The Cleveland Plain Dealer today endorsed Sen. Mike DeWine (R) for the U.S. Senate seat in Ohio.
DeWine nailed the difference between himself and his opponent: When DeWine votes against his party, he leaves it to move to the center; when Brown does so, he moves to the Democrats' left. Brown voted against President Clinton's trade agreements; DeWine voted against President Bush's positions on oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, gun control, the minimum wage and - in becoming part of the "Gang of 14" that insisted on a sensible approach to the selection of federal judges - exhibited the kind of bipartisanship that most of America so desperately wants to see in Washington.
The paper qualified their support for DeWine. While they endorse him, they suggest he act more like a Democrat:
...he must raise his voice and use his Senate influence to help shake moderate congressional Republicans from their unaccountable and irresponsible stupor over Iraq...
They must mean that silly insistence that we not abandon Iraq to the fascist terrorists before they are prepared to defend their fragile young democracy.
...DeWine owes it to himself, to his constituents and to the future of this nation to stand up and be counted on Iraq.
In other words, he should alter his position on Iraq to one more closely aligned with the position of the Plain Dealer.
Also endorsing DeWine today was the Cincinnati Enquirer
Posted by dan at October 23, 2006 8:37 PM