Young Republicans About to Elect a Racist?

Meghan McCain says so:

I woke up this morning in Las Vegas (tonight I’m playing craps and betting on red) with a slew of emails about the likely election of Audra Shay as the new head of the Young Republicans on Saturday. You can probably guess how I feel about a woman who thinks comparing President Obama to a terrorist and referring to blacks as “mad coons” is funny.
The definition of insanity is repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting different results.
The definition of insanity is repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting different results. What exactly do the Young Republicans expect to achieve by electing a 38-year-old woman who thinks racial epithets are acceptable? Also, did I mention that she’s 38? And she’s going to be the leader of an organization with the word “young” in the title? Is it so implausible that people in their twenties (or even early thirties) could join the Republican Party--or have we just completely given up on their vote? Are we expecting “young” people in the Republican Party to soon be entering their forties? Read more at the Daily Beast

Audra Shay denies she's racist.

Read her response here. I could see how it could've happened. But....

Sad to say, but when I think republican, I think bigot, hypocrite and old fashioned. I know not all republicans are bigots who practice hypocrisy by preaching family values to others while privately doing whatever they like. I know some pretty darned nice upstanding republicans. But their image as a party is not so good. They also seem to be old fashioned. I don't want to say old because it's not an age thing.  They just have old ways of thinking about things. Closed minds. No creative solutions. They don't seem concerned AT ALL about social issues, aside from fighting abortion and gay rights.

Republicans Are Not Dead Cow Meat

They're a Big Mac or a Happy Meal, says one college republican. Check out the video of young republicans facing up to reality here. Even the young ones believe Obama's marching us to socialism, which bodes well for the rest of us because that's just foolish.

McCain's Retro Foreign Policy

It's true that sometimes retro is hip, but not when it comes to McCain's foreign policy. He talks freely about chucking Russia out of the G8 and bombing Iran or sending them more cigarettes, or referring to Czechoslovakia.

NPR: John McCain often joked that when he looked into former Russian President Vladimir Putin's soul, he didn't see — as President Bush did — a man he could do business with, but rather an ex-KGB officer consolidating power.

"It's a KGB-like operation," McCain said of Putin's approach, "gradual, steady, persistent, successful."

Though Russia has a new president, Dmitry Medvedev, McCain has kept up his tough line, accusing the Russian government of silencing political dissent at home, using energy as a weapon abroad and launching a cyber war against Estonia.

McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, said in a speech in Los Angeles in March that NATO should not stand for such actions, nor should the Group of Eight.

"We should start by ensuring the G-8 — the group of eight highly industrialized states — becomes again a club of leading market democracies," McCain said. "It should include Brazil and India, but exclude Russia."

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McCain has talked about kicking Russia out of the G-8 for several years now. Susan Rice, a top foreign policy adviser to Democrat Barack Obama, says speeches like that show McCain is stuck in a Cold War mind-set, trying to demonize Russia.

"John McCain really has a static — I would even argue retro — mid-late 20th century national security orientation, which is ill suited to the challenges we face," Rice said, adding that she sees some contradictions within the McCain campaign.

That retro-ness doesn't seem to be flying with the younger generation either:

CNN: At a town hall meeting in Ohio this month, a student told McCain that Republicans were a dying breed on his campus.

"I understand the challenge I have, and I understand that this election is really all about the people of your generation," McCain said.

Many young Republicans said Sen. Barack Obama, the 46-year-old junior senator from Illinois, is inspiring voters their age, but McCain, the 71-year-old Arizona senator who has been in office since the early '80s, is not.

Eric Pearlmutter, a member of the Young Republicans at the University of Southern California, said the roaring enthusiasm that follows Obama is missing among conservatives his age.

"We try to get people out to our college Republican meetings, but ... we can't seem to draw the same kind of vocal support," he said.

And when is McCain, who is speaking right now about the dangers of smoking at the Livestrong event, going to stop saying "my friends." It's just not right.