Dean blames party's "skullduggery" for withdrawal of popular Ohio Senate candidate

AP ^ | Febuary 15 2006

[libs_kma]

"And as much as I loathe DeWine, Brown will not win against him"

I'm with you on that one Rudder. Why can't we get real Conservative Senators in Ohio instead of De-whine and crybaby Voinovich?

Although I recently heard that Voinovich wiped his tears away and said he thinks John Bolton is doing good work at the U(seless)N after all.

[Rudder]

Blackwell is da man! First, we gotta get Jim Petro to withdraw. Although I think Blackwell will easily defeat him in the primary.

[G.Mason]

"He wants to revive the "Deanie baby" days, big audiences of (unable to vote) kids. There is a loud scream just itching to get out of Howie's head."

Simply amazing.

I am taken aback at the poor (reportedly) public perception of the Republican Party, deservedly, or not.

With the open idiocy that is the Democrat Party the Republicans should be having "no contest" races all over the country.

[Rudder]

Voinovich wiped his tears away and said he thinks John Bolton is doing good work at the U(seless)N after all.

Voinovich should be forced to drink soup made from Bolton's socks and underwear.

[onyx]

Reid is certifiable. You choose the category.

He's the gift who never stops giving...lol.

[Phlap]

There will be lots of skulduggery to come. First Cindy then this war hero, who will be next? Someone should keep a running total of anti war candidates who drop out because of skulduggery.

[Alas Babylon!]

Here's how it relates....

Last year, after President Bush picked Ohio congressman Rob Portman as US trade representative, opening a seat in a Republican district, this Iraq War veteran Hackett, running as a democrat, tried to win the special election held there.

Harry Reid and John Kerry, among others, convinced him to run. They were ecstatic that they had a certified "war hero". Hackett ran a national campaign to raise funds (both for himself and other Democrats) from far left liberals that attacked Bush vorciferously and personally. Very over the top. The man berated his mission, the troops in Iraq, said the insurgents were winning, Bush lied, no WMDs, etc, etc. Typical Bush bashing left wing stuff. Meanwhile Hackett campaigned locally far differently. He tried to appear as a Bush supporter and war hero, or at least Bush neutral. He still lost. The district usually went overwhelmingly republican, drawing about 60% of the vote. Hackett lost 51%-49%. The democrat leaders hailed his loss as a victory! Saying how he cut the republican tally down proved that Bush was wearying the people. Rush Limbaugh even joked about it, encouraging the democrats to have many more such "wins" in the future.

Now the ironic thing now was Hackett was going to challenge Mike DeWine for the senate seat from Ohio. The same Dem leaders who pressured and encouraged him to run last year were demanding he step down this year. The were even gearing up their slander machines to smear Hackett. So he dropped out. Hackett wrote an op-ed describing what happened to him. He said the Dem leaders have recruited 57 Iraq war veterans to run for Congressional seats as Dems, because they think they'll have heroes without the "soft on national security " reputation today's democrats have. Hackett wrote that the leaders will screw them as soon as they're used, like he was. Har!

Further proof the Dems are in complete disarray. Dean is trying to staunch a revolt from the far left barking moonbats who were threatening leaving the party after so many Dems wouldn't filibuster Alito. Now they have a new sore point over Hackett.

Personally I love it.

[Alas Babylon!]

I stand corrected. Schmidt beat Hackett 52%-48%. A 4 point loss the Dem leaders called almost a victory!

A further look shows that Sen Chucky Schumer has been sending letters out to the party faithful encouraging them NOT to fund Hackett's bid for the Ohio senate seat!

[maggief]

Extraordinary!

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Politics/Florida/floPOLFL02021506.htm

February 15, 2006

Dean says U.S. needs to reach out to Latin America


"We need to reach out. There are extraordinary opportunities and extraordinary things going on in Latin America," Dean said.

(snip)

"This is an extraordinary city. It is the jumping off point for Latin America," he said of Miami.

[ken5050]

Nice synopsis....BTWE, Dean, Schumer, and their two food tasters are gonna have a working lunch tomorrow to discuss strategy..

[MarxSux]

Watch for Durbin to challenge Reid for the leadership post later this year. Dean has been signalling that Reid may not be around much longer.

[DM1]

If i was Hackett i would run as an independent. Granted i cannot stand the guy but it seems like he got a raw deal here so in spite he should run an independent candidacy

[eeriegeno]

>I>Dean is a flippin' idiot! He couldn't run a hot dog stand with chilled water in Nigeria in a draught.

Ahh, but he would make a good farmer! He is so good at spreading BS.....

[MrTed]

Last night on FOX News I saw a statement that Hackett made which said something to the effect that the party had undermined his donor base on the east and west coasts, leaving him no money to run. I thought he was running to represent Ohio? Where was his "donor base" in Ohio?

[Alas Babylon!]

Today's Democrats get an extrodinary amount of cash from the left wing moonbats.... Starting with multi-billionaire George Soros, then throw in the far left from Hollywierd, and the Clintonian dot-commers who didn't lose their shirts in 2000 (Google, Yahoo, etc) and you'll see that fundraising is really what it's all about. Hackett raised the Dems a great deal of cash in 2005 and only a small amount went to his campaign. The majority went to the Dem leadership coffers. And they call the Republicans the party of corruption?

Now that he's no longer as useful for fundraising, he's dropped like the pos he is. Soon to be coming to starry-eyed Iraq war Democrat candidates near you!

[VaBthang4]

Thank you for the insight...lacking more and more here on FR.

[johnny7]

Rendered by rapscallions!

[Just mythoughts]

How in the world did Dean become the face and voice of the DNC??? Not complaining, just have not figured out the mechanics of how this happened.

[libstripper]

Dean told a student audience in Miami that "some skulduggery in Washington" improperly led to Hackett's decision to end his bid. And he said Democrats will have a tough time winning if similar things happen to others.

It looks like Dean has finally said something that makes real sense.

[gathersnomoss]

Hacket should have known better. He was not ignorant to the plan.

BTW, keep up the good work Democrats!