Who did we want to win that?
Which one is the true conservative?
Good. Never liked her. We’ll more readily keep the District that way too. Just voting conservative isn’t enough for me, You need that plus ... I just never had a good feeling about her as being a decent person. Tough to put my finger on.
Sounds very positive -
Just saw posted on Twitter that her opponent was an Iraq war vet and she struggled to win in the past 2 elections despite the district being very positive R
Local radio here has had many ads running against her by Wenstrup during Rush, Hannity hours. He’s been hitting her on being too close to Obama, which is unfair, and voting for TARP, which is completely fair.
Probably a net gain, although the lefties will crow. I just wonder where Wenstrup got the money. Most of these ads were unanswered by Schmidt, so she either got lazy or was caught off guard.
She also got redistricted, that may be a factor.
and Dennis the Menes Kucinich lost tonight also..good job even though Marcy Kaptur is pretty worthless but both Democrats so what can one expect.
Nice to see Santourm giving Mitt a run for the money in Ohio as well, but we can all figure the ‘fix is in’ for Mitt.
Good. Her district was safe Republican but the GOP always had to spend money on it because she was so unpopular. It would be like the Dems spending having to spend money to win a San Francisco seat.
I didn’t see this coming, Mean Jean lost the primary. I don’t know anything about the guy who defeated her.
In other news, Dennis “The Menace” Kucinich was defeated in the primary and Mary Jo Kilroy lost her bid to return to Congress. There seems to be an anti-establishment sentiment in Ohio.
She is from the other side of town, I am in Chabot country. Jean Schmidt wasnt a very good rep for our area and she has always been dogged by “ethics violations”. Her most disgusting habit has been to camp out in the gallery for the SOTUA and then go get kissy kissy with Bush (which was understandable) and even with 0bozo. There was even a funny radio ad that parodied that habit of hers.
Brad Wenstrup seems like a good guy, a fellow Vet so definately a plus in my book and he ran quite a good campaign against our local limp armed mayor. Fingers crossed that he will be a good conservative instead of a GOP lapdog but I think he will be just fine.
Any Cincy area FReepers feel free to send me a PM, we ought to band together for some local FReep support.
I’m not that surprised. Schmidt nearly lost twice to democrats in a strongly republican district.
Jean Schmidt was seriously injured in her first term as a congresswoman when she attacked John Murtha as a fraud. Everyone went after her, since, so they said, Murtha was a “hero”.
It turns out that led to her being challenged in the repub primary ever since she was first elected. That always depleted her resources and left her vulnerable in the general election.
With the redistricting, she probably planned to go light in the primary in hopes of having resources for the general election.
It also turns out she was right about Murtha and all the republicans who attacked her over it were proven wrong when Murtha accused our Marines of being cold-blooded murderers.
She also had a LIBERAL rating group that attacks conservatives list her on their own rating system as one of the most corrupt members of congress. She received legal help from some outfit that she was supposed to reimburse. She didn’t know some law group was defending her over something or other, but when she found out, she turned it in for a ruling by the House DURING the Pelosi years. They took about a year to return a reply.
Let me say this. My Army son and his unit and many others in our area have been deployed time and again since 9/11. Jean Schmidt has been to every gathering, every deployment, every return, and that EVEN IF it involved just a few people from her district. She personally met with each of them, talked with them, worked with their family support groups, and followed after them.
I have nothing but good to say about extremely strong pro-life candidate Jean Schmidt. She was a huge friend to the military. She was among the most staunch pro-lifers out there.