You have totally missed the point I was trying to make, but that seems to be par for the course with uber-liberals like you.For those who care to follow along, "OhioRebel" has a post on what's happening here in Ohio politics which quotes yours truly. The quote comes from this post. After the quote, "Ohio Rebel" says this:
This kind of anti-progress rhetoric is part and parcel of why Republicans will continue their descent from the lofty perches they thought would be their's for the foreseeable future as recently as last year.The irony here is that "Ohio Rebel" has the gall to say that President Bush is "spending us into oblivion" while Taxin' Ted gets a budget that continues spending like Ohioans are a bunch of drunken sailors.
And while it may not come to pass, this page thinks the 2008 elections, at the national and state levels, will be won by Democrats, going away. Ohio may not be the tipping point state because other states that went Republican in past years will switch blue, and a majority of those "purple states" will also go blue as well, creating a landslide victory for Democrats.
As Bush blathers on about his war and why he wants to kill more American soldiers and spend us into oblivion, American voters, young and old, independent and Democrat with a surprising number of Republicans who will make the switch to sanity, will form a block of votes that will put Republicans in Al Gore's lockbox. The dunderheaded policies that Blackwell and today's current crop of Republican hopeful advocate will fall flat with voters, who can see with their own eyes and feel in their own pocketbooks are contrary to their own best interests.
Once again, Republicans didn't lose 2006 because they weren't "progressive"; they lost because there was a perception that the GOP brand in this state had become tainted by corruption. A perception that has now firmly been assumed in reality by the Democrats who took over. Richard Cordray has opened the state to all kinds of corruption with his "securitization" of the tobacco settlement which is being billed as the largest financial transaction in Ohio history. Marc Dann preached against "pay to play" during the campaign but is paying off all of his cronies now that he is in office. Jennifer Brunner claimed that Ken Blackwell was too partisan as Secretary of State, but is quickly showing herself to be the most partisan Secretary of State in Ohio history. Ted Strickland's first veto was overturned by the Ohio Supreme Court and Ted keeps appointing contributors to fat cat gigs in his administration. All of that sounds pretty "progressive" to me, but your mileage may vary...
If Ohio voters go along with all of that it will be for two reasons: 1) the Ohio GOP didn't clean up their act and hit the Democrats for the hypocrisy; and/or 2) the 527 media in this state decided that this level of rot was acceptable in order to have Democrats running this state the rest of the way in to the ground. I'll say it again, Bob Taft (and George Voinovich before him...) was a liberal -- a progressive, if you will -- and look what it has gotten us? We are 49th in the nation for business climate and we have a 6.1% unemployment rate which is well above the national average. Progressive ideals have failed this state; but let's see how it all gets spun anyway, shall we?
