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Blast from the past: CRs should abandon McCain
By punch bowl | February 11, 2008
So here is to you Michael Miltenberger, Dan Carlson, Blake Harris, and Vic Bailey. It looks like selling out to the frontrunner (wow, how fast time does fly!) won you the jackpot! A piece of advice: jump ship before they send you the bill.
Jonathan Snyder at Red State Rampage, in a post titled “Congratulations to CR McCain Backers” last July, proving that much can change in politics. In light of McCain’s impending nomination, it looks like Milternberger, Carlson, Harris and Bailey have the last laugh. Good thing they didn’t jump ship, after all.
Topics: CR gossip |
February 11th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Who the hell is Jonathan Snyder? Hope he’s not looking for a job on the McCain campaign anytime soon. Ha…
February 11th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Jonathan is (was?) a College Republican at Ohio State University. As punch bowl states, Jonathan co-authors a blog named Red State Rampage.
The blog arguably had a “reform” tilt during the latest CRNC election, opposing Charlie Smith and his ticket.
The problem with Jonathan (and his blog) is that he has just enough courage to be “against” things, but he never quite finds enough courage to be “for” anything.
Two great examples are the 2007 CRNC elections and the candidacy of John McCain.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Since a friend of mine let me know I was being name-dropped at CR Nation again, I figured that I should check out what great things were being said. To put in context my comments about the CRs who were supporting McCain, my opinion was that it was at least a tad unethical to accept checks from a candidate in a primary, especially when College Republican groups generally are prohibited from endorsing any candidates in a Republican primary. Those individuals I named in the post cited above also endorsed McCain for President in the winter and spring of 2007, each using their CR title in the endorsement. In Michigan, especially, there was a rather contentious fight over the matter of the CRs being turned into a youth arm of the McCain campaign. If whole CR groups are supposed to sail even keel through the primary process, then their leaders should not take advantage of their positions and titles to hop on board. It should have been done separately from their CR positions, conducted in the manner of the many students (mostly CRs, too) who traveled to CPAC 2007 on the dime of the Mitt Romney campaign. (Do not construe that to be in jest to the current state of affairs; it is merely a good example in my present argument.) At the point of that posting, the major media had left Senator McCain’s presidential ambitions for dead long before I spoke up about it. As we all well know, a week may as well be a year in politics, and over the ensuing seven months, enough Republican voters have changed their minds in order to put Sen. McCain on the verge of locking in the nomination via the delegate count. While those former CR Federation Chairmen mentioned above may well be vindicated in their choice of candidate, it does not make their actions a year ago any less righteous. For the record, I did not write any posts bashing McCain as a candidate, or a Senator, and there was not a candidate I was openly backing in the time I was actively writing for RSR on a regular basis. In the 2007 CRNC elections, my position was to be for a candidate who never quite wanted to jump in headfirst and run for the office; I hardly see it as an example of only being against something. I penned plenty of posts in support of things, especially Ohio’s GOP Chair Bob Bennett when he was under fire following the 2006 GOP losses here, our Ohio College Republican Federation when it was under fire for things that were simply false and salacious, and in favor of various candidates here in Ohio.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:03 am
In addition, Sage also penned a post around the same time of my linked post decrying McCain’s bid for the nomination as dead.
Quote:
“How long will McCain stay in the running to save face - to prove that his stance on immigration was not a big campaign blunder? Because surely in the long run, immigration, no money, and yesterday’s resignations will kill his efforts to be president.”
Posted on July 11, 2007
I guess that the writers of CR Nation, specifically Sage and Punch Bowl, are only about standing for John McCain after he is the presumed nominee, and after Sage and other writers on CR Nation opposed him previously.
February 12th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Who is this Snyder kid and what has he ever done to warrant being talked about?
February 13th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Apparently something important enough to be referenced and ridiculed seven whole months since I finished regularly posting at my blog. I would not claim anything worthy of such attention, but apparently others think differently.