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Hey Folks,
Just a thought bubbling around in the Uke Man’s head.
A few days ago Bryan Flannery, a little-known candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, came out with unsubstantiated charges about the front-runner, Ted Strickland, supposedly having once hired a pedophile to work in his office. Flannery also wanted to know why Strickland had “gone to Rome with that man.”
The charges were quickly rebutted by Strickland who claimed that similar charges had been made long ago by an opponent in a very heated campaign, that the aide had denied any such orientation, and that no one had brought any evidence forward.
After Flannery’s big, one day splash, those charges are not being heard – I can’t even find them on the net.
OK, but what happens next?
Hot on the heels of this mud, Bill O’Reilly, Joe Scarborough, and other national, right-wing, talking-point flunkies “discover” the evil Judge Conner and call for his impeachment because he is soft on . . .
Yep!! PEDOPHILES!!!!!!!
OK, but what happens next?
Well, Governor Daft and guber-natorial candidate Petro start puffing up, and foaming at the mouth – “impeach the judge!”
Curiously, candidate Blackwell lays low, concedes the floor of righteousness to the lame duck and the lame candidate. This seems out of character since Blackwell is the God&Jesus, revivalist, family-values, gay-bashing candidate.
Hmmmmm . . . So what to make of it?
Well, here’s what the Uke Man thinks might be going on.
Kkkarl Rove has his finger in this.
It is in the nut-case right-wing’s interest to, in the end, get nut-case right-wing Blackwell elected rather than a moderate Democrat. The Doughboy has decided – quite sensibly – that Blackwell will kick Petro’s ass in the primary – there are just too many fearful, hateful, blindly religious people in this great state of ours; Ohio where “With God All Things Are Possible.”
Now Flannery, a former Notre Dame football player (along with his running mate) may have come up with the slur on his own, been tipped off by a Republican plant, or be a part of the whole plan; but it doesn’t matter.
Kkkarl probably has had “Strickland – pedophile slur” written on one of his infamous debating cards for years. When the Gipper’s boys made the accusation (for whatever reason), the fair and balanced media dogs were set loose, and in turn fueled such a vicious Republican feeding frenzy, that even the Columbus Dispatch was repelled, comparing their fellow GOP’s to a “lynch mob.”
OK, but what happens next?
As quickly as it all erupted, it seems to have disappeared. Now Taft and Petro are lying low. There’s nothing coming from Flannery, and the legislature is no longer interested in impeachment.
As it turns out, the judge in question behaved in much the same way as many judges have around the state. So, why pick on him?
Well, he was in the wrong place at the right time for the seed to be planted for sprouting during the general election. I can hear Blackwell now:
“These aren’t MY allegations. They were made by his own party, the party that looked the other way when children suffered.”
Any assertion that the Republican party too had been “soft on pedophilia” will be turned aside by scapegoating Taft and Petro who were suckered into the maelstrom. Blackwell will claim THEY are the problem with the party – he is the NEW Republican party!
Just a thought.
Just a thought bubbling around in the Uke Man’s head.
A few days ago Bryan Flannery, a little-known candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, came out with unsubstantiated charges about the front-runner, Ted Strickland, supposedly having once hired a pedophile to work in his office. Flannery also wanted to know why Strickland had “gone to Rome with that man.”
The charges were quickly rebutted by Strickland who claimed that similar charges had been made long ago by an opponent in a very heated campaign, that the aide had denied any such orientation, and that no one had brought any evidence forward.
After Flannery’s big, one day splash, those charges are not being heard – I can’t even find them on the net.
OK, but what happens next?
Hot on the heels of this mud, Bill O’Reilly, Joe Scarborough, and other national, right-wing, talking-point flunkies “discover” the evil Judge Conner and call for his impeachment because he is soft on . . .
Yep!! PEDOPHILES!!!!!!!
OK, but what happens next?
Well, Governor Daft and guber-natorial candidate Petro start puffing up, and foaming at the mouth – “impeach the judge!”
Curiously, candidate Blackwell lays low, concedes the floor of righteousness to the lame duck and the lame candidate. This seems out of character since Blackwell is the God&Jesus, revivalist, family-values, gay-bashing candidate.
Hmmmmm . . . So what to make of it?
Well, here’s what the Uke Man thinks might be going on.
Kkkarl Rove has his finger in this.
It is in the nut-case right-wing’s interest to, in the end, get nut-case right-wing Blackwell elected rather than a moderate Democrat. The Doughboy has decided – quite sensibly – that Blackwell will kick Petro’s ass in the primary – there are just too many fearful, hateful, blindly religious people in this great state of ours; Ohio where “With God All Things Are Possible.”
Now Flannery, a former Notre Dame football player (along with his running mate) may have come up with the slur on his own, been tipped off by a Republican plant, or be a part of the whole plan; but it doesn’t matter.
Kkkarl probably has had “Strickland – pedophile slur” written on one of his infamous debating cards for years. When the Gipper’s boys made the accusation (for whatever reason), the fair and balanced media dogs were set loose, and in turn fueled such a vicious Republican feeding frenzy, that even the Columbus Dispatch was repelled, comparing their fellow GOP’s to a “lynch mob.”
OK, but what happens next?
As quickly as it all erupted, it seems to have disappeared. Now Taft and Petro are lying low. There’s nothing coming from Flannery, and the legislature is no longer interested in impeachment.
As it turns out, the judge in question behaved in much the same way as many judges have around the state. So, why pick on him?
Well, he was in the wrong place at the right time for the seed to be planted for sprouting during the general election. I can hear Blackwell now:
“These aren’t MY allegations. They were made by his own party, the party that looked the other way when children suffered.”
Any assertion that the Republican party too had been “soft on pedophilia” will be turned aside by scapegoating Taft and Petro who were suckered into the maelstrom. Blackwell will claim THEY are the problem with the party – he is the NEW Republican party!
Just a thought.