Posted on 05/27/2005 2:11:04 PM PDT by Zechariah11
On the Sean Hannity Program today there was serious discussion that former Congressman John Kasich could challenge Senator Mike DeWine in next year's Republican primary in Ohio. Besides being a former congressman Kasich is known as a fill-in host of Fox News Channel.
When he ran for the Senate against Kennedy, Kennedy (yes! The Swimmer!) trounced him in the debate. One thing there: Romney went into the debate pro-life; a rant from Kennedy, and he waffled visibly. I saw in the paper today he's been "moderately" pro-choice, but is now switching (back?) to pro-life.
He is supposedly against gay marriage, but hasn't said anything I recall since the SJC decision (and didn't say much in the time leading up to it or about its re-hearing -- they decided today there was no reason to reverse themselves just to give the peons -- oops, voters a chance to be heard).
When the state-wide smoking ban was proposed, he was against it. He said he'd veto it, because the cities and towns should decide (not a word about business owners), but when the legislature passed it, he signed without hesitation.
He did veto the stem-cell bill, but it was passed with a veto-proof majority, so there would seem to be no downside for him.
Actually, I rather like Mitt. And I admit he's in an impossible position in this unregenerate state, though he may be holding off some of the worst excesses our legislature is capable of. I think he's a good man, but (like Frist?) too honest and too much of a gentleman even to guess what Dems will pull. He is not a street fighter!
And everyone said...it's about time. ;*)
As I recall it, rumors about Condit's participation (and possibly Kasick's) in some sort of exotic sex club were just starting to surface (coming out of the Chandra Levy story). But then 9/11 happened, and no one ever picked up on it again. (I remember Howie Carr remarking that Condit was one of the few "winners" from 9/11.)
Thanks for the information---
The only time I have ever "seen" Romney (other than as the Olympics guy), was during a hearing in Washington re: the marriage amendment, right after the Mass. Supremes decided to make law for all of us Americans out here....he said during that hearing that he would be FOR a marriage amendment...
But, from what you have just told me about him, he may have changed his mind again...
I just figured that any conservative the gets elected in Massachusetts must have something special...LOL
What about the guy that Kerry beat for the Senate a long time ago? Has he dropped out of politics?
You're talkin bout a party that wouldn't jettison Specter.
Save your money.
I didn't hear Rush today (trip to a funeral home) but I'm not buying what you and he are selling either. I'm not saying the WH sent them to "make a deal." However, you and Rush are discounting the President's own comments about the deal - things moving forward, pleased about it, etc. Maybe he is just trying to put a happy face on this fiasco now that he sees what the outcome is likely to be - loss of senate seats in '06. I still say these 7 are not off the reservation and there are plenty more than these 7 that will never vote to disarm their abortion buddies in order to get constitutionalists on the courts. As long as they cover for each other, there isn't any way to determine who is walking the walk and who is talking the talk, so the voters can never figure out how many and who we need to get rid of. It's a game the Republican party has been playing for a long time and sadly getting away with it.
Kasich is a gun grabbing weasel. It would be a battle of the RINO supremes. He would be another undependable vote in the senate.
My guess is Warner will retire. He's so ancient that he's our Bob Byrd.
Yes, not as conservative, or as appealing as Blackwell but conservative. But Auditor Betty Montgomery has been the top vote getter in Ohio. She out polled Governor Taft, Attorney General Petro ,and Secretary of State Blackwell in their last election when all four were running for office. All four won but Betty got the most votes.
She is originally from Northwest Ohio. I owned a radio station there and was familiar with her when she started out some years ago. She is respected as a very hard worker. She is a lawyer but not much of a media hound.
She does not get a lot of media attention. Blackwell as Secretary of state was in the middle of the Ohio recount thing. That was Blackwell and he was all over national TV. That is mostly why you saw him on TV in Texas.
Grass roots works like this. The Bush campaign in Ohio had local people make personal calls on most registered Republican voters in Ohio. Where ever possible the person doing the call was a friend or at least an acquaintance of the person being canvased. They also had lists of Church members. Nearly every church member was contacted and asked to vote. Where possible church members were contacted by a member of their own congregation.
Thus we have friends talking to friends to ask them to vote for a certain candidates. They give them a sample ballot listing who they want to be elected. They give the voter reasons to vote for those candidates. They call the canvased person back during the 72 hours before the election reminding them to vote.
By looking at who we contacted in the 2004 and who actually voted, and the election results we know pretty nearly how many votes were influenced. But it was not just votes for Bush, it was votes for other Republican candidates as well
Four years ago the grass roots organization Betty put together worked for Taft, Petro, and Blackwell in addition to working for Betty. In the coming primary they will working for only Betty. Petro and Blackwell will for the first time need their own organization. Betty being Betty beat them to the punch.
The same thing holds true in primary elections. The party volunteers know who they contacted who voted and who won. It is that kind of number crunching that tells a campaign how many votes the people who are volunteering that campaign can produce.
That in a nutshell is Betty's advantage and the problem Blackwell faces.
Four years ago other people outside of Blackwell's campaign including Betty helped get out the votes for Ken. This time he will have to do it himself. He has yet to start.
LOL...see post #102. ;*)
Speaking of the drunken senator from Mass., does anyone ever run against him?
Also, is there any truth to the rumors regarding Jerome Corsi running against the illegal senator from Mass. in 2008?
Yes. It's about time.
Bill Weld (the former gov of MA) ran against Kerry in 1996 I think (only a Libertarian ran against Kerry in 2002). Then Weld wanted to be ambassador to somewhere, insulted Jesse Helms in the process, and Helms put the kibosh to that. Weld went to NY to practice law (and left his wife for a girlfriend). He's made some noises recently about challenging Hillary in NY.
Weld styled himself as social liberal/fiscal conservative. Well, the "social liberal" part he took seriously! He also seems to be something of a dilettante -- he's bright enough, I guess (and personally engaging I hear), but he seems to get bored. He hard against a more thorough conservative for the Rep nomination for governor; once he had the job, he apparently had enough of it sometime into his second term and left.
She sure sounds formidable---but that is a good thing...
I am so tired of wimpy, squishy Republicans...
Tony Snow just called Mike DeWine, Mike DeWeenie...LOL
(I get Snow's show in time delay at night, here in Texas)
Nope---not good enough---
We need to set our sights high before we endorse a candidate, and wishy-washy won't cut it...and a guy that gets bored easily sounds like Clinton....
Kennedy routinely wins with about 70% of the vote. In addition to his formidable machine and the aura from JFK, I gather he has terrific constituent services -- you have a problem with Social Security or the VA or something, his staff gets right on it and gets results.
DeWine missed a vote today.. Someone told the senate janitor to take out the trash.
LOL---Fox News gave both he and Lindsay Graham a forum tonight on Brit's show, to "splain themselves...
didn't do any good.
I'm from Michigan but I will send him money the day he announces against DeWine.
Kasich is merely squishy on the second ammendment, Dewine is down right hostile. Dewine voted against banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
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