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elleng

(131,197 posts) Thu Aug 9, 2012, 12:14 PM Aug 2012

Young in G.O.P. Erase the Lines on Social Issues.

Matt Hoagland, the county leader of a group of young North Carolina Republicans, is busy trying to ramp up enthusiasm for Mitt Romney at the grass-roots level. So there are a few things he avoids mentioning to prospective young voters he wants to woo, including the hot-button topics like abortion and same-sex marriage, which have dominated campaigns past.

“Social issues are far down the priorities list, and I think that’s the trend,” Mr. Hoagland, 27, said. “That’s where it needs to go if the Republican Party is going to be successful.”

Zoey Kotzambasis, vice president of the College Republicans at the University of Arizona, considers herself a conservative. But she supports both same-sex marriage and abortion rights. Those are not just her opinions.

“A lot of the College Republicans I know share the same liberal-to-moderate social views,” she added. “And I think that’s changing the face of the party.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/us/politics/young-republicans-erase-lines-on-social-issues.html?hp

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Young in G.O.P. Erase the Lines on Social Issues. (Original Post) elleng Aug 2012 OP

Yet they go out to get votes for a man who intends to overturn those liberal positions. freshwest Aug 2012 #1

Love to know what they think of Romney's tax plan, Ryan's budget and the opposition to ACA. DCKit Aug 2012 #2

Romney will say or do anything to win, not matter who gets killed: freshwest Aug 2012 #3

Who would you rather see: toddwv Aug 2012 #4

Um, Zoey honey, the face of the party IS changing, but the "after" photo is a crazy old white guy Squinch Aug 2012 #5

So why are they Republicans? qwlauren35 Aug 2012 #6

Now that Ryan is Romney's VP pick . . . Brigid Aug 2012 #7

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

1. Yet they go out to get votes for a man who intends to overturn those liberal positions.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 12:26 PM

Aug 2012

Huh.

DCKit

(18,541 posts)

2. Love to know what they think of Romney's tax plan, Ryan's budget and the opposition to ACA.

Reply to freshwest (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:18 PM

Aug 2012

The Republicans have nothing but talking points and empty rhetoric. That they've, thus far, been able to avoid having to answer any questions about their "plans" is amazing. The Presidential debates are going to be a hoot.

"We don't have a plan, we just don't like Obama."

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

3. Romney will say or do anything to win, not matter who gets killed:

Reply to DCKit (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:28 PM

Aug 2012

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ George Orwell

toddwv

(2,830 posts)

4. Who would you rather see:

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 03:15 PM

Aug 2012

More Romney's (forced to pander to the basest segment of the right-wing) or
More Bachmann (loves her far right-wing job)?

Squinch

(51,043 posts)

5. Um, Zoey honey, the face of the party IS changing, but the "after" photo is a crazy old white guy

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 04:31 PM

Aug 2012

shooting himself in the ass while reaching for his wallet on line in Walmart. He's a guy who is pissed that he isn't being deferred to by the women folk and the black folk, and he has a very strange and very creepy need to assert his domination over my vagina.

qwlauren35

(6,150 posts)

6. So why are they Republicans?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 11:45 AM

Aug 2012

Are their parents part of the 1%? That's the only reason I can think of...

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

7. Now that Ryan is Romney's VP pick . . .

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 11:58 AM

Aug 2012

These young Republicans ought to be made to read everything Ayn Rand ever wrote. That ought to cure them.

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