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Imagine we lived in a world where a high-profile paper was owned by a bizarro cult-leader - a convicted felon, that claimed he was the Messiah.
Such a paper does exist, and this week it ran a column touting Ohio's own Ken Blackwell for the position of GOP chairman.
The author, Terence Jeffrey, enumerates three points in Blackwell's favor:
- "Mr. Blackwell knows how to win elections."
- "Mr. Blackwell knows how to win Ohio"
- "Mr. Blackwell is a battle-tested, rock-solid Reagan Republican"
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but just two scant years ago, Ken Blackwell lost the Ohio governor's race by 24 points.
He was battle-tested in an Ohio election, and he lost the battle by eye-popping margins, in an embarrassing fashion. To quote the stridently Republican editorial page of the Dispatch, from their endorsement of Mr. Blackwell's opponent, Ted Strickland:
Blackwell has proclaimed that he is the candidate of bold ideas. That's true. But his ideas alarm a significant portion of the electorate, including many in his own party. Boldness is not the test of leadership; sound judgment is.
