The New Ice Age of the Young Republicans

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via HuffPost:





Michael Rowe
Award-winning journalist and author of Other Men's Sons
Posted: July 12, 2009

The New Ice Age of the Young Republicans




The election of 38-year old Audra Shay of Louisiana to the chairmanship of the Young Republican National Federation on Saturday, in Indianapolis, might have gone practically unnoticed, had it not been for revelations by John Avlon, writing in The Daily Beast, that Shay had tacitly endorsed a virulently racist post about U.S. President Barack Obama on her Facebook page.

In response to one of her Facebook friends, Eric S. Piker asserting

"Obama Bin Lauden (sic) is the new terrorist...Muslim is on there (side)...need to take this country back from all these mad coons...and illegals,"

Shay posted back,

"You tell em Eric! lol."

When two of her other friends--including Sean L. Conner, chairman of the D.C. Young Republicans--complained about the racist language on Shay's Facebook thread, Shay responded, not by unfriending the author of the "mad coon" comment, but by unfriending the two who complained.

In his two articles, Avlon reveals a disturbing pattern of similar viewpoints expressed by Shay in previous Facebook posts, larded with misspellings, and with syntax that would embarrass a marginally-educated 16-year old, including one from October 2008 where she employs a lynching motif, suggesting "Obama in a noose" as a Halloween decoration, defending it as "freedome (sic) of speech," and that "no one in Atlanta would mind." ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/the-new-ice-age-of-the-yo_b_230125.html

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1. This is an eloquent call for more bipartisanship.

:sarcasm: