Our first official Unknown Tipster

There was the unknown comic. Probably best that he stayed unknown. Now, for the first time I have received news from an ‘unknown’ source about the 4th Congressional District race in Ohio. It was a tip off on an Washington Times piece that featured Nathan Martin who is running on a conservative “support the troops” platform. He is a true conservative and a pleasure to know. As the race boils down in the final weeks I see only two real conservatives in the race… Nathan Martin and Jim Jordan.

Nathan made news because he said “no thanks” to a veterans group who offered contributions but hold a “bring the troops home” position.

One of the PAC’s endorsement criteria found on its Web site is that candidates “?? emand from the administration a victory strategy for Iraq that includes hard success metrics which trigger American troop drawdowns so our forces can safely re-deploy from theater.”

Nathan lost out on $100,000 plus other items in the turn down process.

“They asked me to sit and think about it for 24 hours, and I couldn’t even do that, so I called them back that night and told them I could not sacrifice my principles for the money,” Mr. Martin said.

My first thought was that he should have taken the money with the knowledge that his position is contrary to theirs and that would be his official stand. But knowing the strings were there… it was best to leave it alone. A gutsy conservative move will earn points with conservatives. Will it win him votes? Unfortunately in the culture today it may not have the impact it once did. But that wasn’t the point was it.

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