TW: This piece in WaPo from a young Republican experiencing the bitter taste of political defeat warms my heart. As someone who came of age in the 80's when the FDR vintage Democratic party coalition finally disintegrated once and for all and the Reagan coalition emerged as the predominant American party, watching Republicans young and old squirm as they sense their own era passing is highly redemptive.
My advice is grow a thick skin because the next few years (decades) will be very annoying for you young man. Most of my friends were Reagan Republicans (of the economic sort), some of them have become older and wiser some merely quieter.
From in WaPo:
"...In the face of all this excitement, it's not an easy thing, moving on, especially for young conservatives, who don't have decades of experience behind us dealing with losses to Kennedy, Carter and Clinton.
...Hampton Williams, the head of NYU's College Republicans, is staying in town to prepare for the start of his last semester. "I have come to the conclusion that this will be the highlight of my liberal friends' lives," he told me over a flurry of Facebook exchanges. "Eight years down the road I will have a career and a family, and my liberal friends will have a faded Obama button." The slight tone of resentment did not go unnoticed.
...It was hard to find any conservatives in New York, in fact, who could put a happy spin on our grim situation. But I knew that if anyone could, it would be my friend Margaret Hoover, a political strategist whom I routinely bump into in the Fox News building. (Which, by the way, is the only refuge New York Republicans have. Walking into Fox is like slipping into a warm bath.)
...as bad as we have it in New York, my conservative friends in Washington have it worse, and many are planning their escapes. Lobbyist John Goodwin is spending four days with 10 pals in a cabin in Maryland, skiing and playing board games. J.P. Freire, the managing editor of the American Spectator, hopes to rent a lake or beach house with some buddies."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011604434.html
My advice is grow a thick skin because the next few years (decades) will be very annoying for you young man. Most of my friends were Reagan Republicans (of the economic sort), some of them have become older and wiser some merely quieter.
From in WaPo:
"...In the face of all this excitement, it's not an easy thing, moving on, especially for young conservatives, who don't have decades of experience behind us dealing with losses to Kennedy, Carter and Clinton.
...Hampton Williams, the head of NYU's College Republicans, is staying in town to prepare for the start of his last semester. "I have come to the conclusion that this will be the highlight of my liberal friends' lives," he told me over a flurry of Facebook exchanges. "Eight years down the road I will have a career and a family, and my liberal friends will have a faded Obama button." The slight tone of resentment did not go unnoticed.
...It was hard to find any conservatives in New York, in fact, who could put a happy spin on our grim situation. But I knew that if anyone could, it would be my friend Margaret Hoover, a political strategist whom I routinely bump into in the Fox News building. (Which, by the way, is the only refuge New York Republicans have. Walking into Fox is like slipping into a warm bath.)
...as bad as we have it in New York, my conservative friends in Washington have it worse, and many are planning their escapes. Lobbyist John Goodwin is spending four days with 10 pals in a cabin in Maryland, skiing and playing board games. J.P. Freire, the managing editor of the American Spectator, hopes to rent a lake or beach house with some buddies."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011604434.html
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