National Post: Conservatives can’t win by being the party of angry old men

[mentalfloss]

Conservatives can’t win by being the party of angry old men

Immutable truth No. 1: Granddad, it’s time for you to take a step back. Conservatives can’t win by being the party of angry old men who shake their fists at reporters, endearing though such cantankerousness may be.

Immutable truth No. 2: Lynton Crosbie’s niqab gambit, if indeed that was the Australian consultant’s brainchild, was an unmitigated disaster. The party can’t win without support from new Canadians and ethnic and linguistic minorities, by the hundreds of thousands.

Immutable truth No. 3: The Harper Conservatives were always more Harper than conservative. The party can’t win unless it stands for principles that are coherent and consistent, distinct from its competitors’ and popular enough to push its vote share from 30 per cent, its rock-solid base, to 40 per cent or more, assuming a continuation of Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system.

Here’s the good news, for Conservative supporters: There is a way forward that addresses each of these points, and is in fact being eased by the Liberal and New Democratic parties’ own strategic shifts. And the bad news: It requires candid self-examination and a transformation in mindset, something for which Conservatives have in the recent past shown no appetite.

Michael Den Tandt: Conservatives can’t win by being the party of angry old men | National Post

 

[petros]

Your are what? 38 or 39 now? You are an old man.

 

[Ludlow]

There's a growing young crowd among conservatives their not all grouchy old farts like Sheriff Joe.

that's US politics though ,,nevermind. Didn't look at the title.

 

[davesmom]

Another year of Trudeau's government and there won't be anything but angry old men, angry young men, angry everybody! Angry men and women everywhere

 

[mentalfloss]

Donald Trumpsfeld certainly qualifies.

 

[damngrumpy]

There could well be a clash between the young ideal left and the right wing youth
if both come out to vote the left will join with the other interest groups and ethnic
voters and the right will have an uphill climb. The reason I say that is the current
Presidential hopefuls represent specific constituencies
Trump the restless anger of the right
Bush the main stream Republicans
Cruz The Born again Christians and fundamental religious crowd
Rubio is really a Tea Party candidate in my view.

They are divided and about division within America and their party. Not one of them
is a statesman like person with the attitude they give a damn about the ordinary guy
they just want to borrow his anger Anger dissipates and some point leaving a
vacuum in the wake of nonsense

 

[darkbeaver]

Angry old men are a movement that will crush everything in thier path,

you young people make me want to puke

 

[pgs]

There could well be a clash between the young ideal left and the right wing youth
if both come out to vote the left will join with the other interest groups and ethnic
voters and the right will have an uphill climb. The reason I say that is the current
Presidential hopefuls represent specific constituencies
Trump the restless anger of the right
Bush the main stream Republicans
Cruz The Born again Christians and fundamental religious crowd
Rubio is really a Tea Party candidate in my view.

They are divided and about division within America and their party. Not one of them
is a statesman like person with the attitude they give a damn about the ordinary guy
they just want to borrow his anger Anger dissipates and some point leaving a
vacuum in the wake of nonsense

Wow main stream republicans garner a whole 6% of the vote causing Bush to drop out of the race .
How main stream is 6% ?

 

[Jinentonix]

More garbage from Flossie. Average median age of Conservative party members; 40.7 years
Average median age of Liberal and Dipper party members; 41.2 years.
Sounds like the leftards have become the angry old men.

 

[Curious Cdn]

41.2 is "old"?

 

[taxslave]

More garbage from Flossie. Average median age of Conservative party members; 40.7 years
Average median age of Liberal and Dipper party members; 41.2 years.
Sounds like the leftards have become the angry old men.

Have to include brainless in that.

41.2 is "old"?

According to the kids that are hired as journalists these days.

 

[mentalfloss]

More garbage from Flossie. Average median age of Conservative party members; 40.7 years
Average median age of Liberal and Dipper party members; 41.2 years.
Sounds like the leftards have become the angry old men.

And here we have Exhibit A.

You'll notice the constant desire to scratch the dorsal fin, though the lack of significant extremities prevent the subject from doing so.

 

[Liberalman]

The federal Conservatives have to get rid of their KKK Reform chains if they want to govern in the future

 

[mentalfloss]

They have to get rid of their inflexible economic policy as well.

 

[Jinentonix]

And here we have Exhibit A.

You'll notice the constant desire to scratch the dorsal fin, though the lack of significant extremities prevent the subject from doing so.

You'll notice Flossie has to resort to immaturity when he gets called on his bs.

 

[mentalfloss]

The conventional response to empty rhetoric from angry curmudgeons is humour.

You should try it some time.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

See, it's not so hard.

 

[MHz]

The last dying gasp from the babyboomers. The generation that lived high on the hog and it only took 2 World Wars (100M deaths in all) to give one generation of 'workers' a false idea of the good things that come out of massive, eternal wars and the banks still get paid no matter who the winner is. If anybody should go down in history it should be us.

 

[EagleSmack]

Wow main stream republicans garner a whole 6% of the vote causing Bush to drop out of the race .
How main stream is 6% ?

Prepare yourself for a whole lot of density with that one.

He probably thinks Bush is still in the race.

 

[Ron in Regina]

The federal Conservatives have to get rid of their KKK Reform chains if they want to govern in the future

What? Please expand upon this statement with some
sort of supporting information (like a LINK) to support
this claim if you are able to. Really? KKK? Thank You
in advance.

 

[EagleSmack]

Baby Boomers are fading... as will their dreams. The hippies are all old and white.