Summing up Ken Blackwell

[BobcatJH]

In today's Cleveland Plain Dealer, columnist Brent Larkin sums up the desperate, low-rent, corrupt Ken Blackwell, a man destined to be remembered as a classless opportunist and, in a matter of days, a loser:

As he plumbs the depths of the Statehouse sewer system in a des perate search for sludge that might stick to his opponent, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell might want to spend a moment contemplating how he wants to be remembered.

At the rate he's going, Blackwell is exactly 14 days away from being memorialized as a classless loser who selfishly endangered the entire Republican ticket by engaging in despicable, 11th-hour campaign tactics that didn't gain him six votes.

If Blackwell had a conscience, it would bother him greatly that history will treat his campaign for governor with such contempt.

Then again, if Blackwell had a conscience, he wouldn't be gay-baiting the next governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland. He wouldn't be suggesting that Strickland doesn't care about sexually abused children. And he surely wouldn't be running around southwest Ohio with Fox News' mindless, right-wing nut-job, Sean Hannity, trying to drum up support that doesn't exist for his doomed candidacy.

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Blackwell's tactics might well push the entire Republican ticket over the edge. And if that happens because others whose names appear on that GOP sample ballot cower in silence, they'll all deserve what they get.

[Doctor_J]

1. He wants to be remembered as a filthy party hack

That may not get him elected, but will certainly gain him entrance into Rove inner circle, where he can continue to lie, cheat, steal, and generally act sub-human, AND get paid handsomely for it.