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Originally Posted by pan6467
The point is it was GOP people that brought to light the investigation and pushed hard making it more public than it needed to be.
What Taft did was nothing that the vast majority of politicians on both sides do, the problem is his own party turned him in...... not the Dems.
There is far more than just "a vague rumor" going around that the national GOP are trying to coax some GOP who are more vocally in favor with Bush to run against both Voinivich and Dewine.
There are facts that the GOP gave away an office just so Dewine's son would lose. (read the Cincinatti Enquirer and Post about the situation.)
It is highly possible the Ohio GOP is trying to get rid of anyone that may cause scandal by exposing it now rather than in major election years, or they could be finding sacrificial lambs to prevent further scandals affecting more people.
But even Voinivich's and Dewine's possible replacements are being reamed.... so where is the benefit to anyone in this except the Dem party?
It just makes no sense, weaken your own party and run the risk of losing the state?
Usually when you when you aim to destroy someone in your own party, you don't do so at destroying the whole party..... and yet the GOP in Ohio is doing just that.
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I personally think the GOP being destroyed in Ohio is a bit of hyperbole, but that's not what I want to address.
Essentially, you are trying to make Bush out to be some sort of diabolical hatchet man because some governmental corruption was exposed. But I have no doubt that if Dems had broke this story, you would be here saying how Bush was trying to cover for people in Ohio who helped to get him elected.
As an outside observer, this seems little more than political housecleaning. Rather than risk some damaging revelations later, they are just flushing the whole group out. I see Bush having absolutly nothing to do with this.