White supremacist elected to lead Young Republicans

Meet Audra Shay, the new national leader of the Young Republicans.

As the GOP is a dying party, the Young Republicans aren't so young. Shay is older than I am, and I'm considered Methuselah by Green Party standards.

The Young Republicans aren't so tolerant either. Shay was chosen as the group's leader even after a recent racist episode on her Facebook page.

After some other Republican posted a racist comment, Shay replied, "You tell em Eric! lol."

When someone makes a racist comment online or in person, my natural response is to cringe and drip sweat. If I say anything at all, it's certainly not in praise of the person making the remark. The Republican Right though must be different. They not only view racist comments as acceptable, but actually agree with them outright.

Someone criticized Shay for praising the racist remark, saying, "I'm usually outnumbered about 500-to-1 on Audra's threads so go ahead, lemme have it, I deserve it." In other words, this commenter knew the Young Republicans were racist and that they would defend Shay.

It turned out that Audra Shay had a history of racially charged or just plain hateful comments online.

I'm sure this helped her get elected as the Young Republicans' leader. The GOP today has so little to go on that the only way they can win is to set themselves up for trouble and paint themselves as victims of the big, mean "libs."

The Republicans have become scared of new ideas, and they don't even realize just how far removed from reality they've become.

(Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-11/young-gop-chooses-hate/?cid=bsa:mostpopular3)