Meet Johnny Boehner's 2014 Primary Challenger- Ohio Entrepreneur ERIC GURR

Lifelong Ohioan Eric Gurr -a 48-y.o. student of history who's campaigning as a 'Conservative Republican'- was born and raised in Hamilton, Ohio. He attended the University of Cincinnati, has been registered as Republican his entire adult life, and is currently the CEO of Best and Brightest inc. a computer consulting firm based in West Chester, Ohio.

He's married and has three children and two grandchildren, who all reside in Liberty Township. Ohio. Amusingly, Eric is a second cousin to
George Washington. (9x removed)...

And check him out on the issues: he's pro-life, anti-Obamacare, and against unhelpful foreign entanglements like Libya and Syria. And he's definitely no fan of Barack Obama.

As he told the Examiner,

"What prompted me to run was the realization that since 2008 Mr. Boehner had slowly pulled away from my views and what I thought was in the best interest of the nation long-term.

I was not in favor of the TARP programs and I still think our monetary policy is on the wrong track.

Syria was the tipping point. I thought that war with Syria was a terrible idea. Essentially it is a very high-risk proposition with little or nothing to be gained.

I also believe strongly that the immigration bill was a bad bill at the wrong time. It makes no sense at all to add to a workforce burdened by high unemployment and underemployment.

When I started putting all of these things together I realized that Speaker Boehner has just been in Washington too long. Publicly elected servants should serve a few terms and then leave lest they become forever detached from their constituents. Over time this leads to a moderation not only in positions and policy, but in passion for the fight. Inside that beltway, conservative values (both economically and socially) are seen as "extreme."

We as the base of the GOP have no desire nor need to apologize for these conservative principles as they have served the nation quite well for over 200 years."

Greetings from one of your southern neighbors here in Kentucky. I wish you the best in your efforts to replace Boehner. We are, similarly, in the process of trying to oust McConnell from the senate and replace him with Matt Bevin. The republican party needs to shed itself of these RINOs. Good luck. I’ll be pulling for you.

IMHO we’ll get Lindsey Graham in a runoff- three challengers already. Multiple conservatives running is actually good in the runoff states, but the others we need to back a single challenger, as in the case of Boehner

I think runoffs originated in the South as a means to make it more difficult for blacks, liberals, or carpetbaggers to win elections. But runoffs now serve a great function of ensuring that the eventual winner will be the choice of a larger percentage of the voters than one vote with no runoff if no one receives a majority.

Maybe primary voters who oppose Boner will settle on one candidate before election day in Ohio. But the place runoffs are most needed is in presidential primaries. We usually have a ‘winner’ no more than halfway throught the state primaries, a winner who received around 1/3 of the total vote. And with four or five conservative candidates and a couple of RINOS, we end up with the RINO.

But that won’t change since it benefits the GOPe so much and gives us candidates like McCain and Romney.

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