C'mon Ohio! I would hate to see former NJ State Attorney and lunk-headed liberal John Farmer be right!
I'm sick of all the pessimism. Notwithstanding the drumbeat from the RATS and their media handmaidens, we can win this election. First step is to turn our own attitudes around.
The "negative Republican story" blitz that we are seeing is unprecedented and will only become more strident as we draw nearer to election day. They are meant to instill defeatism, doubt and doom into the rank and file Republican Party so they won't come out to vote. If this tactic works we will only see worse in 2008.
GOP is poised to blow the DEMS away in FL and possibly CA as well
Can't wait.
Ain't gonna work.
For more, go to http://www.gop.com/blog/. You'll find this: "RNC spokesman Aaron McLear told [ABC] that 'The assertion that the RNC is pulling out of Ohio is not accurate. We have been and will continue to assert a considerable level of support for Sen. DeWine.' While another Republican Party official added, 'We have spent more money in Ohio than any other state and that level of spending will continue through Election Day.'
Seems obvious to me that the MSM is attempting to suppress the vote in key races by making up stories of gloom and doom.
This is just another round between the CountryClubbers vs. the GrassRoots. Been there, done that. GrassRoots Republicans will vote for RINOs (while holding their nose), but it doesn't seem like it works the other way around. Ken Blackwell is the future of the Ohio GOP, but it's hard to get the current CountryClubbers to see the light.
Like the 2004 exit polls?
Who's home in the middle of the day when they conduct most of the phone polls? Employed people?
There is only one poll that matters, and it takes place on November 7th.
John Farmer sounds like a Girly Poster It for my tagline.
What a load of bs?
Yesterday, it was Ohio Democrats Nervous about GOP's Superior Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts.
Today it's GOP Fears Ohio Democrats' Strength a Nationwide Omen.
-PJ
I will be happily voting for Ken Blackwell.
Blackwell embodies the reforms necessary to the Ohio Republican party. I do wonder if RINOs in the Ohio GOP will try to subvert Blackwell.
I still think he will win.
Right here is an example of media bias. In fact, Brown calls for US combat force withdrawl from Iraq. No he didn't set a "date". He just wants them out. I read that to mean "now" or "as soon as possible". Hardly the impression this article would give you, though. Also, since we're fighting and killing terrorists in Iraq, how does that divert from the goal of fighting terrorists? It's really a stupid statement. It's like saying,
"Yes, while we're killing terrorists in Iraq, we're also not winning enough, so let's leave this $hithole and go kill terrorists elsewhere, even if we don't find as many to kill as we do in Iraq."
Did ya'll catch this? This is straight out of the NY Times new talking point that Americans are "tired" of all this "values talk."
This guy reminds me of some businessmen that sat behind me in the donut shop in 2000, and were all concerned about Bush's connections to "Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson." The fact is, these kinds of people like to boink their secretaries and not face any kind of judgment, but they vote Republican so that their wallets stay fat.
So I don't know if this guy EVER voted for Bush or voted for the Republican ticket, but I don't mind if he votes for "pedophile Ted."
The media know what the problems are of some Republicans in Ohio and they know many of those problems are not actual increases in attraction to Democrats.
The Repbublican problems in Ohio are a disaffected Republican base that is disaffected not because some critical Ohio Republicans are not "moderate" enough, but because they, like many in Washington, have abandoned too many Republican principals - like small government and low taxes. The low polls for some Ohio Republicans reflect conservative, not moderate anger at some of them.
You cannot project the damage done by a feckless RINO governor (Square Bob Sponge Tax) and two RINO senators in Ohio onto the nation.
I don't think Ohio is the best measuring stick. There is a tremendous backdrop of scandal that you don't see in most states.