NYT Reporting Hackett Out

Being treated like the report states, I can’t blame him for not wanting anything to do with Politics. Same thing with Fingerhut, if I read his bow-out statement correctly.

The ODP, in trying to save itself has screwed progressive Ohioans.

Between the Statehouse Bigots and the ODP, I am at a loss to choose which disgusts me more at this point.

I’ll disagree with you guys here. While Hackett was getting the shaft lately, he doesn’t strike me as the retiring kind, for reasons I stated in my blog.

We haven’t heard the last from Hackett. And while I’m not at all pleased with how this wound up, I’m not ready to throw in the towel. That’s how we ended up with Bush the first time. I’m not happy with how the situation’s been handled, to be sure. But either not voting or voting for DeWine (good G-d!) strikes me as chopping off your head to spite your nose.

This is BEYOND pissed off. I will work tirelessly to make sure Democrats across Ohio don’t vote for Sherrod Brown and instead vote for Mike DeWine. Then I will call Chuck Schumer’s office in D.C. and tell him not to meddle in Ohio politics again as I gloat. Believe it.

Americain, that is seriously unbalanced. I don’t blame you for being “beyond pissed off.” I am too. But I am even angrier with Mike DeWine and the administration he supports.

There are plenty of better democratic outlets than Sherrod Brown’s campaign to put my energy into. I’ll find one.

Based on your comments, most of you commenters don’t really strike me as the kind of folks who really give a shit what a guy who wasn’t a Hackett follwer thinks. But, hey, to use language that seems to permiate here, F-it, here goes any way.

When I ran into Sen Feingold in an airport in Milwaukee last month, he and his campaign manager were very curious to ask me about Hackett. Though I hadn’t yet had the chance to check PH out, I responded that I believed Hackett was the type of candidate that could generate excitement and appeal to a lot of people, and that is what is desperately needed.

I wanted PH to be on the ballot. Even though I hadn’t yet checked the guy out! I am a vet. 9 Years, commissioned officer, Army Guard. I am a sole surviving son from the Viet Nam war. My family is hugely military as in my wife, a high ranking lifer, my sister(s), WACs and Air Guard, and now my Daughter, air guard. My dad was navy WWII. PH is right in my freakin wheelhouse allright.

Now. Did party power people conspire against PH? I don’t doubt it for a second. Was this in the best interest of you and me. Nope. Does this suck and is this shitty. Yep. Is this freakin politics. Oh, yes it is. Did PH have to quit. Nope. Would it have been tougher for PH to carry on, probably, at least at first. Could he take his message directly to his rabid supporters and challenge all comers to include Dem power punchers. Know it. Did he. Nope. PH quit. PH QUIT.

That’s what’s perplexing. Again, Eric, I think he’s back in in a matter of oh about COB on filing deadline day here Thursday due the groundswell of support of Hack-o-maniacs all over Ohio. If so. It’s on, and I think, if he learns when not to be a dick so much on his stump speeches, as evidently he was on Saturday, he probably wins, barring some major damaging loose cannon, flipant decison making, or swiftboatable skeleton in the closet which I doubt exists.

But know guys that Sherrod Brown is a good Dem, a good man. To be pissed at him in this game called politics is misguided, no more than Sherrod should hold a grudge for the shitty things that PH was spewing to a crowd of Dems who were actually wanting to be impresed with PH. Because it’s politics, it’s like love and handgranades, just about anything goes.

If PH actually sticks to his word, what ever ones word means when it means different things on different days depending on the circumstances that arrise, and if he stays quitted, and on the outside, “with your voice when he has the microphone”, (hint, hint), and really doesn’t run. Well guys, welcome to life. It sucks sometimes. The dems who conspired against him were mistaken, as they often are. Way, way off. But PH quit. Time to run from the party and join the Nader brigade, whatever guys, really. Going Independent, great, that’ll work. Starting your own pissy progressive club, fine, hate all you want.

Defects and all, there is one way to stop this new Amercian facism whch takes the form of the Reepub machine circa 2006, and that’s by building a better Dem party. It’s the harder way to go, because you have to deal with so many issues and a-holes. But I can promise you whatever happens to PH, he runs and wins as a Dem, or as an “I”, or loses. He’ll be a one hit wonder at best for progressives on the whole, and come 2008, we’ll wish that the Dem party could keep the next winger out of controlling our government. But if it contines to be diluted, because too many of us run away instead of committing to making it better, we all continue to lose.

Heard PH on Scultz. Different tune. Not so bitter and PO’d at 1700 hours. Interesting?

If PH stays out, I am sorry for your loss. Not sarcasm, really. I know it must suck. I wasn’t a follower, didn’t even get a chance to be, but I would have been checking him out asap, guaranteed, but I am bummed that he’s out. So sorry guys. It sucks. Do what you can to make a difference and whatever you do, don’t quit.