It’s time to inject Botox into the sagging face of the GOP
Americans are youth orientate. We spend billions on hair dye, plastic surgery, hair implants... and that’s just the men.
So, it should come as no surprise that any organization that has the word OLD in its name is going to have a serious problem selling itself. Look what happened to the popularity of the merry OLD oldsmobile.
Never trust anyone over the age of 30 wasn’t so much as a slogan as it was a way of life in the mid-60's. The Pepsi Generation doesn’t drink Medamucil! Youth is rebellious, opinionated, argumentative, and very rarely do they follow the advice of their elders. Especially in politics.
The Grand Old party needs a face lift to bring it out of the dark ages of the past. In this century of blackberry and blue tooth, twitter and texting, the Republicans appear to be stuck in the past. They continue to adhere to old ideas and flawed logic, and continue on the same Republican road which brought us Nixon’s Watergate, Reagan’s Iran-Contra scandal, and George W. Bush’s... everything.
We can forgive the personal infidelities of our young presidents Kennedy and Clinton, but not the dishonesty we’ve only known with our Republican representatives; Nixon’s aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and more recently Tom Delay, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Ted Stevens, Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney.
Youthful inexperience is never a deterrent when put up against youthful enthusiasm and energy. Just ask any experienced unemployed 55 year old applying for a job against twenty-somethings just out of college. The Republican Party will never be able to sell any new ideas with the likes of 66 -year- old Newt Gingrich, or 62- year- old slick-Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul’s campaign of revolution might have made a significant difference in the outcome of the Republican primary had he been a young man of 47. What the young voters of America wanted, rallied for, and elected was a YOUNG President they could trust, not simply follow. A leader who would communicate with them, and not dictate to them. A brother, not a father.
Had the Republican establishment listened to, instead of dismissed, Ron Paul’s message of individual rights, personal liberty, limited government and strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution , which excited so many, then found a young person to carry that message, that candidate would have led the Republican Party all the way to the White House.
But the Grand Old Party wasn’t listening then, and it’s still not listening now. Seems you really can’t teach an old dog new tricks, emphasis on the old, when the dog continues to play the same old tricks in spite of the lessons of past failures.
As long as the Republicans are more concerned with appeasing their ever- shrinking Christian and Conservative base with a platform of inequality under the law, total disregard of freedom, invading foreign countries, and continue to follow old men with old ideas, they will go the way of the dinosaurs.
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