Love Fades

I've been waiting for this since last summer.  Over at The Corner, Katrina Trinko links to a New York Times article showing fading support among the young for Barack Obama.  It's no surprise.  Back during the campaign when he was all about hope-and-change and all that other garbage you could understand that the young and inexperienced would fall for his nonsense - nearly 70% voted for him - but it's dawning on them now what Obama is really all about.  I've been telling my buddy Mike for a year that this would happen as soon as young people realize that his programs are bankrupting their futures and will be supported overwhelmingly by their tax dollars.  If anyone should be outraged by this president and his policies it's the young.  It's taken them longer than the rest of us because they are less politically aware and more inclined to wishful thinking and gauzy feelings than us old folks.  But they are catching on as they graduate from college saddled with a boatload of debt and no hope of finding a decent job. The opportunity to convert this generation to lifelong conservatism has never been better though I expect the Republican Party will find a way to screw it up.