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it is not just conservatives eating conservatives these days.

Miers is Darth Vader as far as the liberal left is concerned. Prolife, anti-gay activism, you name it.

Reid praising her will be the same at Hatch praising Ginsburg.

Stick a fork in reid: he's done.

I live in Ohio and Hackett is running against DeWine.  People in this state are so sick of DeWine they'd vote for just about anyone.

His overall weaselness? Or is there some other issue?

. . .is that friendly fire incidents become increasingly likely as time goes on.  When the cannon in question has "Inspected by the Kos Kids" stamped on his posterior, this is even more true.

Hackett's campaign is likely to be the one that we so badly wanted in Howie Dean last year!!!!

Pass the popcorn!

it is in your side's interests to exaggerate what happened, a la Howard Dean, but what if it did happen? Then Hackett will be seen in Ohio as a true independent? In that state, how is that bad?

In answer to why people just want DeWine out, some of it has to do with him, but probably most of it has to do with the completely corrupt nature of the state GOP. Though DeWine's involvement seems peripheral at best, it's still got to be working against him a bit.

Is there a link to the encounter?

Dems seem hell bent on moving further to the left. Since they have only had any national success when running candidates percieved to be centrist (Bill Clinton) in the last twenty years. I can only interpret that as a positive for the GOP.

  However, I dont like it. If the GOP can continue to ignore fiscal restaint, the borders, and a variety of issues just because its opponants are weak, then we all loose.

I've met Mike DeWine in person at his annual Ice Cream socials and was so glad anyone was replacing Metzenbaum that I wasn't too concerned about his conservative credentials.

The tipping point for me was his joining the other spaghetti-spined Republicans in the filibuster compromise.  I called his office when this compromise was about to go down and complained loudly to his staffer at his Ohio HQ.  I was told that Republicans filibustered Clinton's court nominees also.  Challenging her to name one she, of course, didn't have any information.  I, for one, do not intend to vote for any DeWine again.

When are Republicans going to learn that no amount of compromise with the Dems will ever win them over to your side?  Bush Senior was conned into raising taxes after his "no new taxes" vow, then was lambasted by Clinton and Gore for raising taxes.  You can take it easy on the Democrats, but they won't take it easy on you.  

in ousting a Republican and letting a demo in. I'm from CA, and I only dream about getting one of my socialist senators ousted for any Republican.

That being said, IMO any Republican is better than a demo. At least it adds to the majority. Yeah, I hate squishy RINO's. But at least being in the majority gets us the Chairmanships, the Leader, the agenda. That's a far better position to be in than the disloyal oppositions party is in now.

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

You must have had a moment of epiphany between yesterday and today.

It's good to see you are settling in.  It will be a long and hairy fight, and unfortunately, many of us Rs loaded their weapons for them.  (And I admit I probably supplied a bullet or two when I found out it wasn't Luttig.)  :[

that Ohio is looking dangerously like Illinois' GOP, and that's why, as conservatives hate DeWine, it is imperative that he stays in the Senate

The R's seem "hellbent" on moving further to the right (witness the demise of the Rockefeller wing).   The polarization is really getting worse.

Gerrymandering districts such that the party primaries are the key to success is leading both parties into ruin.  Republicans waste borrowed cash paying off their buds, Dems waste taxed cash on their constituency.  Without a balance we'll keep crashing back and forth from curb to curb like the Brits.

...that with Republicans like we have now, who needs Democrats?

If the Republicans are moving "to the Right" as you suggest, why is the Conservative agenda getting dropped on the floor?

I have had a total conversion, written about on other threads.

Miers will be the most conservative justice on the Court. All we are hearing indicates she is to to the right of Nino.

I'd take Hackett to not be so hard left but rather divisively and aggressively partisan.  His experience and temperment aside, this isn't a winning strategy for Ohio.  I have no idea if this exchange took place or not but, if so, it might lend some credence to the rumor that Sherrod Brown is reconsidering entering the race.  Hackett stands zero chance if Reid would sabotage him with the DNC and various Democrat campaign committees.

Ohio politics is just plain weird these days.

Where did you get the information on the Hackett/Reid  encounter?