Washington Post: Pity Party for now unemployed young GOPers.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Right, and Left Out
Young Conservatives Can't Get With the Program
By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 26, 2009; Page C01

*snip*
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John O'Keefe, 23, another conservative think-tank intern who might be out of a job after his internship ends in May, dismisses his liberal contemporaries. "The only thing they have are blogs. They feel like gods of our generation," he says, before ruminating on a very Washington cure-all. "I'm hoping that people get at Obama and start forming political action committees."There's hope among today's young conservatives -- new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele just announced an "off the hook" public relations blitz to woo young people
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Others, meanwhile, worry that they might not have jobs in Washington for long. Recession-related reasons aside, right-of-center young people looking for steady work with an ideological bent are having an unusually difficult time. For much of the past decade, young conservatives enjoyed an array of job opportunities in the Republican-controlled Congress and at insulated, well-funded nonprofit organizations. But since Democrats gained control in 2006, many prized slots on Senate and House committees started going to the new majority. And now, there's no Republican administration in power to offer jobs to its own.

Young conservatives could apply for regular jobs, they acknowledge, but they also believe that their 20s are a safe age -- likely no children, often unmarried -- to start low- to moderate-paying jobs that potentially could launch prestigious careers in politics or public policy. The tough job market only reinforces their sense of being marooned. "

(And now the most WTF moment of this whole article)

"Siggins says he struggles with some of his party's more culturally orthodox ideals. "Because I am in this generation and was raised in a pro-gay-marriage era, I am only a little bit against gay marriage, but only a little, like 53 percent to 47," he says. "I have about a dozen gay friends, 30 or 20, and they would all back me up. In college, I used to have lunch with them. . . . We went ice skating once." "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503849.html?sid=ST2009022600141

[47of74]

1. The GOP Waaaambulance Rides Again!

[radfringe]

2. "off the hook" public relations blitz to woo young people ... lol

gimme a freaking break...

[Old and In the Way]

3. Cry me a river.

Let them live by their political philosophy. Get a job and quit complaining.

[tularetom]

4. "Some of my best friends are homos"

"We went ice skating once."

"But I avoided getting too close to them so teh gay wouldn't rub off on me."

What a tool.

[11 Bravo]

16. "I skated with faggots. I am one tolerant mother-fucker."

[closeupready]

5. that guy is delusional

if he thinks a dozen of his gay friends would back him up on his opposition to gay marriage. Er, I mean, unless they are the twelve members of Log Cabin.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. Well he also things the word "dozen" means "20 or 30" so...yeah.

[closeupready]

7. Yeah. WTF, indeed.

:rofl:

[Egnever]

8. Um shouldn't they be taking personal responsibility?

I mean its their fault they are out of a job now isn't it? Isn't that the puke mantra? If you lost your job its cause you are a deadbeat!

[durablend]

9. Nobody wants them--that's the problem

STFU you WATBs and pull yourselves up by your jockstraps!

[Mari333]

10. they can ENLIST nt

[CreekDog]

11. "I have gay friends..."

:eyes:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. The reporter should have just let him keep talking. That dozen might have become 100.

They were multiplying through his sentence like the loaves and fishes.

[DebbieCDC]

12. See ya at McDonald's

Want fries with that whine?

[Marr]

14. Why don't they enter the fucking MARKETPLACE?

Why don't they stop feeding off the government (a think tank position is a type of government job, in my opinion) and actually *produce* something?

[Brewman_Jax]

15. Hey, just grab hold of those bootstraps

and pull away! :silly:

I have no doubt that they'd say the same thing to anybody else in the same situation.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

22. Almost assuredly.

[gratuitous]

17. Wow, 23 and washed up

Poor career choice there, Mr. O'Keefe. Guess there's nothing for it but to go back home and live in Mom's basement.

[KG]

18. hey Young conservatives! how bout a career in the military? oh, you're really pants wetting cowards?

thought so.

[blm]

21. and don't forget to take your purple bandaids with you.......

.

[WI_DEM]

19. "all they have are blogs" Hey Twit! Look at all the organizing we did in '06 and '08 with those

blogs. You're just a jealous uptight GOP asshat who probably is a 23 year old virgin.

[jtrockville]

20. So competence now trumps ideology?