"Ass of the Week" Elected Young Rethug Chair

Former (and still champion) "Ass of the Week" Audra Shay has been elected chair of the "Young" Republicans by a vote of 470-415. The small-bore racist's election was characterized as resulting from "sexual innuendo" against her 20-something rival, Rachel Hoff, "intimidation," and "near fist-fights" on the floor of the convention.

While one delegate said Shay's election would "set the party back 30 years," we would like to introduce a little reality into this spectacle. We have long called the Republican Party the "Rethugs" for good reason. The party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower was captured years ago, lock- stock- and barrel by the most extremist right-wing fringe -- exclusive of the Aryan Nation/ White Power movement. Now we're not so sure there's a line distinguishing them from each other.

They're know-nothing, "no"-everything thugs. Period. End of story.

Ass of the Week

Yes, we have another racist Rethug "Ass of the Week" to give you. This dubious distinction is given to Rethugs who expose themselves as common racist thugs. It's a career in itself, in other words.

Courtesy of The Daily Beast, this week's winner (so far!) is Audra Shay, lead candidate for "Young" Republicans (Shay's 38, which does qualify her as young in the Rethug base demographic). Shay, whose candidacy is supported by her homestate's Gov. Bobby "Kenneth" Jindal, commented favorably on a Facebook "friend's" remark about the "...need to take this country back from all these mad coons and illegals." When a few other "friends" commented negatively about the racist remark, Shay de-friended them, not the racist who made the "coon" comment! Good ol' Rethug values, y'all!

(Photo: "Young" - heh heh - Rethug Audra Shay)