Capturing the Youth Vote, conservative style

McCain lost the Youth Vote. Badly. He didn’t just lose. He got drubbed. The catastrophe could be seen coming, as the GOP stopped spending time and money on college campuses, especially since President Reagan left office. The ironic thing is that young people are innately conservative, an argument I developed in a Washington Times op-ed before the election. McCain, needless to say, didn’t pay any attention.

But now, the election is over, and the GOP realizes that they are in very real danger of losing a whole generation of young people. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here’s my advice to conservative politicians, courtesy of Fox & Friends:

I’ll have more thoughts on what I’m about to say in another post, but the last thing the GOP should do to attract young people is to cave on social issues, as the chattering class of self-anointed strategists are advising. My suspicion is that pundits toeing the line of abandoning traditional conservatism are just cowards when it comes to defending unborn life and marriage. They’re uncomfortable, all too afraid of wrongly being labeled a bigot, homophobe, woman-hater, or whatever other slimy epithet the Left has at its disposal. For these pseudo conservatives, it’s just easier to embrace moral relativism so to be liked by the libs in the “drive-by” media.