how about the fact that 18-29 year olds preferred Obama over McCain by 2 to 1?

also: 25 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds now identify with no religion

oh, and they also strongly support gay marriage.

Noneya on January 30, 2009 at 7:53 PM

The only problem with your analysis, is that these numbers have changed very little in the last 60 or 70 years.

I have a degree in political science, and I know a dying party when I see one. This is not the America of the 80’s, this is the new multi-cultural, more secular America, and the drubbing you guys have taken in the last 2 elections proves just that.

Noneya on January 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM

What a classic line. You fucking nitwit – name the last “dying party” that you “saw”.

Whether or not you have a degree in institutional leftism, aka poli sci, you clearly lack the common sense God gives a dog. Don’t mention the university, North Central might discredit them.

How are socialism and feminism “inextricably linked”?
chunderroad on February 1, 2009 at 12:58 AM

Good question. First, I’d recommend watching this 1-hour film on the topic. Here are few quotes before I explain the connection:

“We must now say proudly and without any exaggeration that apart from Soviet Russia, there is not a country in the world where women enjoy full equality and where women are not placed in the humiliating position felt particularly in day-to-day family life. This is one of our first and most important tasks…. Housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman…The building of socialism will begin only when we have achieved the complete equality of women and when we undertake the new work together with women who have been emancipated from that petty stultifying, unproductive work…. We are setting up model institutions, dining-rooms and nurseries, that will emancipate women from housework…. These institutions that liberate women from their position as household slaves are springing up where it is in any way possible.” ~ V.I. Lenin, The Task of the Working Women’s Movement in the Soviet Republic, 1919.

“The chief thing is to get women to take part in socially productive labor, to liberate them from ‘domestic slavery,’ to free them from their stupefying and humiliating subjugation to the eternal drudgery of the kitchen and the nursery. This struggle will be a long one, and it demands a radical reconstruction, both of social technique and of morale. But it will end in the complete triumph of Communism.” ~ V.I. Lenin, International Working Women’s Day Speech, 1920.

In order for socialism to work (i.e. state control, a wanting by the population for the state to care for them), the Judeo-Christian-model of the family must go. If families look to the father/husband as their protector, provider, and priest (as per Ephesians 5, among other texts), as opposed to the state, then socialism will never work. A Judeo-Christian culture is too hostile to such an idea of relying on the state vs. the family patriarch. So, under the guise of equality, feminism has sought to destroy the home by driving a wedge between the wife/mother and family. Men, according to the Bible, are to lead the home, to love their wives as Christ loves the Church, and be the priest, protector and provider of the home. Women, according to the Bible, are to be their husband’s helpmate, the keeper of the home, the mother of her children. Feminism seeks to get women out of the home in order to double the workforce of the nation. Feminism seeks to subvert the Biblical model for home and church leadership by encouraging mothers to abdicate their role as mothers to the state (i.e. daycare, state-run education). No longer are men the voices of their families at the city gates. The reason women couldn’t vote before was not because of a lack of value on their part: far from it. Men should value their wives’ input. It was meant that the family was the smallest political “unit”, not the individual. A family would speak in one voice, with the father/husband at the city gates saying, “I represent the ___ family, and we stand for ___.”
I’m sure you’ve heard the W.R. Wallace’s saying, “A mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.” Imagine the power women have through the education and daily care of her children. Imagine the worth of her work: educated, well-mannered, Godly children. Through Marxist writer Antonio Gramsci’s idea of “cultural hegemony”, socialists/feminists have convinced women that staying at home is demeaning and worthless. We see the way our culture is headed towards socialism. Imagine if mothers haven’t left the home and husbands/wives haven’t abdicated their responsibility of educating their children to the state. Our culture wouldn’t be anywhere near as messed up. History is my evidence of this.
If you’re interested, here are two articles from the Ladies Against Feminism site that may help explain better than I could here:
“What is Feminism?” and “You Don’t Know Feminism.” I hope this helps.

Send_Me on January 31, 2009 at 6:57 PM

A woman elected as POTUS is historical. That is newsworthy and an achievement for our country. There are some countries where women have only recently won the right to vote, and in others they are forced to have abortions, tortured or killed.

She entered beauty pageants to pay her way through college. She also won basketball championships. Beautiful, poised and competitive are pluses.

She supports the Second Amendment. That is important to many voters, and the NRA is a strong endorsement.

Her father was a schoolteacher. He taught science. She is not a creationist like some say. Education has also been a priority for her. As governor, she has increased funding for all services and most notably, those that tend to be under-served like special needs programs and teen outreach.

Her son is in the Army serving in Iraq. You should say ‘hi’ to him, if you’re over there. Thank you for serving America. We’re all proud of our troops, and it’s especially comforting when your CIC can personally relate to all the family members off our armed service personnel. They have sacrificed a great deal. Sarah Palin also visited wounded troops in Landstuhl, Germany on her way from checking on the Alaskan National Guard stationed in Kuwait. She had just won the election for Governor at the time.

Pro-life is her personal position. She supports a culture of life, which is technically part of the GOP platform.

Sarah Palin met Saakashvili, and she believes Georgia and Ukraine should be accepted into NATO. She thinks we should intervene on their behalf against Russian aggression, since they are key regional democracies.

She supported the surge. Obama and Biden did not and even argued that it didn’t succeed.

As a conservative, she believes in a strong national defense, limited government and fiscal restraint. Her record is exceptionally good on these issues, and she can explain her record when she’s up for reelection or running in a primary.

How are socialism and feminism “inextricably linked”? On the one hand, feminism is the belief in the right of women to have political, social and economic equality with men. While socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal opportunities for all individuals with a fair or egalitarian method of compensation. What does one have to do with the other?

The only chance she has for a ’12 nomination is to beat Obambi in the next primaries. Only a failed BHO admin could set such a stage. In that case, what hope does she have of winning the national election against the likes of a competent conservative? Beat out by BHO in ’08 thus denying her chance to “break” the glass ceiling, only to see Palin be the 1st Woman POTUS in ’12 would be devastating to her. After all, either BHO succeeds & goes for a second term or he loses his reelection bid in the ’12.

Her earliest realistic chance wouldn’t come until 2016. Think HRC looks rough now, wait till she’s a cackling 70-year old hag. By then the only “first” then available to her would be to pose as the Virtual Hispanic, just Slick Willy was the 1st “Virtual Black”. Alternatively, she might shoot for being the 1st Lesbo. Either way, would America, could America, be ready to accept a shrivelled-as-MadAlien-DimLight Ice Queen? I doubt it.

At this point, her only hope for change is to replace Obambi by hook or crook and sooner than later at that. Otherwise, she’ll have to plan for a return to the Senate in 2016. Then again, maybe a seat on the Supreme Court. Nowthat’s a change that gives me the chills.

Bottomline, the GOP needs to be more like Palin and less like the perpetually bent-over bi-partisan wusses that led us to ruin in the first place. Only then can conservatives begin to regain ground on lost congressional seats in 2010 and beyond. Whether Palin is elected to ascend to the Oval Office is beside the point. Conservatives can’t win by being like McVain, but we can win by being more like Palin.

Believe me in four years months we will have plenty of Obama gaffes to choose from.

terryannonline on January 30, 2009 at 9:03 PM

FIFY.

I have a degree in political science,…..

Noneya on January 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM

Gosh, what do you know, I have one of those too.

That degree and 5 bucks will get you cup of coffee in Starbucks.

I have a degree in political science,…..

Noneya on January 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM

I guess that means twenty two?

how about the fact that 18-29 year olds preferred Obama over McCain by 2 to 1?

Noneya on January 30, 2009 at 7:53 PM

If you actually do have the degree you claim you do, certainly you know that younger people always trend liberal. This isn’t news, and it doesn’t last.

As to the polling, haven’t we always heard that we’re a center right country? Surely that explains it easy enough if true.

Noneya on January 30, 2009 at 9:05 PM

Uuuh Noneya, Sarah palin didn’t say that she could see Russia from Her house.If you’re going to quote people
do some research first.She said some people in Alaska can see Russia from where they live…..maybe you should continue your education

She puts forward true conservative ideals and backs them up with action. I can support her for President ANY DAY. She, unlike the rest of the crap swirling around that toilet called DC, actually achieved something.

at least Sarah is looking out for Putin for you!

Vernon Roadapple on January 30, 2009 at 8:56 PM

Which is a good thing, since Putin alreeady has the new Euroweenie President’s nuts in a jar on his desk. It took the Girlieman from Kenya only, what, a week to start rolling back the missile defense in Europe? This bigeared weenie makes Jimmah Carter look like a stand up guy.

Exit question two: Time for a Democratic rethink on that Limbaugh strategy?

Hell no! We WANT to get/keep conservatives energized.

BuckeyeSam on January 31, 2009 at 7:45 AM

I am experiencing grow respect for Rep. Cantor. Early days yet but I like it when someone has the guts to take a snarky shot at the opposition.

how about the fact that 18-29 year olds preferred Obama over McCain by 2 to 1?

I’m among the 1.

also: 25 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds now identify with no religion

oh, and they also strongly support gay marriage.

Noneya on January 30, 2009 at 7:53 PM

Sick. I’m among the 75% on the first and the sane percent on the second.

Compliments of a blogger on TeamSarah

Cheers!