This is my Senator. Makes me want to cry. I have met the man and he is very personable. But his positions I find intolerable. Personally I don’t think he will run again and if he does he may do a “DeWine”. Perhaps we will get some real conservative Senator. Too bad we don’t have a Senator like Congressman Jim Jordan (yet another shameless plug for an excellent conservative in office.
The embarrassment hit an all time high (low?) with his conversation with Hannity which can be seen on Hot Air.
A travesty. He’s the personification of the bill’s ills: ignorant of and incurious about its weaknesses, confused as to what’s in it and what isn’t (per his comments about Kay Bailey Hutchison’s amendment), and worst of all brimming with arrogance at the nerve of conservative proles to be angry about this issue. This clip ought to push those confidence-in-Congress poll numbers into single digits, assuming they’re not there already.
Right Angle has this stinging rebuke.
I could not believe that this man was a U.S. senator – and worse, I voted for him! This tells you the quality of Democrats in this state because RINOvitch was head-and-shoulders better and won in a landslide over Eric Fingerhut in 2004. Needless to say that the quality of Democrats hasn’t improved, which says more about the Ohio electorate in ‘06- but I regress.
GV has now become an iconic figure in the illegal immigration debate, representing the arrogance of the pro-amnesty supporters from the President on down. His “interview†was so embarassing, his ignorance so profound, his demeanor so childish, that his performance may have actually killed the amnesty bill by virtue of other senators rushing to dissociate themselves from him.
I don’t think I’m overstating it when I say that any illusions GV may have had of running for re-election in 2010 were dashed today. All any challenger would have to do is continually replay this blithering at every campaign stop and make it a TV ad with the trailer: “Do you want this idiot in the senate for 6 more years?†I doubt that anyone could vote for him with a clear conscience.
Wow. There is certainly no Dem I want to see in his place but I swear there are times I think we have one already there.
