One less liberal Democrat in Congress. One less batcrap crazy on the D side. One less Dennis the Menace.
Ohio is my home state and Toledo is the town where I grew up. It’s the home to some of the most ruthless political operatives in America, and they obviously worked overtime to push Marcy Kaptur to a primary win over Dennis Kucinich.
Dennis made his displeasure known in his concession speech last night in Cleveland:
“I would like to be able to congratulate Congresswoman Kaptur, but I do have to say that she ran a media campaign in the Cleveland media market that was utterly lacking in integrity with false statements, half truths, [and] misrepresentations. I hope that is not the kind of representation she would provide to this community. And I don’t think the people of Toledo have any idea of the kind of campaign that was run up in the Cleveland area,” he said.
Oh, yes, they do, Dennis.
I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Hundreds of yard signs mysteriously disappearing in the dead of night. Thousands of windshields papered with tabloid-style flyers. Union thugs shouting down candidate speeches. And that’s just in the Democrat races.
Lucas County Democrats literally divide themselves into Hatfields and McCoys. They call them the A-Team and B-Team. These people eat their young.
This Thunderdome primary was set up by some inspired redistricting by Ohio Republicans who drew a wafer-thin congressional district along the coast of Lake Erie that pitted Kaptur and Kucinich in mortal combat. And Marcy’s Mafia delivered Lucas County by…wait for it…by a whopping 22,269 votes to the 870 votes garnered by Denny Downer.
Look at those numbers again. Kaptur got 96% in Lucas County. Vladamir Putin wishes he had those kind of results.
So now Marcy moves on and Dennis…well, Dennis may be wishing he’d followed up on his threat to move to Washington state to run there. And the best news of all?
Marcy, meet “Joe the Plumber.” He’s your November nightmare.
March 7th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
[…] The Best News Coming Out of the Ohio Primary? One less liberal Democrat in Congress. One less batcrap crazy on the D side. One less Dennis the Menace. Ohio is my home state and Toledo is the town where I grew up. It’s the home to some of the most ruthless political operatives in America, and they obviously worked overtime to push Marcy Kaptur […] […]
March 7th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Don’t start celebrating too soon. There were several stories online that may or may not have been factual saying that Dennis was considering moving to Washington to run for an open seat there. After that was reported, a group of his supporters from his Presidential race contacted Kucinich to urge him to run out here. So you could wind up with Dennis representing you if you are not careful.