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Monday, May 05, 2008
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Dann Fool
by Rich Galen
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The Columbus Dispatch pointed out that Democratic the Attorney General's "troubles will be a renewable source of political fodder for the GOP and a form of drip-drip-drip water torture for Democrats."

Ohio is a pivotal state in any national election. It was President Bush's victory in Ohio in the 2004 Presidential election by 118,600 votes (out of more than five million cast) which gave him the Buckeye State's 20 electoral votes and cemented his victory over John Kerry.

With Marc Dann (D-OH) refusing (as of this writing) to resign it will give the Ohio GOP an easy target to use as a reminder to voters that scandal and abuse-of-power are non-partisan.

Joe Hallett wrote in the Columbus Dispatch over the weekend:

"As John Wayne once said, 'Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.'

He also said, 'Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.'"

Republicans around the country should send notes of thanks to Democrat Marc Dann. He has single handedly put Ohio back in play in November.

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: May 6, 2008 - 10:55 PM EST
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Man, oh, man.

History really does escape the left-leaning among us.

I think it should be, accurately at least, Operation Chaos III. The current Operation Chaos as I understand it is in response to Democrat Party skulduggery shoehorning McCain into the position of Republican Nominee.

We need a lot more of this. It might help disenfranchise the twin major parties.

Can't hurt.
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Reply # 2
Date: May 6, 2008 - 7:04 AM EST
Actually
Ted Strickland is doing his best to ignore the meltdown in his own AG's office. He would like Dann to quit of his own accord, but Dann is (as of 0700 this AM) digging in his heels and basically saying, "Make me, MAAAAAAANNNN".

At the same time, Ohio's Secretary of State, Jennifer "Miss" Brunner (who more and more reminds me of Jerry Cornelius' old adversary), is still demanding that Boards of Elections statewide discard electronic voting machines- but since she refuses to go on record decertifying them (which only she can legally do), they can't legally get rid of them. Meanwhile, she continues to investigate everyone in the state who isn't a registered Democrat on the grounds that being anything else is inherently suspicious.

The whole thing reminds me irresistibly of Dennis Kucinich's reign as "Boy Mayor" of Cleveland back in the Seventies- when he surrounded himself with college-age types whose major "qualification" was their abject hatred of anyone who wasn't exactly like them.

Ted Strickland & Co. are a case in point of why you don't let adolescents have the keys. To the car, or to a city, or especially a state.


cheers

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