The Other McCain

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Like Ronald Reagan Said

Posted on | June 14, 2010 | 8 Comments

Remember this guy from the Doug Hoffman NY-23 campaign?

Yates Walker? Sound familiar? Perhaps you remember him from an article in the The American Spectator:

Yates Walker ate breakfast in the Blue Moon Café on Main Street in Saranac Lake, New York, on the morning of November 4, and delivered an after-action report on the battle that had just been fought in the upstate 23rd District.
“We took a CPA from 9 percent to 46 percent in two and a half weeks,” said Walker, a young veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division who had been hired 18 days earlier to work on Doug Hoffman’s congressional campaign staff. “I couldn’t be prouder.”
He fell 5,000 votes short of defeating Democrat Bill Owens, but Hoffman’s surprising surge in the closing weeks of the three-way special election in upstate New York had, in Walker’s words, turned the bespectacled accountant into “an electric symbol of conservatism.” . . .

Not bad for a last-minute deadline blitz in the Buffalo airport. And maybe if you remember Yates Walker, you also remember the first time you ever heard of filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger Jr.:

I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats

In which case you may also remember when I was a guest on Ladd’s radio show during my April visit to Huntsville, Alabama.

Perhaps, then, you may be asking yourself, whatever happened to those guys? Yates Walker became campaign manager for Rick Barber — whose campaign I covered during a February trip to Alabama — and it just so happens that Ladd Ehlinger recently produced an ad for the Barber campaign:

Which I posted Sunday night in the Hot Air Green Room, and which became an overnight viral YouTube sensation and so, when Allahpundit blogged about it today maybe you’d think . . .

Well, certainly there would be no basis for inferring that there were anything other than coincidental associations involved. These things just happen, y’know?

“You can accomplish much if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
— Ronald Reagan

Credit? Nah. Some cash might be nice, but I don’t need any credit. However, if you don’t want to give me cash, maybe you should give some to . . .

RICK BARBER FOR U.S. CONGRESS

Category: Alabama, Video

Comments

8 Responses to “Like Ronald Reagan Said”

  1. FilmLadd
    June 15th, 2010 @ 12:30 am

    All roads lead to the Rome that is Robert Stacy McCain!

  2. FilmLadd
    June 14th, 2010 @ 8:30 pm

    All roads lead to the Rome that is Robert Stacy McCain!

  3. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 15th, 2010 @ 12:39 am

    All roads lead to the Rome that is Robert Stacy McCain!

    Actually, for six years I lived in Rome.

    Rome, Georgia, that is.

  4. Robert Stacy McCain
    June 14th, 2010 @ 8:39 pm

    All roads lead to the Rome that is Robert Stacy McCain!

    Actually, for six years I lived in Rome.

    Rome, Georgia, that is.

  5. young4eyes
    June 15th, 2010 @ 3:42 am

    Awesome! Another visual aid proving that tea-baggers are a bunch of fruity nut-gobblers who like to play dress-up and make complete asses of themselves to as big an audience as they will allow.
    Yeah, most people checking this out on youtube are laughing their asses off. I hope he gets a million more hits!

  6. young4eyes
    June 14th, 2010 @ 11:42 pm

    Awesome! Another visual aid proving that tea-baggers are a bunch of fruity nut-gobblers who like to play dress-up and make complete asses of themselves to as big an audience as they will allow.
    Yeah, most people checking this out on youtube are laughing their asses off. I hope he gets a million more hits!

  7. Jeff Weimer
    June 15th, 2010 @ 3:57 am

    And yet Allahpundit still won’t directly link you. But he came close that one time. Hope springs eternal.

  8. Jeff Weimer
    June 14th, 2010 @ 11:57 pm

    And yet Allahpundit still won’t directly link you. But he came close that one time. Hope springs eternal.