Reply #9: Don't be so sure, in this case at least. [View All]

Most of the Ohio GOP leadership hates Ken Blackwell. They're very comfortably Moderate/Right-Centrists, while he's Ultra-Right. He'd rock their boat WAY too much, were he to become Governor, and they won't have it. I think it says something that the Republican House Speaker in the state legislature actually went as far as to put together a multi-million dollar smear campaign against Blackwell, though he himself got busted down by his own scandals before it could launch.

Also, don't be fooled by Petro in his apparent defense of Blackwell. He's only wearing the outward mask of GOP solidarity. Besides, if Blackwell gets nailed by voting scandals before the moderate Ohio GOPers can destroy him in the primaries, Blackwell becomes the IMAGE of the whole Ohio Republican Party. In other words, they will ALL look like bungeling, criminal idiots.