College Republicans Irked by the Threat of Original Thought

It must be difficult for the GOP these days. On one hand, they want to continue to appeal to Bible-thumping, teabagging, gun-toting bigots, but on the other, they also want to extend their congregation beyond the high school drop-outs and the plantation owners. This level of re-branding is hard enough to do without the family of one of their most recognizable Senators breaking ranks with the party on one of their core issues.

Senator John McCain's wife, Cindy, recently posed for a website promoting the NoH8 Campaign. I was admittedly quite shocked when I saw an article about it on CNN.com - I don't know how a prune like Sen. McCain managed to land such a looker of a wife.

At any rate, McCain's daughter, Meghan, is scheduled to speak at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The GW College Republicans were at first excited by the news; they were under the impression that Meghan McCain was going to speak about “Redefining Republican: No Labels, No Boxes, No Stereotypes.”

Unfortunately, what these budding young Republicans were not expecting was that Ms. McCain's speech would occur during the college's LGBT rights group's “Marriage Equality Week,” and that the unusually open-minded young Republican may use the platform to express her own refreshingly positive views on gay marriage.

Threatened by the concept of a Republican with thoughts of her own, the GW College Republicans quickly withdrew their funding from Ms. McCain's speaking engagement, which will carry on regardless.

I guess we got a little too close to talking about “no labels, no boxes, no stereotypes” and actually meaning something by it.