Kids like sitting in mud making mud pies and getting covered in muck up to their eyeballs, they also like pulling scabs off their knees. We don’t see many grownups doing the same.
trump’s supporters have already expressed outrage that their support for him would be wiped out by a decision of the party bigwigs because he’s a mess of awful and incoherent policies and bigotry. That’s the part they like best, ability to govern is down on the list of why the support him.
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There is a profound difference between liking, and being fascinated by, something.
I’m fascinated by train wrecks, plane wrecks, car wrecks, ship wrecks, and almost any tragedy of monumental proportions, e.g.: Katrina, and many wars.
But that is hardly the same as liking them.
That having been said, I do remember watching the conventions when we finally got a TV in the 50’s, when I was 10 or so, and very much enjoying the process then, up until perhaps the '68 Democratic Convention, which was appalling to watch.
But those early (for me) conventions were a far different proposition than what the Republican Convention this year will be, which, I suspect, I will find fascinating. And, perhaps, will even like.
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"An Open Convention Would Make Kids Love Politics’
Just in case they don’t already love it after watching the GOP candidates behave like spoiled toddlers on stage.
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So, you aren’t convinced that “fun” and “chaos devolving into ugliness and violence” are one and the same?
Maybe Kasich has something like this in mind:
I like to think that the Dem race, in contrast, is:
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“Kids will spend less time focusing on Bieber and Kardashian and more time focusing on how we elect presidents. It will be so cool.”
Formerly:
While calling on sophomore Kayla Solsbak, who was nearly jumping out of her seat to get noticed, Kasich said with a laugh, “I’m sorry, I don’t have any Taylor Swift tickets.
Maybe kids aren’t the ones who should be less focused on celebrities, you condescending, shovel-faced, Linkin Park listening, troglodyte.
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Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Sunday that
he thinks an open convention would be a whole lot of fun – so fun, in
fact, that kids will pry their eyes from reality TV and ears from Justin
Bieber’s music to tune into politics.
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Hahahahaaa …Jebus (major facepalm)!!!
I’ll ask my 7 yr old grandson what he knows about political conventions and his interest in them. His current interest is in simple video games on his tablet. He’s not yet interested in “World of War Craft”. I strongly doubt he gives a shit about Kasich or Hillary or Drumpf.
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Oh, John. Fuck you. That is all.
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Yeah, love it like they loved the Democratic convention in 1968. Except this time, moar gunz!
Well… The kids really do need something worthwhile to do — And he cares SOOO much about them —
Not as much happening in school - –
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/06/30/Kasich_budget_vetoes.html
http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2015/07/gov_john_kasichs_vetoes_cut_33.html
This will make kids love politics in the same way that taking them to a slaughterhouse will make them crave hamburger.
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Gosh, the 1956 Democratic convention was when I began to love politics. There was a very spirited challenge for the vice presidential nomination- establishment favorite Estes Kefauver and handsome young John F. Kennedy. After that (at age 7), I was hooked and still am. There must be some more little kids like me out there.
The only way kids would enjoy an open GOP convention would be if it goes like this:
> We’re going to have an open convention… It’s going to be so much fun," Kasich said
I think the kids would really get off on an open carry convention. It would be just likie a violent, gory video game. Yahoo! I know that would make me love politics even more than I do already and it woud be a sure fire hit with the kids too.
Dang Secret Service spoil sports. $#GR&%/(GOP]
Yup - that meme was played out 15 years ago.
Key word here is “some.” Meaning 15-20 maybe?
It sounds almost like Jim Jones’ last words if you insert “religious cults” for “politics.”
Limpballs can make a guest appearance as Haystack Calhoun, but for Andre the Giant I got nothin’.
I’m sorry, my 11-year-old informs me that Justin Bieber is so 2014.
When your argument is “Kids are going to tune into our scripted has-been trainwrecks instead of the scripted has-been trainwrecks they used to watch” it’s kinda sad.
Also kinda sad that for Kasich anyone under 50 is probably considered part of the youth demographic.