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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I would bet no one actually studied this woman i didn't vote for her highness the wishy washy flip flopper
Funniest part about this "special election" was everyone running all of a sudden became as stand up "Conservative" Republican. i'll bet most couldn't tell you how conserve is spelled let alone means .
Allow me to drop out of Lurkin' & Linkin' Mode for a moment... you're in Ohio, eh? My Mom's family is from Pomeroy.
It's funny how labels shift around... where I live, until Ronald Reagan came along, you could not win office with an "R' beside your name... since then, you can't win without it.
Yet people don't change that much- what we used to have were conservative, Southern Democrats who were strong supporters of the military, the Second Amendment, and free speech... they really weren't bad guys, by & large.
Be that as it may, I'm pleased Mike's Boy went down to defeat...maybe it will be a trend.
Let's see if the father learned his lesson. Stabbing the President in the back doesn't go over well with the regular folks back home.
Blame Diebold!!!
In all seriousness.......was the son leading in the polls at any time?
Can Ohio remain in the Republican camp long term, or is the dynamic changing? Its awful close to Michigan, and I'm worried that some of my state's left wing bias will eventually rub off.
I agree with you, except for the first three. Any pubbie elected from the Northeast will probably be lib, because the states are blue.
Though they rejected DeWine, it sounds like this "conservative" district has again fooled itself by nominating a liberal OH Republican. Conservatives are too weak to divide their votes among multiple candidates in primaries.
Correction, Schmidt is NOT a liberal, we are now told.
Didn't hurt that she was endorsed by the Cincinnati Enquirer ... who, by the way, happens to have a women sitting at the top of the masthead as editor and publisher. The same paper that frequently writes gushy (laudatory) pieces about the new president of the University of Cincinnati who ... you guessed it ... is a female.
Oh well, for my part I don't mind having another pro-life woman in Congress!
I think the Virginia primaries had a similar effect ... the more "moderate" GOP candidates were hurt by Warner's participation in "The Deal."
In Maine, they elect dreadful Senators. They also put up even more dreadful Democrats to run against them. When Collins ran, her opponent was Chellie Pingree, the horror that now runs Common Cause.
I think in this case, we have to either accept these moderate mediocraties or send them to Coventry and cede the state to the DIMS. As for me, we're all boycotting Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont as too politically flaky to be fun any more.
Good news! Ideally, we should prop up as many RINOs as we can in our primaries, and only one true conservative. Split up the RINO vote and facilitate a true conservative win!
Thanks for the ping!
This female university president at UC is finally sitting on the asylum/basketball program there so she is A-OK with me.
Doesn't The Little Weenie have child abuse claim
in here somewhere?
"It might have had something to do with the fact that he left his 8-months-pregnant wife and two kids for another woman."
Not a wise move for someone trying to win elections.
Maybe it had something to do with the deal the seven idiots made to prevent the Constitutional option?
unfortunately, I didn't go vote... everything I found online indicated that the primary was for district 2, and everything I found online indicates that I'm in district 9. but somebody on here said the primary included Hamilton county... which would have been ME.
you'd think as a registered republican, I would have gotten something in the mail!
but I would have voted either for Schmidt or Brinkman anyway, so I won't complain.
:-)
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