Jean Schmidt: top target in '08
From the Washington Post's "The Fix" blog
The Friday Line: Endangered House Freshmen
Welcome to the last Line of 2006!
Today The Fix takes a look at the 10 House seats most likely to change party control come November 2008.
* Ohio's 2nd District (R): Rep. Jean Schmidt's (R) demonstrated weaknesses as a candidate should counteract the Republican nature of this Cincinnati-area seat and make it a top target for Democrats in 2008. Dare we raise the possibility of a return run by Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett? Hackett ran surprisingly strongly against Schmidt in an August 2005 special election and was courted to run for the seat this past cycle after national party heavies talked him out of challenging Sen.-elect Sherrod Brown in the Democratic primary. Hackett rejected a 2006 House run but left the door open for a bid for political office down the line. Could 2008 be that next race? Vic Wulsin, who nearly beat Schmidt last month, is also mentioned as a potential challenger.
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Post a Comment*Worst. Post. Ever.
I understand the guy wanted to finish up at the office for 2006. Why not write a formulaic post about the House seats most "in jeopardy"? You don't have to do any research for that. Round up all the usual suspects: Foley's old seat, Ney's old seat, Delay's old seat, and that woman from Southern Ohio. Well, that "top target" has now won two primary elections and two general elections since mid-2005. The Schmidt train just keeps rolling!
Everyone who knows anything about Ohio's second district realizes Jean's only chance to lose will come in the spring of 2008.
Keep in mind that whoever the cut-and-run democrats run for this seat might not be facing her meanness in 08.
We (GOP) don't like her either.
Schmidt in jeopardy? Nah, she'll be fine. I expect her to win handily from here on out.
BTW, why did somebody appropriate my name?
Americans need to wake up about the worst administration ever:
Why the Bush Crime Family Wants Saddam Iced
December 28, 2006 at 08:48:36
Why the Bush Crime Family Wants Saddam Iced
by Wayne Madsen
Ironically, Saddam Hussein was more willing to provide the media with classified and sensitive information to expose the machinations of the United States than anyone in the George W. Bush administration or that of his father. It is very clear why the Bush administration wants Saddam dead and it has nothing to do with Saddam's alleged "crimes against humanity."
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Saddam's death sentence decided by an Iraqi government-appointed and U.S.-approved judge on Dec. 26 was never in doubt, considering the knowledge the former Iraqi leader possesses of past crimes of the Bush family and their coterie of friends and partners in providing Iraq with much of the biological and chemical weaponry used against the Kurds, Shi'as, and Iranians.
Saddam Hussein's willingness to provide the Western media with documents and other evidence of the connivance of George H. W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Frank Carlucci, and other Reagan-Bush administration principals was made apparent to this editor in the months preceding the March 2003 American attack on Iraq.
A senior Iraqi official contacted a British colleague of this editor and passed on a personal offer from Saddam Hussein to provide an "enterprising" Western journalist with the proof of America's sanctioning of Saddam's use of U.S.-supplied chem-bio weapons during the Iran-Iraq War, including Iraq's attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja. Also included in Saddam's "package" would be top secret information regarding his role as a longtime asset for the CIA, dating from his student days in Cairo.
The essence of the offer passed to this editor via the British interlocutor was that Saddam, aware that George W. Bush was going to attack Iraq, ordered his intelligence service to gather up all incriminating evidence that would show the world that Iraq's past "weapons of mass destruction" were provided by the Reagan and Bush I administrations.
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more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_wayne_ma_061228_why_the_bush_crime_f.htm
Schmidt and Chabot both belong in jail as accessories to Marcus Feisel's murder.
the only thing in jeopardy is oh-2. america is moving back to the center rejecting the bible thumping christo-fascists and its just a matter of time till mean jean is shown the door. until then her power and influence get weaker and weaker and the district suffers and suffers.
of course its always possible that the stay and die republicans might actually choose a respectable candidate.
Wow I actually thought this blog was about Jean Schmidt. Hey dude who posted on Iraqi. Plenty of other places for you to post your Anti-Bush stuff. Pretty lame to post it here.
Congresswoman Jean Schmidt, winner of four tough races over the past 19 months, has beaten Tom Brinkman, Bob McEwen (twice), Patrick DeWine, Paul Hackett and Victoria Wulsin. As the real WTF wrote, the Schmidt train keeps right on rolling. She has 2 years to shine like a new penny in the House, solidify her base and come out blazing against whomever her antagonists in the local GOP throw against her in a primary. Then if the Dems are as dumb as I think they are, they'll run some anti-war, pro-abortion, Hillary-loving, pro-gun control, pro-homosexual "marriage" tree-hugger or perhaps some pro-gun pseudo-Republican like Hackett, and Congresswoman Jean Schmidt will add another election victory to her total. Point is, she's not getting weaker; she's getting stronger. And frankly, if she runs into that idiot Murtha on the floor of the House, I hope she tells the jerk to take a long walk off a short pier.
In a district that President Bush won by 28 points, Mean Jean Schmidt has barely beaten flawed Democrats by 3 points and 1 point. She is underperforming the Republican vote by 25 points. Mean Jean's lackeys call this a sign of strength? If this was merely a Republican leaning district instead of a Safe R seat, Schmidt would have lost handily both times. Hackett would have beaten her with room to spare if he ran in 2006.
Mean Jean is the Democrats' best friend. She gives them a chance of winning a seat that is otherwise unattainable. Worse, Mean Jean has been so incompetent that the Republican Party has had to blow $2 million to hold what is supposed to be a safe seat. Her ineptness as a candidate is costing us seats elsewhere around the country, as that money should be going to Republicans in swing districts.
It's time for Republicans to get our act together. We could pick 20,000 different Republicans around here who could hold this seat easily. We can't afford anymore of Mean Jean Schmidt's incompetence.
Hamilton County is full of a bunch of Democrats.... No longer a GOP stronghold!
Pie Head Hackett says that he will definitely run again.
I don't like Jean Schmidt and I pretty much think she's an idiot - but, seriously, can womone tell why she has such a great following? She must have done something good to get this kind of support?
Frankly, given the negative media attention and the public scorn - she must have some pretty good credentials, respect or reputation.
Please enlighten me someone.
You have to learn to spell first.
....Please enlighten me someone.
The district is consumed with backwoods, rifle tote-ing, deliverance driving squealing pigs !
They have absorbed the wRong wingnut whacko elephant dung propaganda and willing to vote against their own economic interest !
Even slaves supported their masters !
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Congresswoman Jean Schmidt reminds me of the Energizer Bunny--she keeps on winning and winning and winning. Her Hamilton County antagonists, folks who haven't yet figured out the changed political demographics in the Second District, remind me of a broken record by whining over and over that she's weak, she can't win, she's a RINO, she's an embarrassment, just wait till the next election, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Anonymous at 12:02 am, 12/31, asks why Congresswoman Jean Schmidt has such a loyal following. I'll try to answer that to the best of my ability. She's pro-life, she's pro-traditional marriage, she's pro-strong defense, she's a true fiscal conservative, she's pro-tax cuts, she's for making the tax cuts permanent, she's anti-illegal immigration and pro-strong border security, she's in favor of transparency in political contributions, she's in favor of lobby regulation reform, she's for strenghtening the Social Security System and she knows that victory in Iraq and around the world in the war against the thugs and murderers of Islamic Jihadism is the only true path to peace. Is she perfect? No. But Congresswoman Jean Schmidt is the best candidate to come forward to represent the Second District, and she deserves our continued support and encouragement. The full two-year term she is about to begin will give her ample opportunity to show the voters of the Second District what she can do. Judge her performance in two years and vote accordingly. Meanwhile, understand that she has accomplished four election victories in 19 months in a national, state-wide and local political context that was pronouncedly anti-Republican. That shows toughness and strength as a candidate. We have the next two years to assess her ability as a Representative in the House.
Anonymous at 1:04 pm, 1/1/07, your hysterical blog entries make it clear to all why some folks refer to the Democrat party as the "Jackass party."
No “fiscal conservative” would EVER have voted to raise the inflation and unemployment rates like TLPB did last week. She will be paying for that vote come March ’08.
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