Young Americans have become so profoundly alienated from Republican ideals on issues including the war in Iraq, global warming, same-sex marriage and illegal immigration that their defections suggest a political setback that could haunt Republicans "for many generations to come," the poll said.That's the same Democracy Corps poll about which I've written before, when I called the GOP the political equivalent of the WaMu bankers' pen, which is what makes this bit from the new Chronicle article particularly amusing:
Catherine Brinkman, 28, of Foster City, who heads the California Young Republicans, said she hears from many of her Republican friends who say, " 'Look at our (presidential) candidates compared to the Democrats: They have Hillary, everyone knows her ... and you have this phenomenal (senator) out of Chicago, who is African American and energized.' "That's not just a "perception," honey.
The perception is that "we're still selling the same old white guys," Brinkman said.
The only difference between this picture:
and this one:
is a velvet rope.
Which itself happens to be more substantive and less divisive than anything else in the current Republican Party platform, but that's a whole other problem.
