Posted on 05/01/2009 2:13:20 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
It's getting to be that time again:
The 2010 elections are right around the corner, and they're going to get pretty interesting in some of the most heavily contested states and congressional districts next year.
In Ohio, Republican John Kasich, a former longtime congressman and also commentator for FOX News Channel, plans to file papers today for a bid for governor, according to a well-placed source.
Republicans wanted Kasich to run in 2006, he demurred, but has been planting the seeds for 2010 since them - in March 2008, he suggested that Ohio's income tax should be "phased out.'' He served last year as honorary chairman of "Recharge Ohio,'' a group committed to finding leaders who could "get our state back on track.''
Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland presides over a state that the Democrats were able to corral for the election of President Barack Obama last year, a state which nevertheless has undergone extreme pressure in the recession now underway even before it was a recognized recession. How Ohio plays in 2010 will speak volumes about what Ohioans make of the Democratic strategy for economic recovery.
Kasich already is on the circuit: He served as the keynote speaker at the Richland County Republican Lincoln Day over the weekend and at a Columbiana County GOP dinner this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at swamppolitics.com ...
And it turns out Condit didn't have anything to do with Ms. Levy's death after all. Yes he was touching "forbidden fruit", which is bad enough.
I recall Hitchens basically being on the war on terror side. He is a great speaker; wish he didn’t wallow in the athiesm stuff so much.
Mos Def may have gotten an answer to his question but the guy NEVER shut up. How many Mountain Dews did he drink before the show?
So he is a rino then????
Who gives a damn about those negative a** wipes.. Just ignore them...
“And it turns out Condit didn’t have anything to do with Ms. Levy’s death after all.”
Oh, really?
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=10160362&nav=menu191_13_21_10
Gary Condit Appears Before Levy Murder Grand Jury
Posted: April 9, 2009 05:24 PM
Former California Congressman Gary Condit appeared Thursday before a grand jury investigating the murder of Washington, D.C. intern Chandra Levy, a source close to Condit told News Channel 3.
The reason behind Condit’s appearance is not known. That source, though, said Condit took the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer some or all questions.
“Who is running for the Senate seat?”
I don’t think it matters, do you? Brunner will get it.
I think it's absolutely critical to offload the vote fraud criminal Brunner. I'd love to see Blackwell run against her with that as a campaign point, including the fact that she is a Soros plant. There are several more in various states.
Very good news, thanks for the thread and post.
John just spoke at our Convention on the 24th, just last week, in San Destin.
He was conservative and clear.
He told us he was stopping so much work and filing for govenor shortly.
He was in office from 1983-2001 as a Representative for Ohio.
So, this is it! Goooood!
Kasich knows how to talk a good game but he’s a RINO. If you want to purify the Republican Party you don’t start with him.
Well you are living in la la land if you are hoping for pure conservatives..
I’m not convinced he’s totally innocent. It would be interesting to find out why he’s been called. Hmmmm....
If you consider gun control as a violation of the 2nd Amendment....
... and you consider the gun ban and the Brady law as gun control...
... and you consider the upholding the 2nd Amendment as a plank in the Republican platform...
.. then Kasich betrayed his Party on that issue, and if he would betray the Party on what many consider an important issue, there is no reason to believe, that under certain conditions, he may betray other issues as well.
If that's what a RINO is, then he obviously qualifies. It isn't so much that he threw out one plank of the Party, it's that he found it expedient to do so. And that he thought he'd gain something through 'bipartisanship'.
Well, he did gain something - the temporary "respect" from the MSM liberals, but he lost at least my vote and my respect along with that.
Granted he is not perfect, but you cranks who expect perfect is living in a dream world.
For years, The AC/DC PerveMaster Gary Condit and Kasich were practically joined at the hip for wild-boy mid-nite prowls around DC. Within minutes (OK I exagerate) of the Chandra Levy story breaking, Kasich was back in Ohio getting married and fathering children ... and keeping VERY VERY quiet for a long time.
How long before the Demo Slime Machine figures this out ... as if they don't already know? But maybe they figure this is their kind of guy.
Blackwell? Used to be an OK guy. Now has the same case of RINO-itis that Steele does. Where do these guys get this namby-pamby act? They make Mr. Rogers-GHWBush look tough by comparison. Wimps. We don't need'em.
I don't expect perfect. I do expect unholding the Constitution though. I don't think that's asking too much from any candidate, and esp. a Republican, whether it's Kasich or anyone else.
There were two 'situations' that have been brought up by the Dems in that regard and I'm sure they'll drag them up again, but I give them no credence at all. He was friends with Condit - so was Scarborough and there is no connection to the Levy story whatsoever, other than what is actually known about Condit's relationship with her.
There is no evidence of any wrongdoing on Kasich's part and while I won't vote for him, that is no part of the problem I have with him - it's strictly on the point that he was willing to cave in to Clinton and Pinetta on an issue that is important to me and many other Americans and Ohioans, for some real or imagined benefit and in this case it was only 'imagined', because he hasn't gained anything from his gun ban or Brady votes. No liberals are going to vote for him just because of those votes when his opponents have many other issues, including that one, with which they agree.
I remember that well.
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