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.
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.
Bennett sounds like a stand-up guy.
Troublesome for the Taft Regime, but as far as I can tell, not exactly a problem for soon-to-be Governor Blackwell.
He sould be thankful he was pushed to the outside, because right now, he's the only one with an inside track to win the primary.
Oh, and Mr. Petro - your Uber-ID card is a joke.
Instead of creating laws to punish agencies and coprorations that don't protect the identities of their consumers/customers, you create an intense ID card for victims? You're an a$$.
Blackwell Ping! He's the one man that can save the Ohio GOP IMHO.
Bennett is part of the problem. He's been using heavy-handed tactics to support RINO's like DeWine, Voinovich, Davidson, and especially Taft, for many years. We supposedly control all of Ohio's government, yet all we get out of it are higher taxes, higher spending, and major ethical problems. Isn't this what we hated about Bill and Hillary Clinton?
Ohio is getting beyond hope. Heck, Free Republic is nearly as bad. Look at how many so-called Freepers backed Jean Schmidt for Congress. Of the 4 main contenders, she had by far and away the worst record on taxes of any of them, yet she got their vote.
In the most conservative district in Ohio, Republicans nominated a tax-and-spender. On the supposedly premier conservative website in the country, a good half-dozen "Freepers" voted for a tax-and-spend Republican over a real conservative who voted against all those tax increases and was very socially conservative too.
If Republicans in a conservative district won't nominate a conservative, and so-called Freepers support a woman who's record on taxes is similar to Bill Clinton's, who *can* we expect to stand up for conservative principles?
"Interesting comments about DeWine and Voinovich."
Has anyone said anything specific about attacking DeWine in the primary? Though I'm not from Ohio, I would support such an effort.
Ken Blackwell for Governor