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aup at just muttering pointed out this post by The Anchoress dealing with the condescending attitudes of many left wing intellectual elitists towards President Bush. Some how they just can't accept that he reads Camus or even books they write.

One of The Anchoress' comments that aup (and I) particularly liked:

I wonder how they can reproduce with their noses so high in the air?

Well, through the magic of synchronicity (again), The Wall Street Journal published this op-ed piece by Arthur C. Brooks today, also:

The Fertility Gap

Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply.

Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They're not having enough of them, they haven't for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That's a "fertility gap" of 41%. Given that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections. Over the past 30 years this gap has not been below 20%--explaining, to a large extent, the current ineffectiveness of liberal youth voter campaigns today.

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The fertility gap doesn't budge when we correct for factors like age, income, education, sex, race--or even religion. Indeed, if a conservative and a liberal are identical in all these ways, the liberal will still be 19 percentage points more likely to be childless than the conservative.

Indeed, the snotty nose snobs seem to have trouble reproducing. Thank, God. Brooks cites more interesting facts in his article.

Often I had wondered about this very thing because of the obvious discrepancy between the liberals and conservatives amongst my siblings and myself. There are three liberals and two conservatives between us. We have a total of seven children. Six of the children belong to the two conservatives, my brother and myself.

I've taken delight that no matter how much my liberal siblings rant and rave, between my children and myself, we will out vote them. Now I find that it goes far beyond just my family to our society as a whole. Yee Haw!!

Maybe, this is why liberals do things like this. (Thanks again to just muttering.)

Of course, a philosophy where same sex marriage and terminating pregnancies are paramount is not conducive to reproduction. Perhaps the new left should adopt the rallying cry of "Make Babies, Not War."

Woody at GM Roper has some thoughts on The Fertility Gap.