Here's InstaPundit on when the left lost their teen spirit:

I think it happened in the 1980s, when Kitty MacKinnon and Tipper Gore decided to launch the Left's anti-sex purges. Danny Goldberg sort of agrees. He also asks the vital question: "How did we get these fucking zombies as our candidates?"

This is the second time I will have posted some of Robert Williams' art (the last time being a photo from a series called "Zombie Mystery Paintings"), and I'm just tickled pink to do so.

This one's a real gem:

It's a scan (front and rear) of a comic book I greatly treasure, for there are very few of them around. Tipper Gore irritated Robert Williams by going ballistic over this cover he did for the rock group Guns N' Roses, and demanding that he (and Guns N' Roses) be censored.

Actually, he was. Guns N' Roses eventually had to rerelease their album minus Williams' cover art:

From the start, the band was drawn to controversy. The cover of Appetite for Destruction featured a graphic, sinister Robert Williams painting depicting a rape that eventually got the album banned from major retailers. Even with a new cover, however, the album stalled upon its release. It wasn’t until MTV began playing the video for “Sweet Child O’ Mine” that Guns N’ Roses exploded into the living rooms of America’s youth. “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City” shot the band to superstardom. By the summer of 1988, Gun N’ Roses ruled the roost.

Here's some more background:

The music business was in a bad way. It was hemorraging style so quickly that even New Country was starting to look cool.

But, in L.A. there was a band that was about to come to the rescue. Little Billy "Axl" Rose, Slash, Duff McKagen, Steven Adler and Izzy Stradlin had taken the music business by storm. There had always been drug taking and swearing in rock music, it went with the territory, but GnR had elevated it to a new level. They cursed a blue streak in their live shows, on their "Live like a Suicide" EP and in interviews. Perennial silly bitch and God-girl Tipper Gore had, well and truly, got her panties in a bunch and was virulently peddling her outrage down South. She whipped up the Bible Belt into a such a frenzy that laws were passed requiring CDs to display the Parental Advisory stickers that we so love. Just as Mary Whitehouse had done with Alice Cooper, in the UK in 1972, Tipper rode GnR to prominence. Now call me cynical, (I'm waiting...) but she, and her idiot husband, were a hell of a lot more prominent after that fiasco, than before. Hmm, did someone see a bandwagon to jump on? (Tipper, a bandwagon-jumping whore? No, I can't accept that...)

You also become a zombie when the zombies catch up with you (as poor Tipper learned).

I can't find the quote, but years ago Hunter Thompson warned politicians never to piss off artists. (Oh, hell, this article (via Glenn Reynolds) makes the same point.)

They never seem to learn.....

AN ASIDE: Please bear in mind that Howard Stern was a "vocal Bush supporter" until not long ago, and they never bothered to even thank him.