Cincinnati Enquirer endorses Blackwell and DeWine

[theHandpuppet]

Should this come as a surprise to anyone? Same ol' Enquirer.
:eyes:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061022/EDIT01/610220344
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061022/EDIT01/610220343

And at the same time they are crowing about Cincy being selected as the site for the next NAACP convention.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061022/BIZ01/610220335

[Kolesar]

1. Blackwell? There goes their credibility

Credibility...as it was.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. The Enquirer? Credibility? In the same sentence?

When I lived there, I used to refer to the Enquirer as "The Daily Newsletter of the Hamilton County Republican Party."

Give the choice between a Democrat and a bucket of shit, they'd endorse the bucket.

[Kolesar]

4. I thought the Enquirer was the newsletter of Procter & Gamble

That is how it was related to me, here, in the other corner of the state.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. Make that "Chiquita Brands" and you'd be right...

While the Enquirer kowtows to the entire corporate community, their relationship with the Lindner family is particularly craven.

[theHandpuppet]

6. ROFL!!!

You are SO right. Anyone who's truly familiar with the Cincinnati Enquirer would recognize that your words are not the least bit exaggeration. Hell, if Kim Dong Il or Saddam Hussein had a (R) after ther name the Enquirer would endorse them.

[DFW]

3. Their endorsement of Blackwell.....

....is one of the most unflattering endorsements I have ever read. It could just as well have been called, "We endorse an axe murderer because Ohio needs a man who knows how to wield an axe."

Their endorsement of DeWine is at least coherent.

Neither candidate will win without electoral fraud. Unfortunately, Blackwell
holds a PhD in the field.

[blueknight]

5. i live in northern ky

right across the river from cincy. a good friend of mine works in the pressroom for the paper. he said they are the most republican bunch of bastards you could ever work for

[theHandpuppet]

7. Well, their article regarding the nod for the NAACP convention...

... was couched in terms of dollars and cents, not in the potential influence upon a city racked by racial tensions. The good ol' GOP bottom line.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061022/BIZ01/610220335

[OzarkDem]

8. Flat earth society

How embarrassing for them.

[saltpoint]

10. When the editorial board realized that Himmler and Goebels weren't

going to be on the ballot, they settled for the straight Republican ticket.

When in Cincinnati, buy and read the POST instead.

[theHandpuppet]

11. The Cincinnati Post has also endorsed DeWine

No endorsement yet for Governor. I thought the Enquirer and Post were owned by the same corp? Doesn't seem like their politics differ much from those of the Enquirer, at least to me. :shrug:

[saltpoint]

12. Hi, Handpuppet. Sorry to hear of the POST's endorsement of DeWine.

I hope they rebound with the gubernatorial race and endorse Strickland, at least.

The recent polls show Mean Jean still ahead, but Dr. Wulsin within possible striking distance. That's the Ohio race that has me glued to the web these days. O how nice it would be to have Dr. Wulsin in that seat and not Schmidt.

[theHandpuppet]

13. I'm with you

I can't believe anyone in their right mind would still vote for Schmidt. Of course, she will still get the endorsements from the Cincy papers because they'd endorse an outright Nazi before they'd endorse even the most qualified of Democrats. I'm originally from Scioto County (the eastern end of District 2, with four blue rural counties), which will undoubtedly go for Brown, Strickland and Wulsin, but we are always outnumbered by the neofascists in western D2 (Hamilton, Warren and Clermont counties). It's disheartening.

[saltpoint]

14. I hear you on all points, and you nailed it and nailed it good.

You mention Warren County.

My god what are those people thinking?

Well, no matter what, my fingers are crossed for the best possible outcome.

[roseBudd]

16. Enquirer is Gannett, Post is Scripps

[Dinger]

15. Their Endorsements Won't Turn The Tide

We have to keep it up and work hard - Work like we're the one's who are behind.

[roseBudd]

17. Comment about the Blackwell endorsement directly to editors...

This is the editorial board blog:

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/forum/

Sinking in the political mud

I hope the story on the front page of Sunday's Enquirer about how low politicians are willing to go finally wakes them up to the damage they are doing to the system -- but I don't have much confidence that it will. Most candidates and their paid tacticians seem to think this garbage sells.

We've actually had some politicians tell the Editorial Board that they have "no choice" but to hit back with negative ads because that's much more popular with their supporters than simply ignoring an attack and trying to put out a positive message. They should read the pages of comments on the Enquirer's Web site that accompanies today's story. Maybe then they would see that they do have a choice.

Perhaps the scurrilous attacks by Ken Blackwell against Ted Strickland will be a tipping point. As Sunday's editorial noted, Blackwell had strong ideas in this race (pretty much the only ideas), but he abandoned his strategy and dropped talk of his ideas to grab a fistful of mud when he thought the voters weren't paying attention to the important things he had to say.

I've known Ken Blackwell as an independent-minded politician for more than 25 years, always willing to stand or fall on the strength of his positions. I'm ashamed that he has taken this cowardly approach because he feels his positions aren't going to sustain him. As the editorial stated, Blackwell has the better ideas about what a governor should do. But he is not a better person.

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[beaconess]

18. No surprise at all . . .