Comments for Margaret Hoover

Comment on Growing up with a Presidential Family by Danny

Danny — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:33:34 +0000

No Ed Nixon??

Comment on How the GOP Can Win Young Voters by Rbrt

Rbrt — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:16:14 +0000

As members of the millennial generation would say – good luck with that. The Republican party lost me sometime between the rush to war against Saddam and Rumsfeld mismanagement of it. I was infuriated by Paulson’s actions to cover, without any loses to bondholders, the mismanagement of the banks and the fact that Bush’s SEC missed the whole debacle.

As to the millennials, as you say, they are socially tolerant, the religious right will never let a like minded Republican win the nomination. But also, while the millennials lean conservative on fiscal issues they are concerned about more than just “jobs, jobs, jobs”. The ones I know are repulsed by a Republican party that is choosing to side with the current super-rich (predominantly old white males) over their generation when it comes to taxing or borrowing to pay for grandma’s health care. It is Republicans after all that have said the nation can not try to cap health care spending and can not raise taxes on the “job creators”. It’s the same party that has sided with corporations on trade deals and job exporting.

The Democrats may never again capture the hearts of the millennials the way they did in 2008 but the best the Republicans can hope for is that these kids are willing to hold their noses.

Comment on How the GOP Can Win Young Voters by Bill

Bill — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:27:26 +0000

Believe it or not there is way that the G.O.P. could unite young voters with social conservatives and at the same time still appeal to the younger voters who are more liberal on social issues. This is for the G.O.P. to fully embrace the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. If this occurs almost all moral or social issues will become local or state issues rather than federal issues. A more liberal state like California or New York will probably have laws which are liberal on social issues while a more conservative state like Georiga or Mississippi will likely be conservative on these issues ,and a more moderate state like Ohio will be somewhere in between. Such a plan will not satisfy everyone, but this I believe will come closer than just about any other plan. Such an idea has the potential to unite Republicans who are socially liberal with those who are socially conservative. The G.O.P. should seriously consider going in this direction for the 21st century.

Comment on How the GOP Can Win Young Voters by Howard Long MD

Howard Long MD — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:18:25 +0000

“Funding – to be paId by posterity – is swindling-!”
(Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor, 1816)

Like Margaret’s great grandfather, Jefferson foresaw.

I wish she would run for Congress in the district that includes UC Berkeley.

Comment on How the GOP Can Win Young Voters by Caryn Chaffin

Caryn Chaffin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:54:33 +0000

I went to see Ms. Hoover at the Nixon Library and I liked her message. Although I am older than the generation that Ms. Hoover was discussing, I have the same values and I have, over the years, become disenchanted with the Republican party. Similar to Ms. Hoover, I am the great-grandaughter of a Republican state senator from South Dakota. I come from a long line of Republican supporters, but I am dismayed by what has happened to the party. I called myself “fiscally conservative but socially liberal” before it was fashionable and railed against the taking over of the party by social conservatives. But no one from my generation was listening. I hope that this new generation – the millenials – will listen and bring the Republican party back from the brink of destruction.

Comment on How the GOP Can Win Young Voters by Ron Maggiano

Ron Maggiano — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:18:20 +0000

Excellent article, Margaret. I just ordered a copy of your book and look forward to reading it. Congratulations!

Comment on How the GOP Can Win Young Voters by Joaquin

Joaquin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:48:01 +0000

Where is the facebook like link ?

Comment on How the GOP Can Win Young Voters by Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:57:49 +0000

Howdy Ms. Hoover. As a member of the millennial generation, I could not agree more with your article. Many members of “my generation” (trying not to overgeneralize) just want a stable economy with a healthy job market. Many of us were promised jobs when we went to college, and once the crash of 08 happened, many of those jobs vanished. We are not really concerned with social issues. In fact, many of us disagree with the GOP on these issues. But if the GOP can help improve our economy and help recreate the job opportunities that were lost in 08, the millennials will reward them. However, if the GOP continues to make social issues like gay marriage and abortion talking points, they will quickly realize that they are preaching to deaf ears. Once again, great article Ms. Hoover. Cheers.

Comment on Margaret Talks Freedom to Marry in New York by daniel noe

daniel noe — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:05:04 +0000

From my perspective, the freedom to marry is very much like the freedom to go skydiving. Anyone is free to go skydiving, but many choose not to. They have no interest; they just aren’t into it. They may prefer skateboarding. In the same way, homosexuals choose not to marry becuase they just aren’t into it; they prefer something else that is superficially similar, but fundamentally different. So from my perspective, the debate is not over whether homosexuals are allowed to marry (they already have full marriage rights), it is over what word we will use to call homosexual unions. I believe in using different words to describe different things (it makes communication easier when language has more than just one word) so I call heterosexual unions “marriage” and homosexual unions by some other word (still pending, perhaps “civil union”). I also believe in freedom of speech. This means that I do not believe it my place to force others to use my terminology. Why then, do homosexual activists insist on pushing through measures that – at least for legal purposes – force the rest of us to adopt their terminology? Why change the definition of a perfectly good word, forcing us to have to invent a new word to identify what used to be called “marriage”? And the biggest question of all: Will they stop there? Or will they try to redefine the new word in the next generation? Based on some things I have seen written by these people, I suspect they will never be satisfied.

Comment on Hoover on O’Reilly – Culture Warriors by Bill Carr

Bill Carr — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:37:52 +0000

YOU GO GIRL!!!!!

Saw you on O’Reilly tonight. You ROCKED!!

Keep going. YOU and your message are EXACTLY what we need in this country, in this race, on this planet.

By far the best visit you’ve had on O’Reilly.

If you keep that attitude and enrgy up, we might be able to save this country.

Thanks!