How bad do the Dems want to take out Chabot?

This much:

Over the past 12 days, in the mailbox of one independent voter in Cincinnati's Ward 12, no less than nine mail pieces from the Ohio Democratic Party and the Democratic Congressional campaign committee have appeared. Each one of them is an attack piece on Rep. Steve Chabot.

Five attack pieces focus gasoline prices, calling Chabot the tool of Big Oil. One shows an oil tanker with "S.S. Steve Chabot" stencilled on the bow. One has Chabot dressed up in a rigger's overalls, wearing a hard hat, in front of oil derricks. Another has two tourists sitting on lawn chairs on the National Mall, looking up at a Washington Monument surrounded by oil derricks.

Mail pieces #6 and #7 hit Chabot for voting with the Bush administration 92 percent of the time.

Number #8 is on Iraq. Number #9 is a "more of the same" or "new direction" appeal.

In the same period of time, in the same mailbox, not one pro-Chabot or anti-John Cranley has appeared.