DeWine:My five minuets with the Senator;and why I will not support him for re-election.

face-to-face | 4/09/06 | Thomas G. Herrick

[Gill]

Last night I attended the Geauga County,Ohio,GOP annual Lincoln day dinner.Senator Mike DeWine was the key-note speaker.At the VIP hour prior to dinner,I had the opportunity to get five minuets of face time with the senator,whom I have supported in past elections.I have recently had second thoughts about supporting the senator,primarilly because of his independent positions on several positions,ie,capital gains and death taxes,and drilling in ANWAR.Now this was supposed to be a festive occasion celebrating the great President Lincoln,so I was not too rough with my questions. However,I asked the senator why he voted against ANWAR drilling,when about 55 GOP senators,including the two from Alaska,were firmly in favor? He jumped on me in a very defensive manner and asked"what about all the other good things he had supported?He accused me of being a one issue voter and stated that he could retire without regrets,and did not need my vote!"After dinner,during his speech,all he did was promote himself by listing all his grand achievements,especially getting two conservative Supreme Court Justices confirmed!! This was to be a tribute to the great Abe Lincoln not a fest for Mike DeWine.I would have been less turned off by DeWine if only he had had a simple conversation regarding a very simple question I asked him.Instead,he practically ranted when I challanged him and accused me of not letting him speak!! I do not want to lose the senate majority,but I find it very difficult to support Senator Dewine.

[dynamite98]

WILLIAM (BILL PIERCE)

PIERCEFORSENATE.COM

I'm suprised his name hasn't been mentioned yet. He's the sure anti-DeWine vote. DeRino isn't polling well and Pierce has been successful at getting endorsements while DeWine is accumulating snubs from counties.

[Old_Mil]

He is hundreds of thousands of times better than having Gray Davis in, tho, and those were the choices.

Here's something to think about: liberal policies, when seen in their undiluted form, are so bad that people wake up and come back to truly conservative ideals before enough time passes to irrepairably damage the country. Jimmy Carter's four years were an example. On the other hand, quasi-liberal policies fail slowly until a couple of decades down the line the nation is lost and it's people ask themselves, "how in the world did we get here?"

It's important to vote in a way that is right for America, not in one that is "less wrong."

[kesg]

I'm from Texas, and know very little about Ohio politics. This seems to be the right approach. Support the best candidate in the primaries. But if DeWine survives, warts and all, he is bound to be better than Sherrod Brown. The two best reasons to support DeWine over Brown are now sitting on the United States Supreme Court.