Sematary
07-28-2007, 08:36 AM
It has become obvious, over the last few years, that the Republican party has grown stale. It is out of ideas. There is hardly any new blood coming into the party because the 20 something crowd, in large part, doesn't want anything to do with the war and the Republican party has become a one issue party - the war. It doesn't appear to stand for anything else any more.
Gone are the days when the Republican party stood for personal responsibility, small government, fiscal conservativeness. That has all disappeared as the old guard of the Republican party has metastacized into a big government behemoth which has only one goal - to seek and hold onto power at any cost, including the lives of Americans.
In steps Ron Paul - an intelligent, consistent, grandfather with "new" ideas - ideas of upholding the constitution and limited government and personal responsibility and weening America off the cradle to grave welfare state. Who does he attract? It's not the stodgy older generation of Republicans which have bought into the concept of fear to win elections. It is the younger generation - the 18 to 34 year olds who swell the ranks of Ron Paul supporters. They ARE the new generation and the GOP is missing a golden opportunity to bring them into the GOP camp by not backing the one candidate that this demographic feel comfortable with in the Republican party. Those who know of Ron Paul are active and joining the Republican ranks but will quickly jump ship if he is not nominated and join the ranks of independent, or worse yet - Democrats.
This is the opportunity the GOP has been waiting for - and they are blowing it. When candidates refuse to debate in the CNN/Youtube debates, they are disenfranchising an entire generation of people who are wired into the world wide web and look more to the internet for their news and views than they do to the MSM which has repeatedly lied to them and marginalized the issues and candidates important to them.
Ron Paul may not be the man that the GOP wants but it is very clear that a large number of younger voters want him and the GOP should consider that before they simply discard him as a nominal candidate with no chance to win.
He may be the only chance the GOP has of grabbing the ever growing ranks of the young who voted heavier in the last elections because of the war and will vote heavy in this one as well.
Gone are the days when the Republican party stood for personal responsibility, small government, fiscal conservativeness. That has all disappeared as the old guard of the Republican party has metastacized into a big government behemoth which has only one goal - to seek and hold onto power at any cost, including the lives of Americans.
In steps Ron Paul - an intelligent, consistent, grandfather with "new" ideas - ideas of upholding the constitution and limited government and personal responsibility and weening America off the cradle to grave welfare state. Who does he attract? It's not the stodgy older generation of Republicans which have bought into the concept of fear to win elections. It is the younger generation - the 18 to 34 year olds who swell the ranks of Ron Paul supporters. They ARE the new generation and the GOP is missing a golden opportunity to bring them into the GOP camp by not backing the one candidate that this demographic feel comfortable with in the Republican party. Those who know of Ron Paul are active and joining the Republican ranks but will quickly jump ship if he is not nominated and join the ranks of independent, or worse yet - Democrats.
This is the opportunity the GOP has been waiting for - and they are blowing it. When candidates refuse to debate in the CNN/Youtube debates, they are disenfranchising an entire generation of people who are wired into the world wide web and look more to the internet for their news and views than they do to the MSM which has repeatedly lied to them and marginalized the issues and candidates important to them.
Ron Paul may not be the man that the GOP wants but it is very clear that a large number of younger voters want him and the GOP should consider that before they simply discard him as a nominal candidate with no chance to win.
He may be the only chance the GOP has of grabbing the ever growing ranks of the young who voted heavier in the last elections because of the war and will vote heavy in this one as well.