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.
Well replacing DeWine with Brown certainly helps no one...the stimulus would not have gone through without Brown’s vote...but you are right-hard line conservatives defeated DeWine...I just don’t see how that helps us...now we will have to unseat an incumbent Democrat-no easy task...I sincerely hope Voinivich’s seat goes to a Repub...Kasich might be a good choice. We shall see.