VICIOUS REPUBLICAN CADAVER-EATING CANNIBALS REPORTED IN NORTHWEST OHIO

"Brain, brains... must find brains"

When 10 term Republican incumbent Rep., Paul Gillmor died the first week in September, the GOP was confident that they could hold on to his sprawling northwest Ohio district. After all, it's 94% white, has a huge Republican voter registration advantage, and elected Bush with 61% in 2004. Robin Weirauch, the woman who lost to Gillmor in 2004 and 2006 declared she would run again. Why worry? Well, let's forget, for a monment, that as voters have gotten to know Weirauch better, her totals have gone up considerably-- from 33% in 2004 to 43% last year. Instead, let's take a look at the Republican field.

The two Republicans in this race are a right-wing state Representative, Bob Latta, and an extreme right-wing state senator, Steve Buehrer. Both are kooks but Buehrer is a drooling nazi-- supported, predicatbly, by the Club For Growth, a hard right faction of the Republican Party. Thursday the Ohio Elections Commission ruled against Buehrer and his fascist backers in a complaint brought against them by Latta that he was being smeared. I always have to laugh when conservatives complain that the fascist end of their party is smearing them; a little taste of a medicine they love to dish out but can't ever seem to swallow.

And it gets even funnier. Yesterday, just one day after the Elections Commission ruled against them for maligning Latta, the Club for Growth and Buehrer were running a uarter million dollar barrage of radio and TV ads against Latta. Latta's campaign says the tactics will backfire-- but we're talking about very low common denominator Republicans here, so it's more likely that they will be easily programmed to hate Latta and worship Buehrer. Matt Parker, Latta's campaign manager, said "the people of northwest Ohio are not ready for a candidate who is... bought and paid for by an outside group." Perhaps not the "people" in general. But the Republican base? What else have they been trained-- like seals-- to do?

The special primary election is November 6. Meanwhile Robin Weirauch is taking the opportunity to point out the vicious mess the GOP primary has develoved into. She's has been on the attack too-- but on the level of ideas and policy. Her own new  ad calls out Bush and the rubber stamp Republicans who sustained his S-CHIP veto. She called attention to it by telling the local media that, "While my Republican opponents Bob Latta and Steve Buehrer are focused on tearing each other down, I'm focused on the issues that matter to working families." She asked Latta and Buehrer to tell the voters where they stand on S-CHIP leguslation and Bush's veto. Buehrer said he would have voted to sustain the veto and latta ducked the question, saying he'd have to look into it. Either Latta or Buehrer will face Weirauch on December 11.