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Subscribe to RSSPolitical newcomer Brad Wenstrup upset incumbent four-term Rep. Jean Schmidt on Tuesday in the Republican primary in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Wenstrup, an Army combat surgeon, garnered nearly 49 percent the district’s vote while Schmidt had nearly 43 percent, according to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office.
Wenstrup won 50 percent of the vote in Schmidt’s home turf of Clermont County and nearly 59 percent in Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati. The 2nd District stretches from Cincinnati into Appalachia.
Wenstrup challenged Schmidt from the right, favoring a flat tax, promising to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform and calling for competition among insurers across state lines.
He also believes the U.S. pulled combat troops out of Iraq too quickly.
Schmidt appeared to be the only incumbent House member losing in Ohio, according to Cincinnati.com.
Schmidt has represented Ohio’s 2nd District since 2005, when she won a special election against Democratic Iraq War veteran Paul Hackett. She faced a tough primary in 2006 from former Rep. Bob McEwan but had not had a serious challenge from within her party since. However, opponents had recently branded her as supporting higher taxes.
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When will these people ever learn?
What do "those people" need to learn?
That you should never vote in do-nothing losers like Schmidt to begin with.
eh, add sexism to the many plagues of the republican party.
And that if you do, you should never replace them with (from a political perspective) do nothing losers like Wenstrup. I don't think a career in politics would qualify someone for a job as an Army surgeon, and I don't think performing surgery necessarily qualifies someone for a career in politics.
Wenstrup likes HIS government-paid-for medical benefits, but wants to repeal free market health care reform for the rest of us, even though the reform bill will SAVE the government $124 billion over the next 10 years? How very generous! Where's he going to get $124 BILLION from to pay for scuttling the reform bill?
Wenstrup probably thinks repealing the bill would save money, when it would actually COST money. Voters need to learn the truth.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1221/Are-you-smarter-than-a-Fox-News-viewer-How-about-a-CNN-viewer-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out/Are-you-smarter-than-a-Fox-News-viewer-How-about-a-CNN-viewer-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out
And can someone PLEASE explain how Conservatives howl about the National Debt, but think we should have stayed in Iraq longer, should bomb Iran into oblivion, or start a new war in Syria? How is any of that fiscally conservative? Well, we should just slash ALL Social programs across the board, cut Social Security and Medicare, de-regulate EVERYTHING and let the "free market" run roughshod over everyone and everything that stands in the way of the almighty profit motive?!?!? And these are 'Republicans"?
WTH happened to my Republican party?
It got hi-jacked by the Moron Majority and the Tea Party
JT-456250.....could not said it any better myself.... with exception that the same moron people who voted Wenstrup in voted idiot boy Bush into the office not only once but twice. Go figure
to commonsense...I'm guessing you have never been on active duty or know what our servicemembers go through. You should be thanking him- not insulting him for his "gov paid for" medical benefits. I welcome you to go do a portion of the time he spent in the military. It makes me sick this country now feels the military members that defend the freedoms you so graciously spout about don't deserve to be taken care of for their sacrifice or the threat they are sent in to (or even worse-wounded or killed). I would be willing to bet you will be the first to jump up and scream "protect us!" when all hell breaks lose after the military has been carved away to a shell of a force. disgusting.
This is another warning to the incumbents in office on the beltway.
First, Kucinich and now Schmidt.
What would one expect when the Congressional approval rating is in the dirt.
BTW, Democrats for Romney is becoming more and more apparent. Whatever happened to my Democratic Party ?
Okay Nathan, how about all those members of Congress who never served in the military, yet still get premiere healthcare coverage, far better even than what Obamacare seeks to provide, yet want to all that away from the rest of us?
@Ido, Democrats for Mr. 14-percent tax rate/"I was for it before I was against it" Romney? You want to bet $10,000 on that? Do you really want to know what's happened to "your" Democratic Party? It's moved further and further to the right, while "my" Republican Party has gone off the deep end. Check this out: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838#axzz1n8egVuVG This is the 1956 Republican Party platform. Read it. You'll think you're reading the present day Democratic Party platform.
"Schmidt appeared to be the only incumbent House member losing in Ohio, according to Cincinnati.com."
Oh really, Denis Kucinich, the progressive's favorite is an "incumbent House member losing in Ohio" or do the bias brigade at msnbc not want to know that?
New district. No incumbent. Nice try.
The difference would be in Kucinich's case he was also running against another incumbent thanks to redistricting. Two Incumbents - One Seat ... Technically Kucinich didn't loose, the voters simply decided that his seat was the seat that was no longer needed.
Schmidt on the other hand was an incumbent who was facing a challenger. The voters in her case decided that they wanted to replace her, therefore she lost.
She is obviously a left wing, socialist, commie, pinko, or at least a moderate:-)
No substitute for reading the article first, before burping up dumb TeaComments!
dudogger, I think you misssed the sarcasm in the previous post...
EXACTLY!
Thanx for spelling it out, NB8;)
BTW, are those the tears of a beck in that avatar, dud? Outstanding!
Aren't they all the same thing? Saint Ronny couldn't get nominated in the "New and Improved" Tpublican party.
watch what you wish for, you just might get it.
They did - in 2010. Now look at the mess in Congress!
Don't worry, they started draining the swamp in 2010, they'll finish it in 2012 with guys like Dennis Kucinich and Barney Frank already on their way out the door of the House. Once the Republicans regain control of the Senate, too, and get that obstructionist Harry Reid out of the way, positive things can finally get done for the American people.
lololololol Really? lololololololol and then they will do what? Continue the war on women!!! lolol Ban birth control all together? lololol
No kidding!
And why? Because a MAJORITY of voters were WRONG about a half dozen critical facts.
If you watch Fox News, chances are what you know is WRONG. And the MORE people watch Fox News, the more MISINFORMED they become.
Scary. And bad.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1221/Are-you-smarter-than-a-Fox-News-viewer-How-about-a-CNN-viewer-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out/Are-you-smarter-than-a-Fox-News-viewer-How-about-a-CNN-viewer-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out
betterrightthanwrong - you are delusional as well as wrong!
Better right: You are calling Reid an obstructionist???? Orwell just turned over in his grave. Ever since Obama was elected, Republicans, under Mitchell's leadership, have obstructed everything coming down the pike that was associated with Obama, and you call Reid an obstructionist? Ideology does truly make a fool of the ideologue.
As an Ohio resident and a volunteer that works the other side of the general election race, this was a surprise, and will likely put this district in play during the general election. Jean Schmidt was hardly a moderate by any stretch. How far does the GOP think it can lurch to the right and still win ? They may have foolishly coughed up a safe seat here.
She was not a white male. The republicants are cleaning the House of women. Ann Coulter let the cat out of the bag the other day: no women in politics, no women should be able to vote.
No, just no stupid, posing wingbats like Schmidt, Palin, and Bachmann.
wow, funny, three big names in the teapublic, yet three big losers in america.. funny how that works..
I hope they go so far to the right they will exit stage right off Capitol Hill.
JUST WHAT THEY NEED , '' ANOTHER DRUM MAJOR FOR WAR '' ; no common sense , but fiscally responsible , what an irritating group of bigots !!!!!!!!
When they start beating that war drum, they stop being fiscally responsible. We can't pay for the two we still have going on in Iraq and Afganistan.
News Flash - Iraq is a done deal.
Remember what happened between 2000 and 2006 with Republicans in sole control. TWO UNFUNDED wars, 4 TEMPORARY tax cuts for the super rich, that are effectively permanent, RECONCILIATION, just 50 votes and a Vice-Presidential vote to pass anything the Republicans wanted passed. Want to see the end of Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and instant war with Iran? Vote Republican
Just because we have removed our troops from Iraq doesn't mean that the US has no more involvement there. Don't forget we're still in S. Korea.
Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed saying he wants to up the pressure on Iran by having one carrier group in the Mediterranean, and a backup in the Arabian Sea.
What Mitt doesn't seem to realize is that there are already TWO carrier groups in the Arabian Sea with a third on the way, and Iran does not have a coast along the Mediterranean. (The Mediterranean is 500 miles away from Iran at it's closest point, and we'd have to get permission from two to six other countries to fly over their air space. No such problem in the Arabian Sea, since Iran has a 300-mile coastline on the Arabian Sea side of the Straits of Hormuz.
He fled to France to escape the draft during the Vietnam War, and he thinks HE should be Commander in Chief?!
Idiot.
war is a horrible thing , and it should remain horrible ; it is not a video game , it takes your sons, daughters, kill and maim . if a war is worth fighting, it must involve the entire country. it should be paid for in taxes, taxes, and more taxes - it should involve the draft of everyone, (especially children of the politicians wanting war), and not just volunteer boys and girls. there should be rationing and hardship for everyone if the war is worth fighting for, and not just to save a nickle a gallon to fill your hummer or to make haliburton richer . use diplomacy, use sanctions, use all your resources to avoid war, since war has to be the last choice of a civilized nation. not the first choice of candidates trolling for votes !!!!!!!
But, according to Little Dubya, you're just not a a successful President unless you are a War President. Funny how it worked out for that yutz!
DUDOGGER......Does the obammmma admin. pay you for your quotes, or are you just brain dead
@Rocky, Kucinich is not running in his own district, it was removed after the 2010 census. His district was absorbed into two other districts and he was running in Toledo where Mary Kaptur was the incumbent Democrat. I hope this clears things up for you.
I still can not believe that americans should be in Iraq. The biggest social waste in america is the military. We only spend 1.3 trillion on defence. If you cut that in half that is still 300billion more than anyone else. When ever the government droped what we charge for tariffs it is followed with a economic recession or depression, raise tariffs. When rver the rich do not pay there fair share we have a economic melt down of the middle class and poor. Which leads to a recession or depression. Time for america to get back at what it is best at. Building its infrastructer and paying its bills today not tomorrow.
So republicans doubled down with an even kookier candidate...whats the news here?
This article cited the fact that "opponents had recently branded her as supporting higher taxes." as a reason she lost this primary. I have a different idea. About six months ago, Jean Schmidt was listed in a non-partisan groups list as being one of the most corrupt members of Congress. She accepted over half a million dollars in legal fees from special interest groups as a gift, then pled insanity when caught. As of December 2011 she has yet to disclose or repay those rouge fees as ordered by the House Ethics Committee.
Then, when the primary began to heat up, she ran TV ads in southern Ohio with the tag line “It’s time members of Congress did the right thing.” The irony was not lost on anyone here that could read.
I believe that the reason Jean Schmidt lost this primary is simple: the voters here are tired of the same old political double-faced shenanigans that is business as usual in Washington.
just glad the republican party is on their way out. its tough when you are a party that doesn't represent the majority of people. cant wait til the teapublic party is no more than a third non-significant party that we don't even have to hear about anymore. tired of hearing talking points and rhetoric from a party of old white farts that are so out of tough with the rest of the country, who are they speaking for? ugh. bye bye red.
A combat surgeon who wants opposes health care reform after practicing in a socialized medical system, who lived off tax revenue and wants to decrease the same, and who also wanted to continue an expensive and pointless war?
I thought Frank Burns was from Indiana, not Ohio.
Not only that, the Health Care Reform Act REDUCES the federal budget deficit by over $10 billion per year for the next 10 years.
How does this Frank Burns wannabe propose to come up with an extra $10 billion a year so he can keep his taxpayer funded health care while poor kids go untreated until they make (if they're lucky) that free trip to the emergency room.
J the J, I hope your right, but every time I watch a Republican debate, which got way to difficult for me to do because the risk to my TV became too great, I think of the movie "Idiocracy". I beleive this movie represents the direction the country is heading. America seem to be getting dumber and dumber and it won't be long before an ex-wrestler is voted into the White House and we are watering our crops with Gatorade. Obama 2012!!!!
I agree wholeheartedly. They want to do away with public education so that only the rich will have children with any education. Now Rocky Ricky wants to do away with higher education also. The media tries to fill our minds with entertainment news and human interest stories more than giving us hard fact news. I used to watch HLN in the mornings. Nothing but human interest stories.
Keep Americans ignorant of the facts so politicians, preachers, and the media can indoctrinate with useless nonsense.
I met with Ms. Schmidt just after she was first elected. She was just about as clueless (no knowledge) to the issues of the time as anyone I knew, let alone an elected official. She was a long time GOP stalwart given/chosen to hold Rob Portman's seat when he left for the GWB administration. We are better off without her.
It is partly amusing and mostly sad that so many of the comments are emotional responses and not responses of well read folks. Case in point is the comments about the 'tea party' that is referred to in disparaging ways. Have any one of these responders ever attended a tea party meeting? I had the opportunity to attend a few meetings of the Clermont County Tea Party. In attendance were people of every political persuasion and social backgrounds. The attendance ranged from 300 to 500 people in attendance at each meeting. There were no annual dues collected, the hat was passed to cover the cost of the meeting room and other costs. The expenses were borne by individuals.... not taxpayers, not corporate sponsors.
It might benefit each of you to attend a Tea party meeting, see what it is really made of, perhaps be exposed to the document of the Constitution of the United States of America for the first time in your life. Then you will see why I get offended when this is called a Democracy instead of a Republic; you will maybe understand why I am not pleased with the phrase "separation of church and state".... I dare anyone to find that phrase in the Constitution.
I challenge each reader to attend a local tea party meeting..... then I dare you to read the Constitution of the United States of America.
Unfortunately, Andy, the folks you met have very little to say about what the TP's do or say. That was hijacked years ago by the Palins, Cantors, and the Koch brothers. I'm sure the folks you met were decent people, it's just that the only thing the folks running it want from them are their donations. What their concerns are do not interest the hierarchy.
No one with more than a 6th grade education ever said that "separation of church and state" was in the Constitution. It comes from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson.
By the way I've been to a TP meeting. Hard to tell what they were all about with the cross burning the robes and hoods.
The Constitution was written to protect wealthy land owners and signed into effect by wealthy land owners. It was never meant to protect the average American citizen. Then they started amending it to protect the common person.
soo andy attended a tea party meeting, and allowed himself to be brainwashed by the propaganda.. good for you andy, the rest of the public chooses to stay away from the caustic rhetoric of the pee party. that's why no one agrees with you.. this is a country of the people. the tea party, as we all know, is an attempt at a grab of some of these people by the republicans, who without it, has no claim to any ones interest, except donald trump.. last i knew a handful of rich guys just aren't enough to win elections.. open your eyes sheep..
power to the people
and andy, I challenge you to think for your self instead of spewing glen beck rhetoric, your not fooling anyone.. dummy..
Andy,
Expanding on what oneiron said, the United States Supreme Court has consistently recognized that the purpose of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment was to build or erect a wall separating Church and State, according to Thomas Jefferson, whose group crafted the clause:
"[A]t the first session of the first Congress the amendment now under consideration was proposed with others by Mr. Madison. It met the views of the advocates of religious freedom, and was adopted. Mr. Jefferson afterwards, in reply to an address to him by a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association (8 id. 113), took occasion to say: 'Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions,-I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore man to all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.' Coming as this does from an acknowledged leader of the advocates of the measure, it may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the amendment thus secured." Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 164 (1878) (emphasis added).
"This Court first reviewed a challenge to state law under the Establishment Clause in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, 330 U.S. 1, 67 S.Ct. 504, 91 L. Ed. 711 (1947).1 Relying on the history of the Clause, and the Court's prior analysis, Justice Black outlined the considerations that have become the touchstone of Establishment Clause jurisprudence: Neither a State nor the Federal Government can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither a State nor the Federal Government, openly or secretly, can participate in the affairs of any religious organization and vice versa.2 "In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between church and State.' "Everson, 330 U.S., at 16, 67 S. Ct., at 511 (quoting Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 164, 25 L. Ed. 244 (1878)). Even the Everson dissenters agreed: "The Amendment's purpose ... was to create a complete and permanent separation of the spheres of religious activity and civil authority by comprehensively forbidding every form of public aid or support for religion." 330 U.S., at 31–32, 67 S. Ct., at 519–520 (Rutledge, J., dissenting, joined by Frankfurter, Jackson, and Burton, JJ.); accord, Lee v. Weisman, 505 US 577, 599-600 (1992).
There is a principle in the law that a case that interprets a law is more authoritative than the law itself. Despite the fact that the Constitution itself doesn't contain Jefferson's words, the Supreme Court has definitively construed the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to be for the purpose or erecting or building a wall of separation between Church and State. Jefferson's words are thereby memorialized in First Amendment case law, which is superior to the language of the amendment itself.
It's time for Ron Paul and Rick Santorum to stop attempting to mislead the American people into believing that the Founding Fathers intended anything other than a secular society in which citizens can worship as they see fit and believe in whatever religion they want without governmental support or interference.
Michael L. Marowitz
J.D., J.S.M. (Master's Degree in Law with emphasis on constitutional law, Stanford Law School 1981)
One Supply Sider bites the dust to be replaced by another Supply Sider. Worship $100 OIL.
Great, the prospect of another right-wing, anti-government, ignorant TP'er in the House. Add in the probability (low I am relieved to say) of Joe (not his name) the plumber (not his profession) beating Marcy Kaptur in Ohio's 9th; and you have the House really becoming a ship of fools.
The probability is actually zero in that district. "Joe" will be lucky to get 25% of the vote.
Guess this means another DEM seat in Congress. Somebody should tell that right wing winner that the withdrawal was BUSH'S TIMETABLE which Iraq did NOT want to renegotiate!
The warmongerers of the Republican party, Romney and Gingrich, now want us to again do Israel's dirty work in Iran. The warmongerers brought us into Iraq and only Israel benefitted, but we lost over 4500 people with another 17,000 injured horrendously. Never Again!
Sure, no reason to stop Iran. They'll take out Israel and a few American cities, maybe even Portland so they pollute the Columbia River. Afterwards Iran will either be a glass desert or we'll still be asking them to play nice.
Good, who can forget when this witch called Murtha a coward and said he would cut and run in Iraq, the woman is a total useless piece of work, hopefully she will go home and take up canning or some other no brainer thing that's within her realm of knowledge.
rtwngrsrchknsht...Obama/Biden'12..everything the gop couldn't accomplish and still can't.EVIDENCE:see their candidates?See their future?Inconsequential forty years ago,inconsequential today.
One piece of garbage replaced by another. No folks, the Democrats have no chance to win this seat. The current Republican government of Ohio crafted this seat to be solidly Republican, and Democrats have no chance here. It is infested with huge gobs of clueless radical right wingers. Charlie Manson could win this seat if he were the one with an R after his name in the general election.
Yea like the DemocRATs don't do the same.
The only incumbent to loose was a woman........how nice for the GOP/TP......
"competition among insurers across state lines"... What an amazing concept. We can do that with auto insurance so why not health insurance?
Does not work for auto insurance, will not work for health insurance!
We MUST open MEDICARE for everyone and get the insurance company greedy bastar-s out!
"He also believes the U.S. pulled combat troops out of Iraq too quickly."
Just what the world needs; another Teaturd rattling his little sabre! Geez, how many more deaths and injuries do these death merchants need to satisfy their blood lust?