Worshipping at the First Church of Siler...

So, as I sit here waiting for polls to open and last-minute GOTV efforts to get underway in Ohio, I had to check out the witty, academic banter that is the Comments section on CRNC Chatter. Evidently, with all that has been going on over the weekend, people can still find time to trash their favorite College Republicans. Evidently, I am now Brian Siler, even though the last time I checked, my driver's license said something completely different. Evidently, I worship Brian Siler and would enjoy nothing more than an exclusive relationship with him, which was news to my girlfriend to be sure. The worship thing was also news to me, since I actively campaigned against the kid during April's OCRF elections. Evidently correcting false statements and outright slanderous lies about someone is no longer the right thing to do; it is actually looked down upon in CR circles. Evidently, if someone is a "newbie" in the game, a supposed lightweight, you must spend days and days discounting them and their presence. And in absence of a logical argument, why not just call everyone a homosexual? Makes quite a bit of sense, right? I have seen better and more comprehensive arguments from a second grade debate squad (or the Democratic Party). Because if you don't agree 100% with Chairman Gourley, or whoever the leading Opposition figure is that day, you are a subversive scoundrel who just wants to bring down the CRNC. Right. And why attach your name to slanderous posts when you can bask in the anonymity that Al Gore's Internet offers us? That is what I like to call courage and bravery.
What really gets me though, beyond all of the lies and muckraking, is the complete intellectual bankruptcy of these kids. When you don't have any competitive new ideas, slander is the second best option these days. Because where did ideas and innovation ever get Americans or Republicans? Obviously this little rant is not a shining example of good composition, as I am working on very limited sleep at this point in the 72-hour period, but I am truly irked by it all. I have to ask though, how in the heck did anyone have time to post during the PM hours this past weekend? You anonymous kids make claims that Ohio is a terrible state fed. and that Brian Siler is a worthless hack (to parapahrase just about every comment made about him), but why are you not out making phone calls and knocking on doors? If you want to see proof of hard work being done by Ohio's CRs, look no further than the Steve Chabot re-election campaign in OH-1. Bowling Green, Toledo, Bluffton, Heidelberg, and Owens CC loaded up a bus full of their CRs on Sunday, drove 3 and a half hours to Cincinnati, and walked precincts totaling over 7,000 targeted voters. The actual figures of doors knocked are much higher yet, because these CRs went above and beyond and knocked on EVERY SINGLE DOOR IN THESE PRECINCTS! And the list can go on and on and on, with the achievements of great CR chapters at Miami, Ohio State, Xavier, Akron, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville, Cincinnati, Capital, Columbus State, Dayton, Cedarville, Wright State, Ohio U., and countless others. This is not to say other states aren't pulling their weight, or that Ohio is better than others, but simply to point out that there are more important things to be doing come 3:47 PM on the Saturday before a national election. But hey, you all obviously have your priorities in line.