republican house majority leader eric cantor turns 50 on thursday. happy birthday congressman, all best wishes. awkward thing here, though, is this. mr. cantor and kevin mccarthy and paul ryan back in 2007, they decided to embrace a nickname given to them by the weekly standard magazine, the young guns. it's 2007, these guys are young and totally with it. republicans are young and they're so young and vital. but then, you know, life happens, nobody stays young forever. and at a certain point, a nickname like young guns starts to feel like false advertising. you could change it to something like middle aged but holding up okay guns. another awkward thing here, though, is the original young guns were all guys. in trying to make the republican party seem less like it was all guys, the young guns tried to start a new effort last year called yg woman up. and right after they started that, they released their slate of endorsed candidates for congress in 2012 which actually had fewer proportionally fewer