Smack! Take that Ken Blackwell

[MelissaB]

Ohio governor

Petro's steady hand and sober approach to government would be far preferable to Blackwell's bluster and gimmickry
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Rarely have this state's Re publican voters been con fronted with a more stark choice than the one they will make in the May 2 primary for governor.

Attorney General Jim Petro and Secretary of State Ken Blackwell are both popular officeholders well known to Ohio voters. But of the two, Petro has the superior body of public work. He would make the better governor.

If the goal of this race were to produce provocative ideas, creative rhetoric and celebrity endorsements, Blackwell, 58, would be invincible. He is the superior politician. He mines the veins of populism as adroitly as any Ohio politician in memory, while simultaneously collecting national GOP endorsements the way a toll collector gathers change.

But what Blackwell wants for Ohio would be disastrous for Ohio. His economic vision is premised on a flawed budgeting proposal that would damage the state and its thousands of political subdivisions. Blackwell's brand of leadership and past public positions strongly hint of sweeping degrees of intolerance and inflexibility.

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When the records and platforms of Ken Blackwell and Jim Petro are closely examined, there isn't the slightest doubt about which of the two deserves the Republican nomination for governor.

Blackwell is the better politician. Petro would be the better governor.


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[Donkeykick]

1. Man... I hope Petro can do this!

The other govenor--Tax?!--sucked!

[Kip Humphrey]

5. Aw, but Blackwell has his own personal vote tabulator in his office

with two-way communications with every county tabulator.

Advantage - Blackwell.

[Yogi]

2. I would rather see Strickland...

go against Petro than Blackwell too. Blackwell has the religious wacko backing him.

[Amaryllis]

3. SAy what?

"Attorney General Jim Petro and Secretary of State Ken Blackwell are both popular officeholders well known to Ohio voters."

are we just living in parallel universe? I thought Blackwell was vastly unpopular...or is this just MSM spin?

[MelissaB]

4. Well, maybe he's just vastly unpopular with people who care about election

intergity. :shrug: He may very well win the Republican nomination because of the "religious" vote. Think of Reformation Ohio and the Ohio Restoration Project.

[bleever]

6. "Blackwell's bluster and gimmickry" should rightfully entitle him

the best legal defense his tainted money can buy.

[PATRICK]

7. Who would turn on the cheat machines

for Petro? I think he would lose some edge there because Blackwell is not a self-effacing pragmatist.

What we forget about the massive tabulation fraud is how few trained fingers are on the switches, how few the inner circles. Who would be the SOS in Ohio in November anyway? A Blackwell loyalist or an honest man?

[gordianot]

8. First Katheryn Harris and now Blackwell.

Is there no GOP loyalty to the foot soldiers? Then the more you have to hide the more vulnerable you become.