So here’s something not one of you ever thought you’d hear me say, but I just decided: I’m definitely voting for DeWine in November.
Why? Mostly because I believe Mike DeWine has the courage of his own convictions — right or wrong, agree with him or not, I at least think he has some principles. Sherrod Brown, however, apparently frightened that the GOP might paint him as a weak-kneed soft-on-terror liberal in the upcoming election, voted in favor of the detainee-and-torture bill mentioned below.
Voting for a bad, bad piece of legislation just so you can improve your chances of getting elected is pretty much my definition of the worst kind of politician, no matter what their individual politics are. (And what, hoping that you get a majority in November that would let you undo whatever piss-poor decision you made in September? That’s so dumb I don’t even know where to begin with that one.)
Also note that gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland apparently didn’t vote on this bill at all. Not happy with that, either, but you know, at least it wasn’t a complete rejection of the ideals you profess to have.
Kevin Drum has more here. Frankly, I’d seen in the DISPATCH earlier today that there were actually 34 Democrats who voted for the bill in the House yesterday, but it never even occurred to me that in this most heated of Senate races this year, Brown would have been one of them. Idiot.
