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Related: About this forumTucker Carlson: Young people people can’t decide what to eat, so don’t let them vote
By David Edwards
Sunday, January 26, 2014 9:55 EST
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Sunday suggested that 17-year-olds should not be allowed to pre-register to vote because they were not capable of choosing an entrée at a restaurant.
In Sunday morning Fox & Friends report, Carlson noted that new state regulations from raising the minimum wage to banning tanning beds could curtail your personal freedoms.
Carlson told Campus Reform reporter Katherine Timpf that one law that he was concerned by states like Illinois and Colorado allowing people as young as 17 to pre-register and participate in party primaries if they would be 18 in time for the general election.
I have a 17-year-old, whom I love more than my own life of course, but are 17-year-old really capable of choosing an entrée at a restaurant, much less voting? the Fox News host wondered. I mean, for real. Do we want them voting?
Timpf, however, argued that many young people were disappointed in President Barack Obama and that Carlson could be surprised by the youth vote.
Watch this video from Fox News Fox & Friends, broadcat Jan. 26, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/26/tucker-carlson-young-people-cant-decide-what-to-eat-so-dont-let-them-vote/
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Tucker Carlson: Young people people can’t decide what to eat, so don’t let them vote (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2014
OP
Yeah, but it's just fine to send them to the desert with machine guns and such. At least they
libdem4life
Jan 2014
#4
Well, Bowtie Boy, you don't have a brain--does that mean we can tell you that you can't vote?
Arkana
Jan 2014
#5
Based on that logic, Tucker should not be allowed to vote either. What a douchebag.
madinmaryland
Jan 2014
#7
He is beyond smarmy. I think he is overwhelmed by the choice of bow ties in the morning.
kairos12
Jan 2014
#9
Lots of voters aren't really able to make informed choices, that's not my real concern...
Hippo_Tron
Jan 2014
#10
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)1. Tucker How's the blow
big cokehead in college
Paladin
(28,265 posts)2. Tucker Carlson doesn't have a brain, yet he's a national political commentator.
Yeah, I know it's Fox, so he doesn't stand out. But still.....
Kber
(5,043 posts)3. If his 17 year old is really as described
Then he's a horrible dad. I suggest that his kid shouldn't vote at all
Mine, on the other hand, will be just fine in the voting booth.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)4. Yeah, but it's just fine to send them to the desert with machine guns and such. At least they
don't have to "order their meals"...the MREs do it for them. Fool.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)5. Well, Bowtie Boy, you don't have a brain--does that mean we can tell you that you can't vote?
otohara
(24,135 posts)6. How Old Was Tucker When He Voted
for the first time - did he disenfranchise himself in the name of immaturity?
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)7. Based on that logic, Tucker should not be allowed to vote either. What a douchebag.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)8. More of that
freedom fighting from the Right, I see.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)9. He is beyond smarmy. I think he is overwhelmed by the choice of bow ties in the morning.
Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)10. Lots of voters aren't really able to make informed choices, that's not my real concern...
The real issue, is at what age are people capable of making their own decisions to the extent that their votes will not just be an extension of their parents. I'd say that 17 voting in a primary for a GE in which you will be 18 is totally fine. But if we get too much younger, it becomes a problem.