The College Republicans Yellow Elephants had their gathering and elected a new leader. His name is Paul Gourley, and he has apparently angered some of the other pusillanimous pachyderms by employing tried-and-true Rovian tactics.

In other words, cheating, lying, and fraud.

The post by Alexander Brunk, at Save the GOP starts out like so:

To Paul Gourley, Britton Alexander, Annie Kelly, and all the rest of you on your victory. You have proven that corruption, bribery, blackmail, and outright fraud can win an election. You have done all you have to win for no reason other than to benefit yourselves. And you have done it while violating all the tenents of conservatism which you claim to uphold.

I am ashamed to have ever been associated with any of you, and to know that all the time and effort for four years that I put into the College Republicans has culminated with this.

I’d correct Mr. Brunk, though. Gourley et al have proven nothing, they’ve merely learned well from the Nixon and Bush 43 administrations. I’d also laugh at Mr. Brunk’s naïveté — who did you think you had signed up with, the Boy Scouts?

The “money shot” of this post comes in a comment way down-thread from Chuck Colson. Of course, there’s no way to positively ID the commentor as the Chuck Colson of Watergate fame, but to me it doesn’t matter, because he speaks the truth, and truth doesn’t need an ID. [Hat tip to Jesus’ General]

Hey all you losers who don’t like Gourley let me clue you in. We are Republicans, we play hardball, sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do to win. People have made a lot [of] sacrifices to get this party where where we are today. We stand on their shoulders. Guys like Don Segretti who went to prison in 1974 for ratfucking Democrats. You know what he did? Among other things he faked a press release on Muskie’s letterhead saying Scoop Jackson had a kid with a 17 year old girl. You think it was easy manuevering the Dems to nominate McGovern in 1972? Hell no! What exactly do you think Watergate was all about?

Guys like Jim Tobin who might take the rap for jamming NH Dem party phonelines on election day in 2002. Without him Sununu would be twiddlin his thumbs and we might not hold the Senate today!

If you guys think you’re getting to the White House without guys willing to go to the Big House and keep their big mouths shut you’re sadly mistaken.

So either get with the program or take your pansyass ideals to some other party. You pukes make me sick.

…Look… we’re just not that inclusive to win elections your way.

Look at Dem advantages among minorities. We’re never gonna overcome that because our base depends on us to keep those minorities in their place. And those minority populations are growing like rabbits. It’s what the whole “Southern Strategy” is about. Do you think Nixon would have been elected twice without appealing to racism? Law and Order president meant putting down riots with force. Think Reagan would have gotten elected without making up the story about welfare queens who drive Cadillacs? Why do you think he got Reagan Democrats to vote for him? It wasn’t because Joe Sixpack thought a $200 taxcut was such a great deal, it was because Reagan didn’t like black folks any better than Joe did. So c’mon give the ethics crap a break.

Without Ken Blackwell suppressing the minority vote in OH last year and Katherine Harris and Jeb himself doing yeoman dirty work in FL in 2000 Dubya would still be in Austin.

You only get so many chances in this business kid. Ya gotta pull out all the stops when the opportunity presents itself. You gotta know who your friends and your enemies are. And for your friends you gotta be willing to do whatever it takes to fuck your enemies even if it means going to jail. I did and for Nixon I’d do it again.

Now that I re-read it, I figure it can’t really be Colson. Too transparent, too honest.