College Repubs support buying "Made In China" products -- but don't want the public to know about it

[brentspeak]

The following is an amusing conservative blog exchange which occured between two College Republicans in September, 2005. Apparently, a controversy flared when the College Republicans distributed to its state chapters boxes of red, white, and blue beer bottle openers to hand out to potential recruits as trinkets -- red, white, and blue bottle openers that were marked "MADE IN CHINA".

http://www.savethegop.com/archives/2005/09/23/crnc-scandals-begin-again/#comments

9 Comments Add your own
1. Mike | September 23rd, 2005 at 10:13 am

What “made in China” fiasco? Explain?
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2. True Conservative | September 23rd, 2005 at 10:19 am

The silly beer bottle openers we gave out are made in China.
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3. Mike | September 23rd, 2005 at 10:32 am

So what? It would have been crimminal to purchase American made openers at a higher price. Look at your clothes right now, at least one item was made in China/Vietnam. Conservatives need to get their ducks in a row when it comes to globalization. The surest way to cripple this great country is to abandon free market principles.
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4. Mark Harris | September 23rd, 2005 at 10:40 am

Mike, this isn’t a “free market” argument this is a public relations argument. The same reason why the no Republican, no matter how conservative, would ever use a Chinese manufacturer for their bumper stickers, or whatever. It looks bad.
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5. Mike | September 23rd, 2005 at 10:53 am

Because? I just don’t see the problem, either you support the free market concept that built this nation or your don’t.
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6. Mark Harris | September 23rd, 2005 at 11:16 am

Buying american is a good pr decision for campaigns and political operations and has nothing to do with ones support of free trade.
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7. Mike | September 24th, 2005 at 9:54 am

Yeah I hear where you are coming from, but pr be damned. It is my dues that go into those products and I would hope they are bought as cheaply as possible.

These comments were actually in response to a blog article which discussed how the state chair of the Virginia College Republicans forged documents that helped elect the latest national CR leader, Paul Gourley, to his post. (Gourley was one of the College Republican slimeballs behind a direct-mail swindling of elderly people across the country, but that's a whole other story).

[tanyev]

1. Silly. All they had to do was take a tip from the Bush pr team

for one of his photo ops. Just put Made in the USA stickers OVER the Made in China stickers. Problem solved. And it's not "crimminal", not if you're a Republican. IOKIYAR.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Jerks

Pro-globalization because it is good for the US economy, when it puts US citizens out of work? HA!

[The Anti-Neo Con]

3. Supporting the enemy!

Yes, they're real patriots.:crazy:

I suppose next they're going to give out toy guns to kids on X-mas with the label "Made by Al-Qaida."