young guns

Oops... So yesterday I talked about the outreach Karl Rove is doing or says the GOP should do to young voters. Turns out that the GOP program that works to get young donors in it is filled with "young guns" in their 50's...

Maybe age is just a state of mind - or an arbitrary number. If you feel young, if you feel there are songs to be sung... or even better if you're a previous member of the GOP's Young Egles program and you like to go to bondage strip clubs then the Young Guns is for you - just bring your checkbook...

Via the Daily Beast:

In fact, the current crop of the 22 Young Guns looks very much like the old generation of conservative leaders. These upstarts together average an age of 49.6 years old — two months shy of the average age of new members who joined Congress in 2008. And those current reps are no spring chickens themselves. According to one analysis, the 111th Congress is the oldest, on average, of any since 1907.

More than half of the Young Guns, having celebrated the big 5-0, are already eligible for an AARP membership. Only two of the group’s designated candidates– Martha Roby, who is running for Alabama’s 2nd District, and district attorney-cum-reality-television star Sean Duffy, who is running for the open seat in Wisconsin’s 7th District — are under the age of 40.