Ann Coulter Wants Repeal of 26th Amendment, Says Today's Young People "Infantilized, Bicycle-Helmeted Children of the Worst Generation"

Ann Coulter, in a dig against President Obama, calls for repeal of 26th Amendment, saying 18 to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses or children.

It's been a while since I read any articles penned by right wing pundit Ann Coulter, so my interest was piqued when I noticed she was trending on the blog. True to form, she was spewing some crazy rhetoric -- repeal the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. For those of you who don't know, the 26th Amendment limited the minimum voting age to no more than 18. The Amendment, which was adopted on July 1, 1971, was in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and in part to partially overrule the Supreme Court's decision in Oregon v. Mitchell. What's funny about Ann Coulter's position, is that the Republicans have been gunning to amendment the Constitution to suit their narrow interpretation of the law. Here's an excerpt from Ms. Coulter's screed:

Jimmy Carter was such an abominable president we got Ronald Reagan, tax cuts, a booming economy and the destruction of the Soviet Union. Two years of Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress got us the first Republican Congress in half a century, followed by tax cuts, welfare reform and a booming economy –- all of which Clinton now claims credit for.

Obama's disastrous presidency has already produced Republican senators from Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Illinois; New Jersey's wonder-governor Chris Christie; and the largest House majority for Republicans since 1946. We deserve more. Clinton only threatened to wreck the health care system; Obama actually did it. We must repeal the 26th Amendment.

Adopted in 1971 at the tail end of the Worst Generation's anti-war protests, the argument for allowing children to vote was that 18-year-olds could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they ought to be allowed to vote.

But 18-year-olds aren't allowed to drink anymore. We no longer have a draft. In fact, while repealing the 26th Amendment, we ought to add a separate right to vote for members of the military, irrespective of age.

As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."

Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.

The meager tax young people paid for vehicle licensing fees on their cars threw them into such a blind rage that in 2003 they uncharacteristically voted to recall the Democratic governor of California, Gray Davis. Wait until they start making real money and realize they share a joint-checking account arrangement with the government! Literally wait. Then we'll let them vote.  

Ms. Coulter missed her calling. She shouldn't be solely an attorney or a so-called conservative "pundit," she should be a comedienne. She wants to disenfranchise young voters because they don't seem to fit her narrow and flawed views. I would like to point out to Ms. Coulter that there are many 18 - early 20 year olds living on their own, so what do you do about them? Take away their right to vote?

It's also ironic that Ms. Coulter would like to take away the right of young people to vote, since former President Ronald Reagan shellacked his opponent Jimmy Carter in the presidential election in 1980 by appealing to young people. He also managed to steal the younger voters from Walter Mondale, as Ms. Coulter accurately pointed out. So, let me ask, what is the problem? Why does she want to disenfranchise young people? She states today's youth "are the infantilized, pampered, bicycle-helmeted children of the Worst Generation." Wait, there's more:

They foisted this jug-eared, European socialist on us and now they must be punished. Voters aged 18 to 29 years old comprised nearly a fifth of the voting population in 2008 and they voted overwhelmingly for Obama, 66 percent to 31 percent.

And it only took 12 to 14 years of North Korean-style brainwashing to make them do it! At least their teachers haven't brainwashed them into burning books or ratting out their parents to the Stasi yet. (On the bright side, before teaching them book-burning, their professors would be forced to teach them what a book is.) It would make more sense to give public school teachers and college professors 20 votes apiece than to allow their impressionable students to vote.

Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.

Sorry, there's no other way to explain this screed but pure bullsh*t. Sorry, Ann Coulter, there are far too many other pressing issues, such as high unemployment, high foreclosure rates, that most people would rather worry about. This is beyond incredulous. It's plain ridiculous. For this she went to law school? Aren't her views a little like those of North Korea nutjob Kim Jong-Il? This is like watching an episode of Flip Wilson when he played Geraldine. Too funny Ann, too funny!