Schmidt Will Again Be Target - Cinncinatti Post

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WASHINGTON - Looking ahead to next year's congressional elections, national Democrats see Ohio as the land of opportunity. But the Buckeye they're most eager to take on is Republican Congresswoman Jean Schmidt.

Mean Jean, as she's known to those who hate her, holds a special place on the Democrats' hit list for 2008. Her tendency to say anything, no matter how inflammatory or off the wall, her lackluster showing in last November's elections and her less-than-stellar fund-raising have convinced Democrats that next year they will send her home for good.

"She, of course, is one of our top targets - mostly because of who she is,'' said Ryan Rudominer, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"Obviously, it's not a very easy district for Democrats to win. But because of Jean Schmidt's time and time again voting in lockstep with President Bush and because of her wild antics in Congress, we see that seat as extremely winnable in 2008.''

Even Republicans think Schmidt is in trouble. Recently disclosed documents show that White House political guru Karl Rove has put the Miami Township congresswoman on a list of the most endangered House Republicans.

Republicans are so worried that they could lose Schmidt's seat that there's talk she might be challenged by someone in her own party.

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Link: http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070505/EDIT/705050306/1003



Dear Jean... You were a tool from the start, and now you are a discarded tool.

Have a nice life... maybe.

:D

:yourock:

How ya doing? Are things getting any better in MS? You are in my thoughts.

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troll

Rove is worried about the people the RNC computer announced to be winners in the buckeye state.

The election in Ohio should be interesting this time around.

Do the number of stars reflect the # of decades she has been spewing mean-ness? ( a little snark w your coffee)

I realize that this is rough on those folks in southern Ohio who've been praying for a decent representative who would work for their interests, but I can't help but wonder if leaving Mean Jean in place might be better for the country as a whole.

In a solidly Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, Jean Schmidt could serve as an example of the lamentable sort of person the GOP sent in to fill in Congressional seats (One upon a time, there were a lot more of this sort of person in place in Congress and they actually CONTROLLED the House of Representatives...). Leaving her in place while defeating some of the GOP's more competent hard rightists would help further lower the GOP's chances of being seen as a party competent to govern for a least the better part of a decade.

district are tired of being associated with that evil bitch.