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Ronald Reagan's Unlikely Heir
City Journal ^ | January 17, 2006 | Steven Malanga

Posted on 01/18/2006 1:00:31 PM PST by WaterDragon

Ohio’s Republican gubernatorial front-runner Ken Blackwell is “Jesse Jackson’s worst nightmare.”

Ken Blackwell has just finished regaling a group of Ohio retailers with his vision of how to turn around the state’s struggling economy with a heavy dose of fiscal restraint and tax cuts. The crowd, accustomed to Republicans who tax and spend as furiously as Democrats, is rapt. But as Blackwell works the room afterward, on a warm fall afternoon in Columbus, one well-dressed woman stops him to outline her concerns. “I like your ideas on taxes,” she tells the former college football star, who at 6 foot 5 towers over her imposingly, “but I don’t like your other ideas so much”—meaning Blackwell’s strong pro-life positions and support of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman....

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: blackconservatives; blackwell; conservative; kenblackwell; ohio; rinofighter
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1 posted on 01/18/2006 1:00:34 PM PST by WaterDragon
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To: WaterDragon

Dennis Prager (LA KRLA 870) spoke of Blackwell today. Blackwell sounds like a pretty good conservative, fiscal and otherwise.


2 posted on 01/18/2006 1:04:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/11/06: Ted Kennedy becomes the designated driver and moral spokesperson for the Democrat party.)
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To: WaterDragon
“I like your ideas on taxes,” she tells the former college football star, ..., “but I don’t like your other ideas so much”

In other words, a typical american TWIT who want the goverment to DO SOMETHING, but won't accept her own personal responsibility.

3 posted on 01/18/2006 1:05:29 PM PST by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: WaterDragon

Interestingly, the only legit conservatives coming up through the ranks are Swann, Steele, and Blackwell.

all of the contenders so far for the Presidency in 08 are RINOs who are afraid of life, fiscal responsibility, and guns.


4 posted on 01/18/2006 1:09:10 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude
all of the contenders so far for the Presidency in 08 are RINOs who are afraid of life, fiscal responsibility, and guns.

Well, I hope the country finds another candidate for president because we really badly need Blackwell here in Ohio as governor.

5 posted on 01/18/2006 1:12:14 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: WaterDragon
This has been posted before but I don't get tired of threads that have this in the article
“Jesse Jackson’s worst nightmare.”

:>)

6 posted on 01/18/2006 1:19:48 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: DoughtyOne

"In the midst of the campaign, one Ohio Democrat compared Blackwell to a “children’s Transformer toy,” because he wore an Afro in college and today is a conservative."

I know folks,he sounds good, but this 57 year old government official is wearing his hair differently than when he was a college student.


7 posted on 01/18/2006 1:22:36 PM PST by ansel12
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To: apackof2

I did do a search before posting this, but sometimes an article is posted without it's original title.

It is just so reassuring to read about Blackwell, that he's determined to get elected. He certainly is in my prayers! It will be to the benefit of the entire country if he's elected.


8 posted on 01/18/2006 1:23:51 PM PST by WaterDragon
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Well the search option is screw-ie sometimes
9 posted on 01/18/2006 1:25:26 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: WaterDragon

I know one of this guys consultants. He's got an incredible team behind him.


10 posted on 01/18/2006 1:25:45 PM PST by GulfBreeze
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To: ansel12

My last post was meant to be to be to number 7.

You comment on Blackwell's past. I see his early foray into liberalism not as a blackmark, but as good. He has a very clear idea of what's in store for America (and decent people like his father) if these people get power.


11 posted on 01/18/2006 1:26:20 PM PST by WaterDragon
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Pretty bad, when Blackwell's biggest problem isn't the dems but other republicans.


12 posted on 01/18/2006 1:27:23 PM PST by jbwbubba
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To: WaterDragon

It was a joke, I was mocking the hair-do comment. Wearing an afro was a common hairstyle, not a political identity.


13 posted on 01/18/2006 1:32:02 PM PST by ansel12
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Ohio's apparently has more RINOs than the Sarengetti but Blackwell seens to be a real deal conservative. Wouldn't it be a shocker to have 2 black Republican governors and 2 black Republican senators after the '06 vote.

Amazing.... and frightening for the race pimps in the Rat party.


14 posted on 01/18/2006 1:36:45 PM PST by Neville72 (uist)
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To: DoughtyOne

He and Mike Pence come from the same strain of Reagan Conservatism (unlike many elected officials today) who either are pansies or have abandoned conservatism for the easyness of "pragmatism"-media attention.


15 posted on 01/18/2006 1:37:18 PM PST by JSDude1 (If we are not governed by God, we WILL be governed by Tyrants-William Penn..founder of Pennsylvania)
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To: ansel12

"I know folks,he sounds good, but this 57 year old government official is wearing his hair differently than when he was a college student."
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Me too. It's disappearing from the top of my head, and is now in my ears and nose.


16 posted on 01/18/2006 1:39:59 PM PST by Stark_GOP
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To: ConservativeDude
Interestingly, the only legit conservatives coming up through the ranks are Swann, Steele, and Blackwell.

Reagan planted the seeds.

As the great communicator often said......

you aint seen nothin yet!!

17 posted on 01/18/2006 1:42:26 PM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (expell the fat arrogant carcasses of Congress)
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To: WaterDragon

Ken Blackwell: The next governor of the great state of Ohio!


18 posted on 01/18/2006 1:44:23 PM PST by Nasher
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To: WaterDragon

I totally agree (as a recovering liberal myself....though only briefly and when I was very young). Once you have seen liberals, in the comfort of their dens, letting it all hang loose and speak freely, a level of disbelief and healthy fear settles over you....how long it last, I can't say for sure....I'm at 16 years and counting....


20 posted on 01/18/2006 1:49:53 PM PST by hilaryrhymeswithrich (It's all about the swagger......)
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