“Most Republicans want home and hearth. They want babies and that family life.”
“There was just no way I could have supported any Republican this year,” said Stevenson, 31. “They skew so much to the religious right. … They focused so much on taxes. It’s not something that women in my demographic really care about. I’ve never heard my friends lament their taxes.”
As Republicans dust off their Election Day drubbing last month, their party must confront the reality that the ranks of unmarried women are growing rapidly, and these voters overwhelmingly have backed Democrats for decades…
Katy Atkinson, a GOP consultant in Denver, said that two elections in a row should be a warning sign for the GOP.
“That whole fighting social issues with economic issues just doesn’t work,” she said. Atkinson noted that both Romney, as well as Bennet’s opponent, Ken Buck, contended that women really cared about pocketbook issues rather than reproductive issues. “While women care about pocketbook issues, they don’t want to elect an extremist.”…
“Most people I know are Democrats and most Democrats I know are single,” said Koebcke, a project manager in Austin, almost 300 miles west of Denver. “Most Republicans want home and hearth. They want babies and that family life.”
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As opposed to Democrats, whose ideal lifestyle is screwing random strangers in their dingy apartment and going to Klanned Parenthood when they forget to wear a condom?
Sheesh! I get sick of the Republican Lifescript(tm) sometimes, but boy howdy you lot are no improvement whatsoever?
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 7:42 PM
Single people are in for a big surprise…
Blake on December 15, 2012 at 7:42 PM
So. Most Republicans care abou the future and their progeny. Democrats care about themselves. Sounds about right.
besser tot als rot on December 15, 2012 at 7:43 PM
Oh joy. As if all the ones we got already weren’t bad enough.
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 7:43 PM
Cat ladies in the making.
Punchenko on December 15, 2012 at 7:46 PM
If someone is married to Uncle Sam then that is who they are going to vote for.
sharrukin on December 15, 2012 at 7:48 PM
See, it’s your fault that there are so many Dems! (Where do you think they come from?)
OldEnglish on December 15, 2012 at 7:49 PM
There’s more to life than on your back, with your ankles behind your ears.
OldEnglish on December 15, 2012 at 7:51 PM
And it’s on something like this that we need to fight the culture wars. A philosophy dedicated entirely to selfish pursuits and immediate gratification, versus one that considers the welfare of others through the love of both family and country, the impact of one’s own actions, and deferred gratification for the sake of long-term gain.
What we’re staring down is nothing less than the dichotomy between foolishness and wisdom, and narcissism and love.
Stoic Patriot on December 15, 2012 at 7:54 PM
Just an amazing quote. AMAZING. Remarkably narrow and obtuse worldview.
Can anyone explain this mindset? Is this a “female” thing (I tend to doubt it), or is it a “31 years old” thing?
Robert_Paulson on December 15, 2012 at 7:56 PM
No, why would you bother with someone else, the world revolves around you.
Cindy Munford on December 15, 2012 at 7:56 PM
They don’t know the value of money. ….that is quite evident and that is why they have little problem with big government.
CW on December 15, 2012 at 8:00 PM
That’s pretty funny, because every payday where I work, there’s always a handful of people lamenting their taxes. And I live in a blue county.
tdpwells on December 15, 2012 at 8:00 PM
It is quite remarkable. Debt and deficits that will ultimately result in confiscatory tax rates for all Americans? Meh. Having to pay $8 a month for my own birth control? Who are these extremists!!1!
Kataklysmic on December 15, 2012 at 8:00 PM
As a 31 year old single female conservative, let me say no. It’s an idiot thing.
CityFish on December 15, 2012 at 8:01 PM
It’s a deliberate extension of her young teenage years, what I’ve heard called the “Barbie mentality” – outright dismissal of anything that doesn’t interest her as irrelevant.
Imagine a teenage daughter who absolutely refuses to take interest in anything boys, gossip, soap operas, and whatever “why no, I’m not a prostitute” clothing is currently ‘in fashion’ unless she is harangued into doing otherwise.
Now imagine a 20 or 30-something woman thinking and acting like that, and you’ll have a rough idea of what’s going on.
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 8:01 PM
A lot of women don’t understand this until it’s too late.
IR-MN on December 15, 2012 at 8:02 PM
It’s bad enough that men so often act like dogs but now we have made it nearly perfectly acceptable for women to do the same. It’s all about the big O for many. Our priorities in general are so phuckd.
CW on December 15, 2012 at 8:05 PM
Robert_Paulson on December 15, 2012 at 8:06 PM
That’s an utterly shocking discovery. I never would have guessed it.
What’s the tie-in to Global Warming?
CorporatePiggy on December 15, 2012 at 8:24 PM
I have kids. I care about what this country looks like after I die.
29Victor on December 15, 2012 at 8:35 PM
We should care whether we reproduce or not.
I care but there’s basically nothing left to do. I cannot outvote half or more of the country.
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 8:37 PM
Lib women want babies too, deep down. They just can’t admit it because it’s so convetional and Republican. My sister spent her fertile years chatting with other lib women in coffee houses and art fairs. She is childless and heartbroken.
Ted Torgerson on December 15, 2012 at 8:39 PM
Translation:
So much for deep thinking thoughtful Democrat meme.
CW on December 15, 2012 at 8:40 PM
Sad.
CW on December 15, 2012 at 8:41 PM
While I envy my 30-something daughter’s trips to party with friends in New York, and exciting work-related travels, perhaps I should change my nagging from “I want grandkids!” to “Don’t vote!”
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 15, 2012 at 8:44 PM
Both are fixable…unless you’ve spent so much of your life being a completely self-centered skank that your mannerisms are skewed and you’re not a hot young thing anymore. Fairy tales don’t happen IRL.
Sowing a few wild oats is fairly normal, but sowing them from dawn till dusk for years on end will result in a bitter harvest.
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 8:45 PM
Oh yeah, that’ll sure make her want to change her lifestyle more.
I will readily endure the times my parents gently hint at grandbabies. But if they told me I shouldn’t vote, I would reply with some rather socially unacceptable phrases.
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 8:47 PM
Which is why I was kidding!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM
Does she mean Mitt Romney?
SAZMD on December 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM
LOL! Ok, glad you were!
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 8:51 PM
Low info voter.
CW on December 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM
The pendulum swung hard this time, but I don’t see this as a linear trend.
At 26, I see so many of the girls I grew up with either with child or desperate to begin settling down. Our generation grew up in broken homes, well off mostly, but broken nonetheless, and by and large we hated it. My parents stuck together, but damn near all of my peers deeply resent their family life and everyone talks about doing things right – getting married, having kids, caring for them and raising them right, rather than the self absorbed parents we grew up with. Hell, to my mother’s great surprise even I got married, after sowing so many wild oats my parents gave up on the thought of grandchildren.
Expect the pendulum to swing back.
ernesto on December 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM
If you didn’t make any money until you were 26 years old, therein lies a large part of the problem. If you’ve spent the first 8 years of your adult life being supported by others, how surprising is it that you only think about yourself? I’d say at age 26 you should have been making money for at least 10 years.
Also, this notion that if you have a spouse and kids, you can’t enjoy yourself or your life disgusts me. I hear it all the time from young, single people who are utterly self-absorbed. I am married and have four young children and I am enjoying my life more than I ever have. Because I’ve realized what enjoyment of life actually means.
Shump on December 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM
Haha! Fact is, as much as I say it on here, I’d never even dropped a hint about wanting grandkids until about a month ago when she said she was thinking about marrying her boyfriend. Then I went totally overboard blabbing about all the places we, her poor grand-less parents had talked about taking her future children. It was days after that high when I realized she might just want a husband–not kids. Aaah well…
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 15, 2012 at 9:00 PM
I didn’t make any real money until I was 23 because I couldn’t even get hired at fast-food joints, despite not even having a traffic ticket to my name, unlike a good many of my peers.
Currently I’m praying that I’ll be good enough as a seasonal worker to be kept past Christmas. That is how scarce jobs are.
MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 9:09 PM
I wholeheartedly agree. It’s sad when I see my peers put off adulthood for too long. None of them are happy, though. They talk like the women in the article, that they aren’t looking for that family lifestyle, that they’d rather be doing what they’re doing, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy where they are. They’re all unhappy, but most figure it out sooner or later.
ernesto on December 15, 2012 at 9:11 PM
Just wait a month or two.
Left Coast Right Mind on December 15, 2012 at 9:17 PM
This is it in a nutshell. Most of these people have never been raised to respect other people’s beliefs or any rights that extend further than their own nose. If it doesn’t matter to them personally, then it doesn’t matter at all. They don’t get the concept of competing interests, or that others make care about something other than what you do. It doesn’t matter to them. Long term, strategic thinking is beyond them because there’s no immediate gratification.
njrob on December 15, 2012 at 9:59 PM
Yet that is exactly what they did. The “cognitive dissonance” is strong with this one.
njrob on December 15, 2012 at 10:01 PM
Nope, but you have to agree that is a nice start—or end, to a party.
PS, Australia sure is looking nice to someone that just wants to leave CA. Can I bring my guns or are they still banned?
arnold ziffel on December 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM