Conservative Views

Our Governor is an angry, radical old man:

Maybe if Fisher didn’t spend so many months avoiding Obama events, the President might actually know Lee’s from Ohio:

Questions are being raised about how Strickland-appointed Chief Justice Eric Brown was able to cash out at the Attorney General’s office with $20,874 in vacation pay.  What is likely is Brown worked “extra” comp time hours to cover vacation with the family and could still cash out vacation hours… as comp time can not be cashed out:

How did Brown rack up all of this extra time at a job that didn’t require more than 40 hours/week? Serious questions must be raised here, as it appears Brown does not embody the types of ethics voters should require of judges sitting on Ohio’s highest court.

Lee Fisher’s 3rd campaign manager, Lynne Bowman, the former Executive Director of Equality Ohio has worked tirelessly to expand the welfare state in the name of equal rights for homosexuals.

But apparently, in their first TV ad she had no problem signing off on discrimination against Asians.

30 seconds isn’t much time to convey a message, and consultants earn handsome salaries developing carefully crafted ads. Am I being too sensitive, or is Lee Fisher sending a clear signal to voters that if you look like the man or woman in this scene, he DOESN’T want you to have a job?

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Politifact:

Spend any time with an Ohio politician running for office this year and you’ll hear one common theme: Jobs.

The hard-working people of Ohio deserve jobs, they all say.

Ohio Treasurer Kevin Boyce is no different. On many of the platforms available to him — his state website, his campaign literature, a YouTube video, Twitter — Boyce is talking about the jobs his office has supported.

“Our most important work has been creating and retaining almost 55,000 Ohio jobs,” he told supporters in an Aug. 19 e-mail.[...]

When Ohio voters, some of whom are out of work, hear a candidate like Boyce take credit for bringing in new jobs and keeping existing jobs in their state, we doubt the concepts of indirect jobs and “person-years” enter their mind. His calculations give voters the wrong impression.

Further, the significance of Boyce’s role in many of the job-creating state programs is questionable. While the bonds his office sells help fund the program, Boyce has no say in how those programs are run. He is more of a rubber stamp.

We find significant exaggerations and mistakes in Boyce’s statement.

* To begin with, we think it’s a big leap for someone in his position to take credit for the job creation.

* It’s a major stretch to include in the indirect jobs.

* His methodology is suspect because many of the actual jobs would only be counted for one year.

In addition, Boyce’s statement in the YouTube video is not accurate; the time frame is incorrect. He meant to frame his accomplishment from January 2009 to the present, not “in the past year.” The evidence his office provided to support his claim dates back to January 2009, when he took office. Boyce’s campaign literature and Twitter feed also reference the longer time frame.

Strike a match. We rate the statement Pants on Fire.

Treasurer Boyce does occassionally create jobs, but to get them you must be a major investment bank who donates to his campaign, the offspring of Pari Sabety, or be physically present for his job announcements at local mosques.

The scary thing about this is that in the Cuyahoga County area, residents are still willing to give a guy like him 730 votes… That’s almost as messed up as a major state political party using his website as the main, unofficial outlet to promote their weak 2010 ticket:

District 7
95 of 95 precincts
Clark Broida (D) 518
Yvonne Conwell (D) 2,165
James D’Amico (D) 203
James Levin (D) 742
Victor Miller (D) 133
Michael Leroy Nelson Sr. (D) 1,361
Timothy Russo (D) 730
Dale Alan Smith (D) 191
Timothy Trogdon (D) 58
The primary winner will face Phyllis Lucia Crespo (R), who was unopposed Tuesday. Independents Jeff Kipp and Olga Sarbinowska also filed to run in November.

I guess now he can go back to picking on unsuspecting supporters of John McCain?

According to Frank Luntz, a pollster and brilliant political wordsmith, yes they are:

It takes a lot of chutzpah to campaign on “soaring deficits” when President Obama’s stimulus plan cost more than 7 years of an Iraq War and, thanks to Democrats, America is quickly approaching a 100% debt to GDP ratio. Even as recently as 2008, President Obama’s last minute, pre-election stimulus proposal of $300 billion might have sounded like an outrageous, unfathomable number.

Lee Fisher would like to remind you that Portman was part of an administration that oversaw an economy with a sky-high unemployment rate in Ohio of 6%.

Do you feel recovered?

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The truth is, Gov. Strickland and his supporters don’t mind the attack ad because of the major donations their owner, Malachi Mixon, makes to Republicans. Here is the editorial from the Lorain Morning Urinal:

The television commercial featuring the wife of a 22-year Invacare employee from Lorain whose job was outsourced to China appears to be a desperate political shot fired in the heat of a tough campaign between Gov. Ted Strickland and Republican challenger John Kasich.

The ad targets Invacare Corp., one of Lorain County’s largest companies, because Kasich sits on its board of directors. In 2006, Invacare sent about 200 Elyria jobs to China and Mexico in order to better compete with low-cost health-care equipment manufacturers located overseas.

Despite Strickland’s criticism, the strategy worked. Invacare was able to remain competitive, and it has since added jobs in Elyria and in its foreign operations.

Business leaders in Lorain County and across the state have sent letters to the governor supporting Invacare and demanding the commercial be taken off the air. The Strickland campaign says the ad was not a criticism of Invacare, but rather a condemnation of outsourcing and Kasich’s support of it.

That reasoning is hard to buy in light of the governor’s recent poll numbers.

A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Aug. 30 has Kasich ahead 47 percent to 39 percent over Strickland. At the beginning of August, Kasich’s lead was 45 percent to 42 percent. A Public Policy Polling survey conducted Aug. 27-29 has Kasich ahead 50 percent to 40 percent, compared to a June poll where Kasich was up by only two points. Both polls show majorities of voters have negative views of the governor.

Strickland’s plight doesn’t excuse besmirching the reputation of an important Lorain County employer that actively supports community causes and organizations.

When I liberal editorial board in an impoverished steel town even gets it right on outsourcing, Ted Strickland’s protectionist argument is officially irrelevant.

Unemployment is heading in the wrong direction, creeping up to 9.6%, further demonstrating that Obama's tax and spend and spend and spend plan has not worked. The President’s approval rating is tanking as a result - all in all, just another crappy month of Obamanomics.

The wordsmith Robert Gibbs answered a question from 'journalist' Bill Press about Obama's Christianity. Gibbs can't fathom where the idea of Obama not being a mainstream Christian could possibly come from (Jeremiah Wright?). Check out the audio from radio today.