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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Dennis Prager (LA KRLA 870) spoke of Blackwell today. Blackwell sounds like a pretty good conservative, fiscal and otherwise.
In other words, a typical american TWIT who want the goverment to DO SOMETHING, but won't accept her own personal responsibility.
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.
Well, I hope the country finds another candidate for president because we really badly need Blackwell here in Ohio as governor.
:>)
"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.
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.
I know one of this guys consultants. He's got an incredible team behind him.
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.
Pretty bad, when Blackwell's biggest problem isn't the dems but other republicans.
It was a joke, I was mocking the hair-do comment. Wearing an afro was a common hairstyle, not a political identity.
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.
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.
"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.
Reagan planted the seeds.
As the great communicator often said......
you aint seen nothin yet!!
Ken Blackwell: The next governor of the great state of Ohio!
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....
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