You all know the type. You may have gone to college with them. They listen to "Howard Stern," maybe watch South Park, have a unique appreciation for politically incorrect humor. They don't much care for taxes, but they're not particularly religious either. Maybe they listen to Emimem, but they may also like new school country, and classic rock. They like their movies gory, with a little bit of tits and ass here and there. They're probably white, they like making money, they like sex, and they're probably under the age of forty but over the age of twenty. They are I think in many ways the mainstream of my generation, which is to say generation "X". Those who were old enough to vote in the 80s (if they did in fact vote) probably voted for Reagan, and then George Bush Sr, but almost exclusively on economic grounds, and because they thought Democrats were wussies. They also may have voted for Bill Clinton, but only if they were convinced that he wasn't a wuss. They tend to be, in a word libertarian, and I have little doubt that there is far more fertile ground for Democratic recruitment among them now than among their older counterparts, "Nascar dads." "Howard Stern Republicans" or (if you prefer) "South Park Republicans" (the latter is actually a term I've seen elsewhere) may like the macho cowboy swagger of George W Bush, but they no doubt find his pandering to the religious right chilling and every bit as offensive as left-wing political correctness. The smartest ones, like their spiritual mentor Mr. Stern himself, see in Stern's suspension yesterday by Clear Channel a path that leads through the Bible Belt and up Pennsylvania Avenue. Now that the Republican Party has clearly signalled that it tends for it's cultural demagoguery to be more than rhetoric, this demographic can I believe be courted. Stern himself has announced that he intends to vote for John Kerry.