Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Can the GOP Attract Young Voters? Try Beer | Rule of Law

Can the GOP Attract Young Voters? Try Beer | Rule of Law
"GOP strategists have been warning that the sky is falling, that a demographic calamity is coming.  Young voters and voters to be, we are told, have no reason to vote Republican.
A fix to attract young voters might be sitting right in front of them, if congressional Republicans have the creativity to pop it open.
See the source imageOne of the sorriest sights I have ever seen in a bar occurred on the eve of the Gulf War in the fall of 1990. 
Soldiers from the nearby Army base were celebrating their final days in the states before being deployed to Saudi Arabia where they would eventually smash Saddam Hussein’s army in Kuwait.
The young soldiers were lined up at the bar. 
Instead of beer, they were sipping sodas because they weren’t old enough.
It was a sad, pathetic sight.
Soldiers who would soon ship out to war celebrating their final hours in the United States, and they were drinking Sprite.
If the Republicans want to attract young voters, then lead the charge to repeal the National Minimum Age Drinking Age Act that Democrats in Congress passed in 1984.
Loudly repeal the mandate and allow states to lower their drinking age to 18 from 21 without federal penalty.
Appeal to young voters with beer and bourbon..."
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