Tucker Carlson: Young people people can’t decide what to eat, so don’t let them vote

[DonViejo]

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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[wilt the stilt]

1. Tucker How's the blow

big cokehead in college

[Paladin]

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]

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]

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]

5. Well, Bowtie Boy, you don't have a brain--does that mean we can tell you that you can't vote?

[otohara]

6. How Old Was Tucker When He Voted

for the first time - did he disenfranchise himself in the name of immaturity?

[madinmaryland]

7. Based on that logic, Tucker should not be allowed to vote either. What a douchebag.

[Jamaal510]

8. More of that

freedom fighting from the Right, I see.

[kairos12]

9. He is beyond smarmy. I think he is overwhelmed by the choice of bow ties in the morning.

[Hippo_Tron]

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.