It is a terrible place to bring your business, is marked by high taxes and high state government spending.
College graduates are following jobs out of the state.
Taft and his cronies ought to be in jail rather than in retirement for looting the state for their own benefit.
Our "conservative" Senators were anything but, so now we have Sherrod Brown.
Conservative voters had nothing to vote for, so they stayed home.
The conservatives in the party need someone to get excited about, to work for, to turn out for on Saturday morning to go door to door for, to tube for, to show up and make phone calls for.
I wouldn't write off Ohio, but there has to be something/one to get the conservative base motivated.
I'm a conservative. I didn't stay home. If Kenneth Blackwell wasn't conservative enough for conservatives, then who would have been? I think it's a shame that some good candidates were defeated in the fall because the some of the base didn't turn out to vote.
And I am worried about next year. If the cut-and-run conservatives decide to stay home again because the Republican candidate for president isn't ideologically pure enough for them, we could end up with Hillary or Obama as president. And frankly, I don't see how that is going to help the country or the Republican party.
If conservatives want to leave the Republican Party, they need to start building a grass-roots third party in all 50 states. They can't sit on their rear ends between election cycles and then complain that Republicans aren't conservative enough, so they're staying home or voting for some third party candidate, who might get 1% of the vote. For the time being, the Republican Party is conservatives' best hope for getting elected and influencing policy at the local, state, and federal level.
Very succinctly stated.
Cheers,
OLA