WisPolitics offered the following summary of J.B. Van Hollen's convention speech yesterday. While he was busy trying to disprove the assertion that the GOP hasn't adequately targeted younger voters, he proved a different point entirely.
The future of the GOP is safe, folks: safe in the hands of a bunch of white guys born between 1963 and 1973, most of whom have spent the majority of their adult lives as government employees.
Maybe the problem isn't just with the message. Maybe the GOP could stand for a slightly more diverse group of messengers, too.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen isn't buying the notion that Republicans have failed to adequately reach out to young people.
He told delegates he looked at his table last night and saw GOP chair Reince Priebus at 36 years old, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan at 38, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker at 40 and himself at 42, the "old man at the table."
"Folks, we've got a future," Van Hollen said, adding that Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch is 43 and 44-year-old John Gard has got a good shot at the 8th CD this fall.
The future of the GOP is safe, folks: safe in the hands of a bunch of white guys born between 1963 and 1973, most of whom have spent the majority of their adult lives as government employees.
Maybe the problem isn't just with the message. Maybe the GOP could stand for a slightly more diverse group of messengers, too.
2 comments:
They are diverse. Some drink their scotch with water and some use soda. At least tow of them part their hair on the other side.
What do you mean, not diverse?
And a few have mustaches…they are the minorities
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