The Ohio Republican Party is following the lead of Texas, where, after Tom Pauken assumed the state leadership, the mushy moderates were flushed out of the corridors of power.
In Ohio the Christian conservatives and tax-cutters are gradually-but inexorably-supplanting Robert Taft III cronies, and yet those two dopes in D.C. think they're going to ingratiate themselves with ordinary voters by bartering their souls over to the Dem. Caucas?!
It defies reason.
Unfortunately Bubba Taft has done more damage than good. Blackwell needs to run and run strong. Ohio can be a conservative state so long as the conservative candidate gets the message out there. Otherwise, it is a very purple state, so to speak.
But unlike South Carolina, our college football is going to be great this year :)