Ben Ferguson to McCain: Don’t Bother with Young People
By Lee Fang - Jul 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pmBen Ferguson, the 27-year-old right-wing activist, is the media’s go-to guy for all matters relating to young people and conservative politics. After all, Ben is quite the specimen: he abhors MTV and popular youth culture, is a proud virgin, and routinely mocks progressive causes through his nationally syndicated talk-show and newspaper column. On CNN this weekend, he had some telling advice for John McCain:
FOREMAN: Ben, let me ask you this question then. If you’re a young conservative and you’d like more people to support McCain, presumably, what does John McCain do at his age to reach across that gap because truly there are so many young people who I run into who say, I respect him, he’s a great guy, he’s wonderful. But he’s so different than me.
FERGUSON: I’ll be honest with you, if I’m advising John McCain right now, I would tell him to not inspire young people to come out and vote because for every one he turns out to vote for him, he’ll end up inspiring two or three other people to come out and vote for Barack Obama.
FOREMAN: Let’s not get out the youth vote movement?
FERGUSON: Yes, if you’re John McCain, I wouldn’t want to inspire young people. That’s going to get that movement vote to kick your tail. And that’s the last thing he needs to do.
Lee Fang is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland.
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