Republicans will never be cool. - Democratic Underground

Drunken Irishman

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Fri Feb-27-09 03:30 PM
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Republicans will never be cool.

Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 03:33 PM by Drunken Irishman

They need to accept that they just aren't the party of the New Generation, to steal a line from Pepsi.

The last time they flirted with cool was with Reagan, but even that had its limits and most of that was because the Democrats put up Mondale in 1984, anything but cool.

However, there isn't a cool Republican. George Bush wasn't cool and God knows his father was probably the dorkiest president we've had since...well Calvin Coolidge (also a Republican). Jindal is not cool. Just because he's young and Indian doesn't make him cool. Cool isn't something you can create and that's why the Republicans keep failing. They try to be cool and as we all know, when you're trying to be cool, you're so not cool.

Now Obama? He doesn't need to try. He is cool. He's cooler than the arctic in winter. You look at him and you instantly think he's cool. Same with Bill Clinton in the 90s. He was cool. But who do the Republicans have to rival that? Remember, this is the party who put up Bob Dole and John McCain to the coolest Democratic candidates in a long time.

But it isn't even just recent history, either.

Kennedy was cool. The whole Kennedy mystique was cool. You saw Kennedy with Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and you thought instant coolness.

Nixon? Not cool.

That isn't to say you have to be cool, it's just if you're not cool, admit it and move on. Unfortunately, Republicans haven't figured this out yet. John Kerry really isn't cool and I think he knew this, so he didn't try to act cool. Sure he did the goofy things candidates do, but he never really tried to be someone he wasn't. Now Dukakis? He did and he failed miserably, which goes to show not all Democrats are cool and not all Democrats understand if you're not cool, there is no point in trying to act it.

Now the Republicans will never and can never be cool because they're Republicans. They're the party of old white guys and it only starts to backfire when they try to get cool. I mean, we all know why Sarah Palin was picked as McCain's VP. Because he wasn't cool and they knew he wasn't cool, but they wanted to hip him up, so they brought on an attractive and young governor who could be cool. Except Sarah Palin isn't cool. She isn't cool because she's weird and weird is never cool. Sure, she was a hit among the younger Republicans, but they're young & Republican, so what the hell do they know about cool?

You see, Republicans need to understand their core values aren't cool. Michael Steele can go on and on about how wack it is to support civil unions, but let's be honest, anyone who's not even at the level of supporting civil marriage can't claim to be cool. It's not cool to be anti-gay in the 21st Century.

That, my friends, is the Republican Party's problem. They don't understand civilization took a huge step into the 21st Century. And as we all figured out in junior high and high school, once the trend has changed, if you don't, you're not and never will be cool.

Republicans are stuck in the 20th Century while the rest of us moved on to the 21st Century. They're like the kid who in 1995 was still wearing clothes from 1985. Definitely not cool.