[joe fonebone]

If they did this in Michigan, the state GOP would ostrasize them, and revoke any ties to the party. They have done this before in Michigan to the kids that had an affirmative action bake sale.

[tumblindice]

"If they did this in Michigan, the state GOP would ostrasize them, and revoke any ties to the party."

Young Conservatives of Texas - University of Texas Chapter:

They're conservatives, not Republicans.
Big difference.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

That's really a shame.

Conservatism's greatest weakness is that it is intellectually, not emotionally, based. Thus it takes reason, logic, and the citation of history and facts and figures to make a point. It is twice as difficult to make and have accepted a conservative point as it is a liberal point, which requires merely an appeal to the emotions. Thus conservatives tend to come across as cold and unfeeling and have difficulty making a succinct point in today's soundbite media, whereas liberals can utter a feeling-based untruth in a couple of seconds and have it resonate throughout the populace (e.g., tax cuts for the rich hurt the poor).

The wit these young conservatives utilize one technique that combines both reason and the emotion and thus appeals to both conservatives and liberal: humor. This is one reason why Rush L. has been so successful.

For the Republican party to ostracize a group of people for using satire, they are cutting off their nose to spite their face and eliminating one of the very few tools they have to promote conservative. But then again, I'd suspect that those Republicans that are doing the ostracizing you mention are RINOs and not conservatives.