course) Atleast so you don’t look like an uneducated moron. And most kids that did side with democrats changed after they started to pay atention (which sorta happened this year with the election and stuff). So now me and most of my friends associate that being democrat as a kid = doesn’t have a clue about what they are talking about. We want a feature and see the Democrats taking it away, maybe they feal younger leeving so much debt, and frivolously spending (its like the freakin country is having a mid life crisis!) But us kids want to have a future we can build oursleves, not be shoved into a socialist government.
Until this, i thought most of your stuff was good and pretty true (although some of your *modern* words seemed like somthing adults may think we say, but are just as bad as saying neato or somthing) And no, I’m not old. I’m 14
August 10th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Lost me here, never will spend money on this democratic liberal!!!
August 10th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Image should never be a reason for political beliefs. Big government will be the end of everything wonderful about this country. Change is not always good. Maybe the wisdom of the founders should not be changed. I hope the young have the energy to change government back to the founding ideas. Printing more money to cover the budget, spending more than you can afford are ways to hyperinflation and debt. How can that be cool?
August 13th, 2009 at 7:02 am
If the only reason you’re voting for something is to look young – please stay home!
Yeah, most of my young friends vote democrat. They did it because Obama is half black.
They don’t know what the first amendment is and look blank if you mention Roe vs. Wade.
Younger isn’t always better.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Going with the group to look cool is not only foolish, but REALLY OLD! I don’t care who you voted for as long as you have a damn good reason for why you voted that way.
August 16th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Old – like listening to Bruce Springsteen or being nostalgic for the 60’s – is about political conformity. Youth has long been enchanted with “doing your own thing” as long as it’s exactly like what everyone else is doing (some things never change). I sense less of that today than in the past. There is no one politics of youth today – rather an uncomfortable balance between “mooching” and “carving a new trail” (again, some things never change).
Actually, I think party politics of this generation is going to be, at best, mercurial. In YOUR generation the Democrats have always been the “cool” kids, but do you really think your kids are just like you? I think you’re projecting here. They like Obama/Democrats now, but next time around? Don’t count on it. The cycle is much faster, what looked deft and new in 2008 could be deeply ancient by 2012, let alone 2016.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Angry political comments aimed at completely well-meaning people are OLD. Being so thinned skinned about a little humor you may disagree with is really OLD. Young people don’t get all bent out of shape if another person has a different idea of politics. And making stupid threats at people you don’t know is even older and nasty. Young people don’t base their entire self worth on party affiliation.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Guess we now know who can’t take a joke (and if that isn’t old, nothing is). Anyway, old is thinking the dems are destroying the country, when it was really the fault of the repubs before them…oh, and the dems before them…oh, and the repubs before them…oh, and the dems before them, etc. The two major parties have a lock on the system, and the oligarchs own both. The young will realize this after they inherit the whole fubar system (and after they see what happens to change they can believe in…).
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I wasn’t going to buy your book, but I’m going to Amazon RIGHT THIS MINUTE to purchase it after reading these comments! Hah! Up theirs!
December 26th, 2009 at 8:34 am
How very shallow and bigoted. Go ahead and jump off the cliff like lemmings and take em with ya!
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:05 am
Belonging to (or aligning yourself with) a political party is old.
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
I was enjoying this also until i read this, i am really tired of the progressive liberals, they are a very, very, very dangerous group. Look at who our President is surrounding himself in the White House.
i would prefer to keep federal government small and allow people to govern themselves, not a groupof elitists who think that we can not think for ourselves.
I would prefer to keep our nation’s sovereignty and our states sovereignty, allow them to each be individual and unique.
I would prefer to be able to be the best individuals that we can be rather than live under socialist government entitlements, and unions, or the slogan WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
The old Soviet Party’s logan, now SEIU leader Andy Stearn, who is a frequent visitor of the White House and has had great input on legislation going through our House and Senate.
There is moment in our country that has distorted the truth and history, Democrats were against civil rights, Republicans fought for them and push it through. Martin Luther King was a Republican. Democrats were against women voting. Democrats suppress individualism and promote fascism and socialism.
Study your history and learn from the facts not what people are telling you. Why are our young wearing T-shirts of Revoluntionary Mass Murderers such as Che’, Mao, Chavez, and their like?
Are they being prepared for a Revoluntionary Holocaust? Question everything but always seek the truth.
Read the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers, learn our history and and learn the true story of our founding fathers, we are a very special nation, very lucky nation to have had such a great engineers to keep us free from elitists and tyranny, but there is a undercurrent that has been working to take all of this away over the decades. Looks like it is working from reading this comment.
Keep in mind: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” – Edward R. Murrow
Stay informed and vigilante or you could loose your freedoms. Today we are going through very scary times.
JL
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