Back In Ohio

I don’t know how many people are following the corruption scandals in Ohio, but they are doozies — just flat out graft in the highest reaches of the Ohio Republican party. It’s one reason why Paul Hackett may just have a chance to win. Combine that with the outrages documented in “What Went Wrong In Ohio” and the GOP is becoming so discredited as an institution that its brand is suffering.

Jean Schmidt has been running from the Ohio bigwigs implicated in the scandal as fast as her bandy little legs will carry her. But it appears that in these last couple of days her lies about knowing some of the major players are unravelling. Swing State project has the story.

In another display of the GOP’s irony and history impaired lameness, the Washington Post reports today why the national GOP decided to throw a bunch of last minute money at Schmidt:

“He called the commander in chief a son-of-a-[expletive],” said NRCC spokesman Carl Forti. “We decided to bury him.”

I suppose he took off his shoe and pounded on the table too.

In many ways, they really are “Red” states.

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