The Republican Party loves war. I trust you are aware if their War on Blacks, War on Latinos, War on Asians, War on Gays, War on Women, War on Seniors, War on Students, War on Labor, War on Voting Rights, War on Human Rights, War on the Constitution, and War on YOU, to mention just a few. Now the have a new one to introduce. Meet the Republican War on Baby Boomers.
“The average Republican primary voter is deceased,” Frank Luntz, Fox News commentator and GOP uber-pollster, said in February.
His advice for wooing younger voters? “Don’t give them terminology they don’t understand.” It’s about “communicating a simple phrase, three words: ‘I get it.’ ”
Luntz was sharing his prescription for dumbing down political rhetoric with outlier tea party candidate Allen West on a new website called Next Generation TV, but as The New York Times reported June 29, GOP stalwarts are taking his advice, courting millennials, the 80 million potential voters born from about 1980 to 2000, mostly by cracking wise about Democrats of a certain age. Electing Hillary Clinton would be like going back in time, Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s campaign strategist, told reporters: “She’s been around since the ’70s.” Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell compared the 2016 Democratic field to “a rerun of ‘The Golden Girls.’ ”
The nasty edge of Republican rhetoric isn’t new, but Luntz, a master of the zeitgeist, is exploiting fears that run deeper than election strategy. Ironically, thrice-married serial cheater Newt Gingrich introduced the backlash against baby boomers, rallying conservatives against counterculture permissiveness in the 1990s. But boomer bashing has taken on a new character. With the future looking bleaker all the time, Americans are externalizing their fears. Trashing people over 40—or worse, 50—is not only socially acceptable, but a form of self-protection… [emphasis added]
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Seeing that most of their base falls into the baby boomer range, it strikes me as rather strange that Republicans would employ this tactic to attract millennials. But then the reason becomes obvious. They have absolutely nothing positive to offer.
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What?! All the GOP/TP candidates for the Presidential Election either were as old as the hills or looked as old as the hills – and had opinions and theories that were positively fossilised! At least Hillary has a good amount of experience behind her – and she might actually have a few principles (which we can be certain the GOP/TP haven't!).
The hypocricy boggles the mind!
I thought I was reading an excerpt from "The Onion". You have got to be kidding. They almost all fall into our age category or older. Just look at "Bought Bitch Mitch". I guess that means we shouldn't vote for them either. I DO agree with that premise.
They just like to declare War. On whom? It doesn't matter, as long as it's War.
They prefer to wage war without declaring it.
What John said. Hear, hear!
The Republican Party runs against most everything and everybody. In the long run, that's a losing strategy, or would be, if it were a strategy at all.
It appears to be all they have. After all, they can't just come out and say, "Vote to give all you have to the 1%."
Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell compared the 2016 Democratic field to “a rerun of ‘The Golden Girls.’ ”
Now that is rich coming from McTurtle who is 71 and older than Clinton. He hasn't heard I guess that the retro look is in again.
One thing is for sure, the Republicanus/Teabaggers are warmongers. They don't always use guns but they are definitely out for the kill! With this strategy, they may just succeed . . . killing themselves!
That would make the 2016 Republican/Bagger line-up a rerun of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight."
My thought was a rerun of "Grumpy Old Men."
That works too 🙂
Night of the Living Dead?
If they truly want the millenials, they will have to learn how to text, use Instagram, and share on Facebook. I am not surprised they are attacking boomers this way, look how they are trying to destroy Social Security, simply to save their contributors from having to pay SS taxes.
Hell, I'm a rather computer savvy old fart, and even I've never used Instagram.
I have a 19 year old nephew or I would never have heard of it. LOL
That explains it! 😉