"Ken Blackwell leads GOP hopes"

[TexasLawyer]

Here's some of the GOP payback that Blackwell gets for "helping deliver" Ohio. God, this makes me ILL. I didn't link up to Townhall, but it is easy enough to find if you want to.

Ken Blackwell leads GOP hopes

Feb 19, 2006
by George Will


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Maryland borders Pennsylvania, which borders Ohio, which borders Michigan. In that swath of America, extending 950 miles from the shores of the Chesapeake Bay to the shores of Lake Superior, this year's politics could produce a remarkable quartet of Republican victories -- black U.S. senators from Maryland (Michael Steele, who now is lieutenant governor) and Michigan (Keith Butler, a former Detroit city councilman, currently pastor of a suburban church with a congregation of 21,000), and black governors in Pennsylvania (Lynn Swann, the former Pittsburgh Steeler) and Ohio (Ken Blackwell, currently secretary of state).

Blackwell is particularly noteworthy because he has had the most varied political career -- a city councilman at 29, mayor at 31, national chairman of Steve Forbes' 2000 presidential campaign. And because he is the most conservative.

Polls suggest that Blackwell, 57, can win the Republican primary May 2. National party leaders think that only he can keep the governorship Republican, because the state GOP establishment has been hostile to him, and Ohio voters are now robustly hostile to it.

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He appeals to blacks by being black, and because many blacks are cultural conservatives: George W. Bush won 16 percent of Ohio's black vote in 2004. In Blackwell's three statewide races, he has received between 30 percent and 40 percent of the black vote. If in November he duplicates that, he will win, and Democrats in many blue states will blanch because if their share of the black vote falls to 75 percent, their states could turn red.

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[AX10]

1. Blackwell will steal it, of course.

Also, Lynn Swann and Mike Steele are going to nowhere. Ben Cardin will be the next Senator from Maryland and Ed Rendell will continue as the Governor of Pennsylvania.

[Innocent Smith]

2. could see that coming

You could see Governor Blackwell coming back in November of 2004 when he was getting so much face time on televistion after the election. Don't be surprised to see him running for President in 2012 or 2016 depending upon how 2008 goes.

[aquart]

3. Didn't think he sold his soul for cheap, did you?

[applegrove]

4. Link?

[TexasLawyer]

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[applegrove]

10. Cool!! I'm with the mods. Whatever they do. Ignore me!!!!

[Ecumenist]

5. This is man's a waste of skin and bones

I wish there was a way to vote in Ohio, (I live on the west coast). I am black and I have to say that we may be more so culturally conservative BUT we're neither stupid nor retarded. We have eyes, ears and brains that allow us to deduce rationally. We have seen what has happened in the years that these criminals have been in charge and do you really believe that people have forgotten standing in the rain and turned away from voting in November04? People are more determined than ever to toss this lot out of office. We talk amongst ourselves and we are in no way monolithic. You may listen to the pulpit in church but you will vote in the way you need to to save your family, livelihood and country. Don't buy this treacle. Blackwell has the same chance of being elected,(fairly) as I do being vasectomised,(I'm female). I have family in Columbus and I can testify that there are strategies being discussed to derail this mess Blackwell. To a large extent, we tend to be harder on other african americans who collude with hostile entities to undermine our communities.:mad: :evilgrin:

[TexasLawyer]

6. Thanks, Ecumenist

I feel less ill now. Hopefully Kenneth Blackwell will never achieve another political office (other than dog catcher).

[Ecumenist]

8. Please....

You give the man too much credit... If Black people were voting in a race that included him and a brain damaged moose, he couldn't get elected villiage idiot...:hi: I have come to the concclusion that these pieces are put out to convince us that there's no hope. Don't believe it.

[Amaryllis]

11. But he can get himself elected the same way Bush took OH, with rigged

central tabulators and voting machines.

[Ecumenist]

12. Trust me when I say.....

People aren't stupid and they aren't about to get screwed again. Despite what the media tried to portray us as, African americans AREN'T stupid. Couldn't have survived the things we've had to if we were. The republicans are in for SEEE-PRIZE if they think that they can pull this crap again. Trying to pull the same crap again will be akin to pushing a car uphill with a rope. That has not forgotten, trust me...:patriot:

[Amaryllis]

13. I trust that it hasn;t been forgotten, but I do not trust that they can be

prevented from doing it again. Do you know something we don't know?

Do you know about BLackwell having two way communication between his office and all the central vote tabulators at the county level? HOw do you propose to fight that when you can't even get an honest recount in OH? This has nothing to do with African Americans being portrayed as stupid, or being stupid or not being stupid, it has to do with a system that is so corrupt and so rigged that unless something changes drastically, how are they going to be prevented from doing it again? If they have control of the computers that count the votes, not to mention the voting machine source code as well, which they do, just how do you propose to change or challenge that?

[Ecumenist]

14. Yes, I know about it all....

I about ground my teeth out of the gums, I was so pissed. I have a lot of family in Columbus and Reynoldsburg. I heard everything and then some. The difference is that people know what they have up their sleeves, (remember that in 2000, this evil was pretty much confined to Florida) and will do what they have to do to overcome it. Do you know if absentee voting is allowed in Ohio?

[buff2]

9. God,I can't stomach that lying thieving snake

That's typical of repukes,though. Support the lowest of the low and then call it "morality and family values". :puke:

[nicknameless]

15. Ugh. George Will tripe.

Ohio is admittedly a mess, but I'd rather wait and read what Fitrakis has to say about it.