In 1980. Not today, son.
P. J. O'Rourke was right about at least one non-car-related thing: if you want to know who will win the next election, see which side the pretty coeds are supporting. During my college years and the Reagan Tragedy that was the GOP, no question.
Now it's the Democrats, and it's a rout. Sure, there are thousands of cute home schooled future Stepford Wife blondes regurgitating the poison daddy poured into their shell-like ears. The chick with the problem in her pants is one of them. But there are millions of cute intelligent, self-aware liberal young women out there -- very confident, driven by their own snipers on the roof to establish their worth and their individuality while also creating loving families. Those women are the real future and their youth and beauty combined with their passion and ideal makes them smoking hot.
The fading beauty in the conservative world is more and more the sad beauty of cute but immature (in many ways) girls in those creepy Jeffords Fundamentalist Mormon compounds on the CO/AZ border. Their babbling of CPAC bumper stickers is a pathetic longing for the real love the puerile males in their lives fail to give them. Perhaps when the smoke has cleared some of them will find real love with real men on the left.