You have GOT to be KIDDING me...

I'm pretty sure when the other side is trying to tap into a pop tween idol to get kids motivated to vote in these elections that you have lost, on so many levels I don't know where to begin. This article, swear to God, is from Politico. But if you had shown this to me I would have guessed it was from the Onion.

Internet-savvy types know that teen heartthrob Justin Bieber pretty much rules the web. Just last week, rumor spread that Bieber’s fan base was so active on Twitter that the microblogging website has servers dedicated just to him. Twitter didn’t confirm, but they didn’t deny it, either.


The takeaway? If you're trying to get a message to go viral, your success rate will surely be higher if you can somehow tie-in the Biebs.


So that’s just what Campus Progress, the college spinoff of the Center for American Progress, decided to do to get people to vote in the midterms.


The organization is highlighting a submission to its VoteAgain2010 video contest that argues, while Bieber can't vote in our midterms (he's both too young and too Canadian), shouldn't you?


"This isn't your standard election year video of celebrities asking you to vote," the ad says. "It's us, asking you to vote for celebrities who can't, celebrities like Justin Bieber. Bieber's too young to vote, yet whomever we elect in the 2010 midterm elections will impact his future and ours. ... So tell your parents, your grandparents, your Facebook friends ... If they won't do it for you, ask them to do it for Bieber." (Click below to watch.)
ED: Try not to laugh too hard, but they are trying to be serious here... I think...


"We're trying to leverage Bieber fever," Campus Progress's Sara Haile-Mariam told POLITICO. "Most of his fans are 12 years old – we acknowledge that." Still, they hope that Bieber fans will “tell their parents. ... The hope is to create something that goes viral and gets young people to be aware of the election."


Of course, Haile-Mariam admits that part of the motivation was less purely political. "We consider ourselves big Bieber fans," she confessed, adding that they hope Bieber will give some link love to


their project via his Twitter page (and his over 5 million followers).


But what if — gasp! — Bieber could vote and choose to vote ... Republican?!? How would that sit with the progressive group?


"That would actually be kind of hilarious," said Campus Progress's Katie Andriulli.


"We would still love Bieber if he was a conservative," said Haile-Mariam. "But he's young...there's still hope."

Sometimes you just have to laugh, otherwise you would cry, here are some of the gem comments...

So kids that CAN vote should because Bieber can't? Is that the pitch? So, a college freshman should vote because this high school freshman can't? Whoa, are kids today really stupid enough to fall for that lame attempt? Usually, by age 18, kids today, even kids educated in our public schools are smarter than that.


Only an idiot would vote for someone because their 12 year old told them to. "Do it for Bieber." No, make that an imbecile.


Exploiting the underaged for political gain. Sounds like the perfect strategy for the Democrats being as how no intelligent voter (read: 18 and up) would ever pay attention to this person and the only segment of the population stupid enough to care are 12-14 year old girls. Oh wait, another bio talent celebrity bring marketed into a position of super-stardom, and loved only by those who don't pay taxes and live off their parents. Priceless.

Desparation takes many forms...

So let me understand this... the Democrats want teenagers (who yet to have a clue about anything IMPORTANT) to tell their parents what to do and how to vote because of some kid named Justin Bieber, a 16 year old Canadian singing sensation, who owns and drives a $250K Lamborghini Roadster and makes millions of dollars? Is the person they want to YOU to connect with? I thought the Democrats (the President in particular) have been telling us that rich people suck, and that the little people are the ones who matter most? It's a bizarre gasp on the DNC's part. People don't care about Justin Bieber, but what they care about is how the taxes they pay keep going up (Federally, State wide and locally) and they are seeing less and less for their contributions. The bottom 40 million tax payers get all their money back and don't pay taxes, so I guess this Administration is now panicked and needs to pick up a Canadian spokesperson because among the 280 million Americans they can't find someone else. How incredibly desperate.