DeWine lost because conservative Republicans didn’t support him and some nasty GOP scandals in Ohio...and Sen. Brown is so much better right? The stimulus went through with one vote...Browns. Voinivich didn’t support the stimulus...doubt DeWine would have either, but Brown did. I guess those conservative Ohioans who didn’t vote for DeWine...were really smart right? We are so much better off with Brown?
“DeWine lost his third-term re-election bid in 2006, amid Republican scandals not of his making and a state ready for a partisan change in Washington. But DeWine also battled conservatives’ criticism that he was too moderate and too easily made deals with the likes of Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Sound familiar? One thing that outraged conservatives about DeWine was his joining with McCain in the bipartisan “Gang of 14” senators trying to forge a compromise on President Bush’s judicial nominees.
GOP conservatives helped chop down DeWine, though Democrat Sherrod Brown ran a good campaign and DeWine argues it was a race no Republican could win that year.”
No, DeWine lost because he willfully pissed off the base. Conservatives didn’t support him because he didn’t support Conservatives. We do not serve Senators, sir, they serve us. When they do wrong, as DeWine did, do not expect us to rubber-stamp their actions. Maybe if he had considered that, he’d still be sitting in the Senate today. But please don’t try to sell me the line that nominating RINOs yields us massive victories. If that were the case, New England, the North East, and the West Coast would be overflowing with GOP elected officials. There’s almost none in those places, because when the electorate is faced with a choice between a liberal Democrat and liberal Republican, they go with the real deal.