Seems like many of the ideas favored here center on attracting youthful voters. But as someone who works in the tech sector, the efforts here remind me of a goofy insurance company that suddenly discovered the Internet in 1999, long after its competition, and was in a mad race to catch up. ... more
Seems like many of the ideas favored here center on attracting youthful voters. But as someone who works in the tech sector, the efforts here remind me of a goofy insurance company that suddenly discovered the Internet in 1999, long after its competition, and was in a mad race to catch up. In the process, it only made itself look even more behind the times.
I'm under 40, and joined this party because of an exceptional President who was over 70. The current youth movement here seems heavily focused on Facebook and social media in order to catch up to Dems. But I don't care if the GOP mails me updates printed on a Selectric Typewriter if it pushes forward-looking ideas like entitlement reform and right to work.
Most 20-40 year olds don't think we'll get Social Security, and very few of us belong to a union. But because the Dems get so much cash from AARP and the AFL-CIO, they're forced to buy into their outdated agendas. Moreover, many young environmentalists can't stand the unions because their interests often collide.
Instead of trying too hard to be cool by doing more on Facebook, or promoting Jindal because he's 37, the party needs to do what Reagan did - promote forward-looking ideas, because it's on the right side of many of these issues. So instead of Facebook, we should be hearing more about Freedom - at work, from bureaucrats, and in educational choice. This will do far more to advance the party in the 21st century than coming up with clever status updates for your Facebook page.
tamcamry
I understand and respect what you mean about a great leader and exceptional president, but I think you're dead wrong about Facebook. Obama built an army online that gave him an edge in everything from mailers to fundraising. Bottom line is that if you send out a request to 3 million people for funds, and do all the phone bank stuff McCain did your going to raise more money.
limitgovt
would also add that one of the great Conservative leaders of the 20th century was a British Prime Minister who was nearly 80
you don't need a couple of Twitter feeds or Digg tags to re-affirm your principles, just a pair of something else