That’s Good News For Democrats?
When I read this article, I couldn’t help but think that these must be terrible times for Democrats. Here’s what supposedly passes as good news for Democrats:
GOP leaders would like to dismiss the refusal of the Ohio Republican Party’s screening committee to endorse former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine of Cedarville for attorney general as meaningless in the so-called big picture.
Maybe it is.
It also could be just the tip of an intraparty iceberg that has the potential to sink Republican hopes for a triumphant 2010 after miserable showings in 2008 and 2006. DeWine is vying for the GOP nomination for attorney general against Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost. Yost is running to DeWine’s right as the true conservative and the screening committee decided not to pick between the two of them.
The suggestion that there’s an “intraparty battle” that’s potent enough to split the Republican Party of Ohio is utter foolishness. The supposed split isn’t showing up in the Kasich vs. Strickland race. I wrote here that Scott Rasmussen’s latest polling has Kasich leading by 9 points. (Just imagine how big his lead would be if there wasn’t this terrible intraparty split!!! SARC)
I thought that Mike Dewine would be Ohio’s next attorney general. When then finish counting the votes, he still might be. That Ohio’s screening committee hasn’t endorsed a candidate tells me that there’s a tightly contested race, nothing more.
Yost is appealing to the Tea Party movement and others who believe the party lost its way with DeWine and other pseudo-Republicans who cooperated too much with Democrats, didn’t hold the line on spending and generally forgot what they were supposed to stand for.
“We want smaller government. We want our government to support the free market rather than curb it,” said Rob Scott of Kettering, a Republican who worked for Ken Blackwell in the 2006 governor’s race and now is president of the Dayton Tea Party.
I don’t know what fiscal conservatism has to do with being attorney general. It’s certainly a plausible strategy for Yost to employ but it’s difficult to figure out why being a fiscal conservative makes Yost more qualified for being Ohio’s chief law enforcement officer.
Now Senate Republicans won’t even give Strickland the votes to fill a measly $851 million hole, measly when you’re talking billions of dollars, in the state budget.
The reason why Senate Republicans won’t “give Strickland the votes” is because, surprise, surprise, Strickland wants to eliminate the deficit by raising taxes. (Ain’t that a shocker?)
Strickland’s remedy to his failed economic plan, along with President Obama’s unpopularity, is pulling Republicans together, whether it’s in Ohio, Minnesota or other states.
I suspect that William Hershey’s writing has more to do with wishful thinking than with reality. That’s what it’s come to with Democrats.
Technorati Tags: Dave Yost, Mike Dewine, Attorney General, Endorsement, TEA Parties, John Kasich, Republicans, Ted Strickland, Tax Increases, Democrats
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
December 13th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
There is yet in Ohio, a remnant of the level haededness that used to characterize the entire upper and eastern midwest. Ohioans, eventually sense when their served well, and when they are getting screwed by their leaders. I know because I was born and raised there
Thats one of the reasons its a swing state. The general consensus around my home town is - Dewines is history, and the state GOP is simply getting out from under the hod of falling bricks.
December 14th, 2009 at 11:28 am
After the debacle that was New York earlier this year, it’s not surprising Republican “leadership” is nervous about backing a “moderate” (generally known in conservative circles as a “flaming liberal”) over a more conservative candidate.
I’m actually surprised Mikey and the gang at national hasn’t stepped in with all the wisdom of an amoeba and told the local to back whomever’s most liberal because that’s the only way the party will ever “feel the love” of the MSM.
What a bunch of lousy losers.
December 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Yeah, I hear what you say Carlos, but at the same time, any “Tea Party” for want of a better word, is going to have to do a helluva better than 36%, or one year from, we’ll still be stuck on stupid, unless no one at all votes for the Dems. I seriously doubt that will happen, much Id like it to.
That means either drawing more votes from both parties , or a complete rebuild of the GOP. And we dont have time for the latter now. Conservatives need to start getting our act together, and most importantly, find a real conservative leader that can effectively ennunciate conservatism and free enterprise.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Actually, USN, it should be easier in this midterm than in 2012. “All” we have to do is get tea partyers out of their comfort zones and get their votes in, plus the votes of independents who realize that their “neutrality” is leading them to a really uncomfortable loss of their lifestyle.
Midterms are typically hard on presidents (especially ones who got large lots of special interest votes, like blacks or teens/twentysomethings), and if we can get our base motivated (sorry Gary, that won’t happen with or be led by the NRC) then we really might have a chance to pull it off.
That said, I’m not counting on it happening, but will continue working for it. I just hope the Republican “leaders” don’t undermine the movement.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Well, they (the GOP) have shown a remarkable talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory before. I think if there is going to be any Republican rebirth, it will have to come from the governors and big city mayors. Guys like Kasich, Romney, Giuliani and Palin. There guys at least know that you cant spend yourself out of debt. Regulate business into prosperity and tax your way to surpluses.
Even a drunken sailor quites drinking when he runs out of money.