Repeal the 26th Amendment!

[boomerang]

Oh Ann, your snarky form of sarcasm appeals to me on so many levels.

Repeal the 26th Amendment!

Clinton only threatened to wreck the health care system; Obama actually did it. We must repeal the 26th Amendment.

Adopted in 1971 at the tail end of the Worst Generation's anti-war protests, the argument for allowing children to vote was that 18-year-olds could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they ought to be allowed to vote.

But 18-year-olds aren't allowed to drink anymore. We no longer have a draft. In fact, while repealing the 26th Amendment, we ought to add a separate right to vote for members of the military, irrespective of age.
As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."

I like it. But we really need to strengthen the laws concerning deployed military voting. Too many states took advantage of a loophole in the law.

Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses.

Ah-hah! So there is actual science behind mandating that children be allowed to remain on their parents' health insurance. She's right, the voting age must be raised. We can't have individuals who statistically aren't capable of making rational, informed decisions voting. At least not along with illegals and convicted felons.

I'm willing to go with either-or but not all.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses.

You see that around here.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Solution: allow 18-year olds to drink.

 

[ayabe]

Only 10% of 18-29 year olds voted, guess that was still too high for you.

Love the fear though, because deep down Republicans know that their powerbase is dying off, replaced by young people who don't hate gays and the children of hispanic immigrants.

I guess this would be one way to delay the inevitable because the notion that this is a center right country would evaporate pretty quickly if merely 20% of that age demo votes.

No hope for you chumps in 2012, because they'll be coming out to the polls and another R huckster will go down in flames.

 

[boomerang]

Only 10% of 18-29 year olds voted, guess that was still too high for you.

Love the fear though, because deep down Republicans know that their powerbase is dying off, replaced by young people who don't hate gays and the children of hispanic immigrants.

I guess this would be one way to delay the inevitable because the notion that this is a center right country would evaporate pretty quickly if merely 20% of that age demo votes.

No hope for you chumps in 2012, because they'll be coming out to the polls and another R huckster will go down in flames.

I was wondering who was going to be the first left-leaner to take this really serious.

Congrats, it's you. Oh, and whooosh!

 

[zsdersw]

Ann Coulter is one of those people who increases her wealth by increasing her insanity.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Only 10% of 18-29 year olds voted, guess that was still too high for you.

Love the fear though, because deep down Republicans know that their powerbase is dying off, replaced by young people who don't hate gays and the children of hispanic immigrants.

I guess this would be one way to delay the inevitable because the notion that this is a center right country would evaporate pretty quickly if merely 20% of that age demo votes.

No hope for you chumps in 2012, because they'll be coming out to the polls and another R huckster will go down in flames.

And we have our first example!

 

[Anarchist420]

I like Ann Coulter, but she fails to remember that her beloved President, Reagan, is responsible for the drinking age going up.

On the other hand, I agree--the States should decide who can vote.

All post-Counter-Revolution Amendments should be repealed.

Or maybe all of the Amendments plus all 7 Articles.

 

[PeshakJang]

Only 10% of 18-29 year olds voted, guess that was still too high for you.

And when polled, they are the least informed by a large margin. Heck, most of them didn't know whether the Republicans or the Democrats were in control of congress for the last 2 years.

Love the fear though, because deep down Republicans know that their powerbase is dying off, replaced by young people who don't hate gays and the children of hispanic immigrants.

So this is really about you being a bigot.

I guess this would be one way to delay the inevitable because the notion that this is a center right country would evaporate pretty quickly if merely 20% of that age demo votes.

No hope for you chumps in 2012, because they'll be coming out to the polls and another R huckster will go down in flames.

Cry a little more. Claiming that you'll win by convincing a bunch of uninformed, malleable youth to vote for you is really classy though.

 

[zsdersw]

Ann Coulter is to be taken no more seriously than Keith Olbermann.

 

[Scotteq]

Ann Coulter is to be taken no more seriously than Keith Olbermann.

...but aren't they both the same bra size?? :awe:

 

[zsdersw]

...but aren't they both the same bra size?? :awe:

Probably... -A.

 

[Scotteq]

Small B <laugh>

 

[Bird222]

Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses.

If this is true then we shouldn't allow people to join the military until age 25.

 

[dank69]

If this is true then we shouldn't allow people to join the military until age 25.

Or law enforcement :ninja:

 

[boomerang]

...but aren't they both the same bra size?? :awe:

LOL! We need more humor in here.

 

[Red Dawn]

...but aren't they both the same bra size?? :awe:

Yeah but her Adam's apple is bigger.

 

[Scotteq]

Yeah but her Adam's apple is bigger.

...ballz, too :awe:

 

[PJABBER]

Service Guarantees Citizenship!

 

[nobodyknows]

Solution: allow 18-year olds to drink.

LOL, they do.

 

[Bird222]

Service Guarantees Citizenship!

LOL! I like that movie. So over the top.

 

[Elias824]

The MAJOR flaw with this is that, what if your parent dont have insurance they you you dot get health insurance still. Then your just dont have insurance and cant vote! Yes lets start taking away peoples rights because they dont vote they way we think they should.

 

[PJABBER]

LOL! I like that movie. So over the top.

The book is better! :awe:

 

[Exterous]

Love the fear though, because deep down Republicans know that their powerbase is dying off, replaced by young people who don't hate gays and the children of hispanic immigrants.

Anyone who tries to base the legitimacy of their policies by how many 18-29 year olds vote for it needs to be automatically disqualified from running.

Seriously though, my generation is lazy, ignorant and has an over the top sense of self importance/entitlement. The upcoming generation is even worse. If/when they vote in large numbers they will vote in people who give them what they want - a lack of personal responsibility - to tell them everything is fine and you will be taken care of no matter what you do because it's not your fault

I am not saying they shouldn't be allowed to vote - only that using them to validate the legitimacy of ones argument is not exactly the best idea

 

[manimal]

The book is better! :awe:

Mobile infantry in MECHS!!!!! I was sooo disapoint that the Starshiptroopers didnt have mechs.....


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