Posted on 06/17/2005 3:49:21 PM PDT by Columbus Dawg
Interesting comments about DeWine and Voinovich.
Anyway we could get an Ohio Ping on this one?
BTW, I'd like to be put on the Ohio Ping list if that is possible. Thanks.
I don't know him except for his family name, but I gather that Bob Taft is not exactly a winner either.
Bush managed to win Ohio, but this junk doesn't help.
"There are a few people in our party who have abused their trust," Bennett said.
Starting with that blubbering fool Voinovich.
It's not enough to say we won't contribute to the Party but will contribute only to candidates we support. We must do more to get a good candidate to oppose DeWine in the 2006 Republican party.
My immediate choice would be John Boehner, currently in the House. However, I have no idea of his plans.
I'm backing Blackwell for Governor. Montgomery would be a disaster, and I don't think Petro would be as good as Blackwell on the issues important to me: abortion, gun ownership, and taxes.
Very interesting. they are usually not this open.
The solution, of course, is to get the corrupt out of the Party. Replace them with good conservatives. get behind Blackwell and ditch deWine.
I'd like to see Blackwell prevail, so, though it won't be much, I'll contribute.
Taft might be a good guy, but he is no leader.
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as long as he is Pro American and defends the US Constitution that's leadership enough and a great deal more than we have been getting from either New World Order Politicians!! Get the Wimps Voinavich an DeWine Out and put some strong AMERICANS --- IN!!
This is a trend that could go national.
In Ohio, you've got two Senators who won't hold the line on nominations.
Out West, you have private citizens trying to hold back the illegal immigrant tide, while the Administration tells the Border Patrol to stand down in areas the Minutemen patrol!
In the Senate, you have a handful of Senators derail the President's full slate of judicial nominees, but you don't see the Republican leadership nullifying the deal and pressing ahead with the nuclear option.
And after talking a good game, Republican state legislators backed away from Terri Schiavo, a Republican governor did not intervene, the Republican Congress did not enforce contempt of Congress penalties against officials who openly violated Congressional subpoenas, the Republican President said he had done all he could, the Republican Attorney General went on vacation, and Republican judges from the trial judge up to the Supreme Court all enforced their death sentence against the woman.
Meanwhile, martial law still hasn't been declared in rebellious parts of Iraq.
This is all stacking up to be a bad year for Republicans, and it just makes you sick because none of this weakness and vacillation is necessary at all.
"As much as $10 million in coins owned by the state are now missing."
As well as $250 million from the worker's comp fund invested into a "hedge fund" managed by some political cronies.
"When looking at Dems, I got to give it to them they march the line or will find being cut off from funds and find a powerful opponent at the next election."
Bill and Hillary could teach a few lessons to our party in this regard.
Does anybody really believe that prominent Democratic politicians actually like Hillary, and that's why they'll be supporting her in 2008? Or might it be that they need $$$ from her and her husband, and they're afraid of what might be in her FBI files?
I don't know what corner of the state you live in, but from my viewpoint, Cato Institute is right--Taft is the worst governor in the nation. Robert Taft is NOT a "good guy." He is a corrupt big government high-tax liar who dishonestly ran on a no tax-hike platform in '02. Arrogance personified.
Bob Bennett needs to have a heavy metal enema to help reposition his head, if he can't see the future of the party in Ohio resides with Ken Blackwell. Petro is a nobody masquerading as a Bob Dole somebody. Montgomery is the last decade's mystery guest.
Ohio GOP needs serious chemotherapy, radiation, and maybe radical surgery at the top.
Yeah, and Chirac is at what...23%. Europe is doing so much better. </sarc
Aint it hell that Jeb would not break the law.
Aint it hell that Jeb would not break the law. And in the Senate it takes votes.Frist didnt have enough.
Bennett is not referring to DeWine or Voinovich as the legislators that have abused their trust.
He is more than likely referring to former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and his goons (The same people who wrote the infamous 109-page memo to destroy the political career of Ken Blackwell). Householder and some former aides are under federal and state investigation for possible wrongdoing. The way Bennett is talking, is it other state legislators too? There were many of the state reps who were very loyal to Householder. Some are still in the House. Some have moved on.
When he mentions stuff like "indictments could be forthcoming," (something to Cleveland Plain Dealer has corroborated and that has been whispered among many within the establishment here in Columbus) he is more than likely referring to Householder and his goons, not DeWine and Voinovich. This is something I have heard first hand from people as well.
Even though DeWine and Voinovich have angered many, myself included, they have never stooped to the levels of Larry Householder and his goons.
When I say Tom Noe and Coingate will be forgot about next year, I have an eerie feeling it will be because of this stuff. It is this stuff that I believe Bob Bennett is referring to.
Bennett sounds like a stand-up guy.
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