http://georgia10.dailykos.com/NJ-Sen, OH-Sen: Running scared from radioactive Bush and Cheney
by kos
Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 10:39:58 PM PDT
I am fascinated by these Republican Senate candidates who greedily lap up the big dollars Bush and Cheney raise for them, yet are too afraid and unprincipled to stand by their party's leaders in public.
New Jersey:
In the biggest campaign fund-raiser yet on behalf of State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney traveled to New Jersey on Monday and praised Mr. Kean as someone with "the experience, the values and the vision to be a superb United States senator."
But there was one problem: Mr. Kean was a no-show.
Actually, Mr. Kean did show up at the event, which was held at the offices of the IDT Corporation in downtown Newark. But he did not make it until 6:15, roughly 15 minutes after Mr. Cheney's motorcade had left.........
(and in )Ohio:
........DeWine was in Florida fulfilling long-made plans to take his father, who is recovering from surgery, to spring-training baseball games, said Mike Dawson, a DeWine spokesman........