People like him succeed by telling candidates that it's alright to waste campaign resources PAYING for things like people to handle the nuts and bolts portion of any effective campaign; lit distribution and phone banks, when you had a pool of volunteers at the ready to do that for you at no cost whatsoever.

Driving away a large pool of potential donors is also a sure-fire way to hand the race over to the democrats.

The first part of that article should also make anyone who considers themselves a true conservative blood boil when anyone from the Marx/Engles-wing of the democratic party makes this glowing statement about them in public:

"Governor, I'm kind of looking to framing this with the picture of my dad when Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act," U.S. Rep. John Dingell told Snyder on Monday at a Medicaid bill-signing ceremony at a Dearborn hospital. "Because it's going to rank with that and with that day."