Michael Tomasky's BlogShe sounds perfect to meIt seems that the national Young Republicans group is convened in Indianapolis, preparing for tomorrow's big vote on the group's next leader. It further seems that the front-runner is one Audra Shay, a 38-year-old (young? There's hope for me!) Louisianan.
Via Gawker, see that Audra has quite a knack for the witticism. One shimmering example:
The story, as of Monday: a Facebook friend of Audra commented, "obama bin lauden is the new terrorist....muslim is on there side .....need to take this country back from all these mad coons.......and illegals." And Audra responded: "You tell em Eric! lol."
Audra unfriended some people who complained about her reaction, but not racist Eric himself.
At the Daily Beast, John Avlon has a good deal more. Here's one worthy of Swift or Wilde, I'm sure you'll agree:
In October 2008, in the wake of news that an effigy of Sarah Palin was being hung outside an affluent Hollywood home as an offensive Halloween decoration, Shay replied, returning to the "LOL" style that she employed after the "coons" comment: "What no 'Obama in a noose? Come on now, its just freedome (sic) of speech, no one in Atlanta would take that wrong! Lol."
As you might expect, a woman of such rare gifts of drollery is also a consummate master of the language. Here's a riposte she fired off to a Facebook dissenter:
"I think that you are ignorant if you believe this man is anything but anti american. He freely rights (sic) about Marxist philosophies. I never called him a terrorist, but if his policies are socialist (which they are) then what would you call him? His actions speak very loudly and his actions are very anti american. You just can not get past it. You might not like it but the truth is what it is."
You get the picture. Avlon reports that Shay appears to have already locked in the support of more than enough delegates needed to win the post. There is a rump movement hoping to push her out of the race or defeat her, but that group is evidently facing challenges:
At least one state delegation has called for Shay's resignation from the race, but ugly anonymous emails about her chief rival's support for same-sex civil unions have been circulated online to stem the tide (no word on how this jibes in young conservatives' eyes with Dick Cheney's support of gay marriage).
So this will be worth watching. Frankly, I don't see the controversy. Sounds to me as if she represents modern conservative values magnificently and she's perfect to head the Young Republicans. In fact I hereby endorse her! All the way with Shay.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2009/jul/10/audra-shay-young-republicans
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