Dispatch Dumps Dubya (Columbus Ohio)

[tlpal]

In the 88 years since then, the Dispatch hasn't endorsed a single Democrat for president.

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Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts appears poised to join President Wilson this October on the list of Dispatch-endorsed Democrats.

Kerry's positions on health care, private-school vouchers and a host of other issues position the likely Democratic nominee well to the left of the Dispatch editorial board. But he's got one big thing going for him: He's running against President Bush. And as the Dispatch made clear last week with three scathing editorials in eight days, it doesn't like President Bush.

"TOTALLY RECKLESS" was the headline of Sunday's lead editorial, in which the Dispatch disapprovingly linked the Bush administration's domestic and military policies.

"Having misled the nation on the drug benefit and Iraq, the president now asks the nation to believe that he is sincere about reducing the massive deficits he has run up. Unveiling his $2.4 trillion budget for 2005, he promises to cut the deficit in half by 2009," the editorial said. "But even here, Bush is not being forthright. The 2005 budget proposal doesn't even include the estimated $50 billion needed to continue military and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq."

"It is becoming increasingly difficult to have any confidence in the fiscal policy of this administration."

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The Columbus Dispatch is as repug as they come! The base is deteriorating.

[bif]

1. The tide is turning!

More proof!

[aquart]

2. This is happening so fast I'm on the verge of panic.

I'm becoming terrified Bush will get dumped at the convention.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Nah.

The GOP goons wouldn't admit that their boy is in such trouble ... Everything is fine. Bush is a popular wartime president. Nothing to see here. Keep moving.

[damnyankee2601]

6. Well let's look at that carfully.

If they dump Shrub, who will they replace him with? The Republican party is not exactly flush with charismatic moderates right now. Plus, their Kristian Koalition Kontrollers wouldn't tolerate a moderate anyway. Maybe they could run Guiliani, but his personal life is a disaster and the redneck vote would hate him just because he's from New York.

It might actually be fun to watch the Republican party implode like the Whigs did just before the Civil War. I always figured the Democrats would implode first, but Shrub has done us a great favor by giving us someone to uniformly despise.

[Strelnikov_]

7. The Powers Have Decided He's Gone

There is no other explanation for the media, in the last 3 weeks, to suddenly discover the incompetence of the current administration.

And that is what worries me. If the power behind the throne is willing to give up their puppet regime, it shows they are worried about the direction of the country, and that the iceberg may be closer than we think.

As Jon Stewart said the other night after showing a clip of the WH press corps grilling of McClellan, "Where the F*** have you guys been the last 3 years". I'm sure right about now McClellan is asking himself "What did Ari know, and when did he know it?"

[saltpoint]

3. Hurray for the Columbus Dispatch!

Bush-Cheney is in trouble in Ohio this time. They didn't win it by all that much in 2000, and Gore didn't even compete there.

Bush thinks he's gliding down the highway but in fact he's slip-slidin' away.

(Sorry, Paul.)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. That's where I live. I'm speechless.

I gotta admit I don't read that shitty paper because of what they're about. But it's nice to know this.

[Barad Simith]

8. KICK - this is starting to get interesting (nt)

[JoFerret]

9. Tipping point approaching

But let's not get over confident. Millions of dollars can produce a lot of sludge.

[Blue-Jay]

10. Wow!

I think I'll go get me a Columbus Dispatch on the way home. First time for everything.

[tigereye]

11. That is shocking and encouraging

Never expected our neighbors to the West (the right leaning ones, anyway) to feel so strongly Anti-*. It is hopeful to see that some people may see that the Emperor is in fact not wearing any clothes!!!

[LiberalFighter]

12. WOW!! Really?? Not one Democrat in 88 years? WOW again

[Lorien]

13. "The Columbus Disgrace"

Is what my Dem Dad always calls them. I'm sure I'll be hearing from him this week on the "disgraces" conversion; he keeps telling me that they're tougher on * these days, but I've had a hard time believing that. Guess dad has been right all along!

[yellowcanine]

14. Holy Cow - that part of Ohio is Pubbie

all the way. WTF is going on? I know I must guard against irrational exuberance but if the Dems can grab Ohio in November, it is going to be a long election night for the Shrubistas. Shrub might have another attack of the killer pretzel.