sweet! DeWine definitely got the message. Now we'll see if he wants to rejoin the team.
It may be that DeWine is such a likely loser in 2006 that nothing he does or doesn't do can salvage his seat. Like his neighbor, Santorum, he will be very hard-pressed to be reelected. DeWine, I think, would be reliably conservative, if he thought he could still be reelected in OH. But he knows OH is full of liberals and he feels that he must court as many as he can.