The Pullins Report - Ohio House Republicans Are Minority Bound
HT to BSB. I predicted some time ago that Ohio House Republicans would lose their majority in 2008. Here's more evidence why.
We knew that Ohio Republicans engaged in an orgy of spending over the last 13 years. But now we know that they have their own earmark problem too.
Scott Pullins, Esq.
Publisher,
The Pullins Report
We knew that Ohio Republicans engaged in an orgy of spending over the last 13 years. But now we know that they have their own earmark problem too.
Scott Pullins, Esq.
Publisher,
The Pullins Report
Scott ;
While I agree with you that the spending was inappropriate, I have to wonder if the average Ohio voter will really care. For 13 years Ohio citizens have voted for big spending and big government republicans time and time again. I think that the only way the republicans could lose if confronted with democrat candidates announcing “more spending,” basically being out spent. I see the average Ohio voter as fiscally undisciplined at home and in government. Ohioans have really lost their way.
Here is another indicator supporting this, currently the two top presidential candidates for Ohio are Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. Both of the candidates are big government and big spending candidates that have the record to back it up my statement. So what does that say about Ohioans; they like big government politicians.
A second indicator is the number of elected officials that are in fact socialist. Now I am not trying to be incendiary, but we have a number that are in fact present day socialists; even one, Kucinich could be classified as a modern communist. But think about this, in your life time and those of your parents, when in the history of Ohio would it be possible for a known socialist to be voted to national office. Yet today we have Kucinich, Strickland, Brown, and Tubbs. Again, what does that say about Ohioans; it says they have moved decidedly to the left.
As far as I can tell, this is what the ORP has been reading in the tea leaves for the last 13 years and this why they have continued to support republican politicians that act accordingly. The ORP is more concerned with winning elections than shaping the future of Ohio.
One of the many errors of the ORP has been that they have failed miserably in any attempt to educate the general population about the perils of large government, over spending, and over regulation (I guess they never really failed because they never made the attempt.)
But at the end of the day, if the ORP loses the next elections nothing will really change in Ohio because the parties are behaving exactly alike. Also nothing will change because we will continue the downward spiral behind Michigan and Illinois. And nothing will change in the ORP because at this point they have yet to grasp the problem in Ohio.
Hell, just the other day Rep. Husted is talking about universal health care insurance for all Ohioans. This is madness. Once more, nothing will change because the republicans just don’t get it, nor do Ohioans! And the ones that do are currently living in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.
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This comment speaks to the real issue in Ohio, something I have seen since the early 70s when I moved her from Indiana. But it’s not likely Bennett understands this because he is after all from the same stomping ground as Kucinich. Maybe there is something in the water.
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