Former McCain Aid: Smart Young People Don't Want to Work for a Bigoted Party

In an appearance on Bill Maher's show, former McCain 2008 campaign aid and GOP tactician Steve Schmidt offered a blistering explanation for why the GOP has a difficult time catching up with technological advancements and recruiting smart, young people who know how to politic for the 21st century: Bigotry.
Quoting Steve Schmidt:

If you look at your first guest on talking about brilliant young people in computers who understand all this stuff [and] be at the cutting edge, it's difficult to make the case to work for a political party that wants to discriminate against their friend who happens to be gay. So we have an enormous problem because of some of our issues in the Republican party that are so out of step whether its with regard to women, gays, the anti-immigrant rhetoric, and it makes it difficult to attract the best and the brightest in this space."

Schmidt, of course, was famously at odds with McCain's VP choice, Sarah Palin, in 2008, despite having helped recruit her. The icy relationship is detailed in both the book and the film "Game Change."

Source: Towleroad.