Warning! Warning!
Posted on 06/14/2005 10:19:55 PM PDT by RIght Wing Republican
LEBANON — Former Ohio Rep. Jean Schmidt edged former Congressman Bob McEwen by 705 votes in the special primary to pick the Republican to represent the party in an Aug. 2 election to replace former Congressman Rob Portman, according to unofficial totals.
Schmidt won with 11,486 votes after results in Hamilton and Clermont counties were added to earlier returns showing McEwen with the lead among 11 GOP candidates running to replace Portman, who is leaving the 2nd Congressional District seat after 12 years to become the U.S. foreign trade representative.... Brinkman finished third with 8,554 votes, Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine fourth with 5,041.
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Actually there were several good conservatives running in the race; trouble is there were so many candidates. I actually walked and visited Repub voters one day for Brinkman.
Schmidt is a good conservative and pro life but a little shrill. On the other hand, McEwen is a polished pol who got caught up in the check kitting scandal years back and was booted out; he did not deserve to win. Brinkman is a very conservative state rep; almost a consitutionalist.
I would have preferred Brinkman, but Schmidt will do. Big news is that little philandering RINO Pat DeWine got his as kicked; so it was a great day.
It was a very low turnout (as expected); but I believe it was the last minute TV spots Monday night and Tuesday that clinched it for Schmidt. It seemed she saved her resources to the last minute for some well place TV spots. I did not think she would be the winner. I thought it would be between McEwen and Brinkman.
Thanks for the information. I get a passing swipe at Ohio politics once in a blue moon, though I lived outside of Cleveland once a long time ago and am interested to keep up when I can.
Thank you. I'd heard a lot of good about Brinkman and was rooting for him from a distance. The same good I heard about Brinkman was bad about Schmidt, but that was of course biased information. See also my post #22.
Thanks!
This was exactly the comparison I had in mind. I was hardcore Cain and haven't been reasonably or otherwise impressed with Isakson. He's been just what I expected. Prior to the election I said Isakson would disappear in the Senate. Whereas Cain, through force of personality and the fact that the press would have flocked to him because he is ... unusually colorful for a Republican U.S. Senator from the South ... would have been a powerful voice.
As it is, Isakson has disappeared and Cain was on Cavuto this week.
Besides that, Cain was a breath of fresh air and Isakson has been in politics since the mid-1970s.
Check posts 21 and 18 in particular as well as others on this thread ... they're far more informed on this than I am.
I was speaking policy wise when I made the comparison.
Though I was a Cain supporter from afar and the reasons you cite are a bonus, so long as someone's record is reliably conservative I'll take it. many folks have commented since they've warn to Isikoff that were staunch cain supporters. IMO, nothing wrong with either man though agreed cain would be more dynamic.
correction- they've warmed
So was I ... just got carried away because after a year since the primary I can't figure out how to drop it.
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Gee, what a shocker, huh? /sarcasm
Understandable. Good guy. It's too bad, in a way, Georgia is conservative. Aren't too many openings for Cain to try his hand at left. Wouldn't mind if he moved to another state, established himself, and ran again. Georgia's loss, but would be a gain elsewhere.
Do ya think they'll pick up the hint??
The RINO-7 better get used to the feeling of losing.
Honestly? I doubt it. To be a RINO you have to have a certain degree of arrogance that is impossible to break through. Most of them will think it cannot happen to them. The few that might express concerns may think they can say a few glib words to ride it out.
The exception may be DeWine ONLY because it was his SON defeated. That personalizes the backlash.
It might have had something to do with the fact that he left his 8-months-pregnant wife and two kids for another woman.
Just saying.
I'm pretty sure Chabot represents Colerain...
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Has Sen. Mike The Whine made a statement yet?
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