Look on the bright side, Portman is up in 2016, and hopefully he’ll vacate his seat on a quixotic run. He turned out to be worse than DeWhine (sic) & Rectal Itch. Ohio hasn’t had a decent GOP Senator since Robert Taft, Jr. or even John Bricker (one of the casualties of the 1958 slaughter, whom himself should’ve become President).
Worse than DeWine, yes, rectal itch, I don’t know, maybe.
Boy, you are right, Ohio has not had good Senators. Taft Jr. wasn’t very conservative was he (or Saxbe), a shame what’s become of that family. I had no idea that Robert A. Taft very briefly (from Nov. 1946 until Bricker was seated in Jan) served alongside distant relative Kingsley Taft.
George Bender, briefly served, winning the remainder of Taft’s term in ‘54, before losing in ‘56.