Nevada GOPer: Republicans Can Win Young Voters By Embracing Party’s ‘Pat Robertson Wing’

[eridani]

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/nevada-goper-republicans-can-win-young

Republican state assemblyman Ira Hansen went on the Janet Mefferd Show yesterday and argued that the GOP made a grave mistake in avoiding social issues such as when they removed anti-gay and anti-choice language from its official platform. Instead, he feels Republicans should reflect on another era.

According to the Nevada assemblyman, Republicans are failing to win support from young voters because they are “being alienated partially because of this absence of values.” He went on to argue that Republicans could win support from new voters by embracing the “Pat Robertson wing” of the party.

Oh yes, please do this

He said, “We don’t see that younger recruitment into the party. I think they are actually being alienated partially by this absence of values. I also think as people get older, they lose some of their drive to fight, I think that’s even true of the pro-life, traditional marriage type crowd.”

He continued, “I think they are basically not just shell-shocked but there’s like — you know what, I’ve been fighting this twenty, thirty years; me, I’ve been involved in the Republican Party virtually since I was eighteen, going back to the Reagan era.”

He added, “But I’d probably say in Nevada you still see a big strong element going back to the Pat Robertson campaign in 1988, and that was when there was a huge fight here in Nevada between the Rockefeller wing of the party, as I call them, and the Pat Robertson wing. And with time the Robertson wing won and you had these social issues openly adopted by the Republican Party. And, by the way, in the ‘90s and 2000s, the Republican Party actually did very, very well in Nevada with those in the platform.”

Seriously, what the hell is going on with Nevada lately? Has he even seen Pat Robertson?

Please proceed, GOP.

[Gman]

1. MmmmOkay....sounds like a great strategy...

And I think they should throw everything into it.


I'll gladly support their stupid ideas and laugh when they fall on their faces.

[frylock]

2. we're screwn now!

[Mz Pip]

3. Depends on the definition of young

Young as in not dead yet? Robertson is a crackpot. Maybe he should run again and we can all see who actually turns out to vote got him. I doubt even young people in Nevada would be interested in his brand of conservatism.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Well, they obviously aren't conservative enough yet...

[deafskeptic]

5. Pat Robertson? Given rising Atheism among the young, I want what's Nev GOPer is smoking n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

6. HA! The GOP, self-proclaimed "small government," wants to get all up in everybody's bedroom and sex

lives and family planning and procreation and contraception and, well, the list is quite lengthy...

Today's GOP is proudly and loudly anti-GLBT, anti-woman, anti-education, anti-regulation, anti-Middle Class, anti-worker, anti-science, anti-choice, anti-UNITED States of America, anti-African American, anti-immigrant, anti-Latino/a, ...

[Rozlee]

7. He wonders why young people aren't joining the Republican Party?

Oh, I don't know. The Pat Robertson wing of it ought to be swarming with adherents. Especially from women, whom Robertson says are at fault if their husbands cheat. Or that you should cast out demons from second hand clothes you buy in case their previous owners were possessed. Or that men should move to states where wife beating is legal, wherever that is. And God stopped giving us miracles because Americans became too educated. With views like that, people should be fighting ass over teakettle to join the Pat Robertson wing of the Republican Party.

[Zorro]

8. Sounds like a winner to me

A winner for the Dems, that is.

You go with that, Ira!

[jmowreader]

9. The difference between Insanity and Conservatism

Insanity, or "troubleshooting a computer," is doing something the same way twice and expecting different results each time.

Conservatism is doing something that didn't work the first time even more forcefully the second in expectation that it'll work now, by damn.

[Indyfan53]

10. NOPE!

Stupid brown shirts!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. So many young people nowadays really want to support a party that hates "teh gays"

NOT!

But please persist in your delusion!

[marble falls]

12. I'd tell them, "go for it"!

[sakabatou]

13. Riiiight...

Because being bigoted, homophobic, misogynistic will get a lot of young voters.

In what universe is Ira Hansen living in?!