Jason Mattera Sums Up Yesterday's Primaries, and What All Young Voters are Doing

Though Jason Mattera’s bio cites his appearances with “the biggest names in talk radio” and does not mention you-know-who, Imus was still kind to his guest, who claimed that his bio was about a year old.

He added, “There is nothing more delightful than being here at 6:30 in the morning, staring at your mug. It’s better than coffee.”

Now that Mattera, the author of Obama Zombies, had told two lies this morning, he moved on to talk of yesterday’s primaries, where longtime Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, a Democrat, lost his primary, as did the establishment Republican candidate in Kentucky’s Senate race, Trey Grayson, who lost to Tea Partier Rand Paul, son of Ron.

“The Obama administration is certainly going to have this line, ‘It’s just anti-incumbent, it has nothing to do with President Obama’s approval ratings,’” said Matters. “That’s just a lot of BS.”

In Arkansas, Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln will face a runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in June, since she failed to win a majority of votes. “There was actually a third Democrat who ran, and siphoned off votes from Blanche Lincoln,” Mattera, also the editor of Human Events, reported. That candidate, D.C. Morrison, ran to repeal the tax code, and wants to repeal Obama’s health care plan.

“I think Democrats must really be crapping themselves right now,” Mattera said eloquently. “Because it looks like it’s going to be a tsunami that knocks them off come midterm elections in November.”

Looking further down the road, Mattera was hesitant to predict who would emerge in 2012 as a Republican presidential candidate. While there’s no one to get excited about yet, he sees potential in U.S. Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina.

“He’s a solid Conservative, he’s been really good at what everyone is concerned about, and that’s the incredible growth of big government right now, and its fangs into our lives,” said Mattera. DeMint, he added, is also “a straight-shooter” who is “all about freedom.”

But will he—or any Republican, for that matter—be able to capture the youth vote in 2012 as Obama did in 2008? “The GOP does need to wake up, and have a concrete message to younger voters, because they did tip the scale in many elections,” Mattera, who is in his 20s, pointed out.

Reaching out to young voters can be difficult, given that, as Mattera put it, “they’re in their dorm rooms downloading porn, eating Doritos, and smoking weed.”

To which the I-Man, no spring chicken himself, said, “And that’s bad because…?”

-Julie Kanfer