Paul Gourley! Congratulations to the Gourley/Beeson team. From my experience working with the CRNC, I know that the entire team they assembled are full of solid people, particularly Paul and Jess, Tom Robins and Nat Harding. I know they’ll do a great job keeping the CR membership up and taking on new challenges.
I also give credit to the Davidson team – I don’t know them as well, but from the people I have talked to over the past few months that worked on this campaign, they are also proven leaders. The two campaigns clashed over ideas and leadership, and well… that’s politics (even at this level!) But, they all are solidly conservative (no RINO’s here!) and that’s not where they clashed. Each team just has different ideas of how to better recruit, retain, and activate the over 100,000 College Republicans around the nation. After the success of the past several years under Eric Hoplin, and following a vigorous campaign to re-elect President Bush and many other Republican leaders, the CR’s nationwide decided they didn’t need a major change, and stuck with the “insiders”.
Now that the election is over… all CR’s need to engage in the battle of ideas on college campuses, and remember who the real enemy is: Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, the Democrat Party, and all those looney Leftists. Time to work hard to make a difference.