So I guess that will eliminate Ryan’s seat then. ;-D
I’m puzzled by your suggestion to run Rep. Steve Chabot for the Senate in 2018. He’ll turn 66 less than 3 weeks before the convening of Congress in 2019. We need younger blood here. Mandel might be better off running for the open Governorship instead. I see AG Mike DeWine has already declared for the Governorship, we don’t need another RINO in that office. There hasn’t been a non-RINO Governor elected in Ohio since Jim Rhodes won his 4th and final term in 1978. I kinda wish Ken Blackwell would give it another try, but he’ll be almost 71 at the start of the term.
I’m worried Pig Vomit will try to run for Senator, which would assure scores of Republicans voting for Sherrod Brown or not voting at all. We already know he was happy to have (and counted on) Hillary becoming President, so a nice gift to the Dems in the form of a Senate seat that should be in GOP hands ain’t out of the question. At this point, I’m not sure who should be the Senate nominee.
Young blood would be great, but winning the election is imperative. Sherrod Brown turned Seth Mandel’s youth against him last time, and we need to pick the candidate who can (i) win and (ii) do a good job for at least two terms. Chabot has experience and guts, and his base in the Cincinnati area could be the key to victory. He can get elected at 66 and reelected at 72, and if he retires at 78 (in a non-presidential year, making it easier for us to hold the seat) after having served 12 solid years in the Senate, I wouldn’t see that as a disappointment. BTW, do you know who also will be 78 at the end of his second term in office? Donald Trump. I don’t think age will be a factor for either of them.
You brought up the terrific Ken Blackwell, who unfortunately picked the wrong year to run fir governor (2006). If Blackwell wants to serve in Congress for a coupke of terms, he could run to succeed Chabot.
For the record, my preferred Senate candidate from OH is the same person that topped my list 10 years ago: Congressman Jim Jordan. But I don’t think Jordan wants to give up his safe U.S.House seat or his power as head of the Republican Study Committee.
Voting for Sherrod Brown? That would be psychotic. I don’t think Ohio Republicans are psychotics, that would like eating of the toilet cause you burned your dinner.
I’ll personally kick the butt of anyone advocating a vote for a democrat for the US Senate for ANY reason (other than a Harris/Sanchez situation in states with stupid election systems) just as I kicked the butts of the mental midgets who supported Alison Hillary Hussein “Grimey” Lunderfrown Grime(s), it’s the same thing as voting for Hitler at this point to vote for democrat pestilence, not an option, period, if the Republicans nominate feces you can’t support, fine, don’t vote for it, but don’t vote for Hitler either. Cannot be tolerated, liberal rats never vow to vote Republican if their favorite moonbats aren’t nominated, never. We need to move far far away from this logically flawed kind of thinking.
That said, I share your extreme distaste for Gay’s itch and really hope he does not run for Senate or loses the primary if he does. Charlie Crist his @ss, if he thinks he’s entitled to it he’s got another thing coming. He should be named Ambassador to Bhutan (we’ve never had one).
Chabot is an interesting suggestion, I don’t know if he’d be interested but there is much to said about that possibility. 66 ain’t old for a Senator, Trump is 70, who cares, so I have no problem with Chabot on those grounds. We need red blood, winning blood.
On redistricting, we indeed need to be sure that places that Mahoning OH and Lackawanna PA are undergoing sufficient, to coin a term, West Virginiazation, before we act on that.