Who will be the next Chairman of the College Republican National Committee? I just arrived to the site of the CRNC national convention in Arlington, VA and you can feel the excitement, anxiety, and political fighting that is going on to elect the next chairman of the CRNC.
Karl Rove once held this position, and Rove stated that Eric Hoplin (the current chair) would go down as the “best chairman” to date because of the successful impact that the CR’s made in last year’s re-election of President Bush. Both Paul Gourley and Michael Davidson hope they will get elected and continue the Rove-Hoplin tradition of moving the conservative movement forward and rallying thousands of college students to join the Republican Party, which tends to be the central component of the campus conservative movement.
I’m down here to introduce hundreds of College Republicans from around the nation to another side of the “political” – the intellectual conservativism that grounds the movement in ideas and principles. The Republicans hold the majority in our country today – but will they continue to lead principally? Hopefully our generation can hold the movement together and lead it forward.
I’ll continue my thoughts over the weekend…