Senator Michael DeWine of Ohio today became the first Senate candidate of the 2006 election season to get the endorsement of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the nation's leading gun violence prevention organization.Bradys win either way on this: If outraged gun owners ignore GOP Kool-Aid dispenser Hugh Hewitt and withhold support from DeWine, an equally bad potentially balance-tipping democrat will win a senate seat. If not, they've still got a GOA and NRA "F-rated" traitor in office.
Bradys win either way on this: If outraged gun owners ignore GOP Kool-Aid dispenser Hugh Hewitt and withhold support from DeWine, an equally bad potentially balance-tipping democrat will win a senate seat. If not, they've still got a GOA and NRA "F-rated" traitor in office.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this necessarily is the case -- there's always the chance that Mr. DeWine could go down in the primary. Ousting the incumbent in the primary has been the strategy touted by many people outraged at the behavior of RINOs like DeWine. I don't know what the chances of that would be, but there's always hope.
GOP Kool-Aid dispenser...that's about the most accurate description of Mr. Hewitt I've seen yet. On some issues I agree with him, I'll admit, but on the whole he seems to me to be just another party appratchik, blindly devoted to the GOP and willing to throw just about any constituency under the bus to win, and, unfortunately that apparently includes us gun owners.
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ReplyDeleteNot to pop pistoleros bubble, but Ohio's primary was in may.
He won.
LOTS of pissed off conservatives.
Just not enough to dump him last may.
But (hopefuly) he is feeling the heat.
I ask his campaign on a daily basis why I should vote for him. They are starting to "get it."
In '06 we will be trying to oust voinovitch.
Wish us luck.
Voinovich, DeWine, and Taft are the entire reason I decided to become active in the Republican Party--to rid the ticket of the lice that infest it.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the GOP establishment put up a third candidate in the primary to deflect the conservative candidate (William Pierce--not the same William Pierce running for governor on the Libertarian ticket). DeWine would've won anyway, most likely, but the party leaders were their usual scurrilous selves.
On the upside (such as it is), both major-party gubernatorial candidates--Republican Ken Blackwell and Democrat Ted Strickland--have said they would sign HB 347, which improves Ohio's CCW law. Blackwell is the better candidate by a country mile (and potential presidential timber down the road if he can win in Ohio), of course.
As for Hugh "Radio RNC" Hewitt--I've listened on and off for a while. I have yet to hear him take up the Second on the air. He's no friend of ours.