Reply #16: I hear a lot about this outsider-military persona thing that Hackett has

[Kolesar]

I would surely like to see someone develop the idea. It certainly is not apparent to me and the only promotion I have seen is something about his Marine uniform and that he utters profanities. (yeah, that'll get a lot of moms voting for him). I think his fund raising prowess is overrated. He was the only race going when Dr. Dean sent a message out to the party faithful--that's how he bagged a slick $300,000 in a week.

Further, about this anti-career politician sentiment, you have no better outsider challenger than Sherrod Brown who has stood bravely against the war and bravely against the Clintons and Begala/Carvilles who shoved NAFTA/CAFTA/FTAA on the Democrats. Once Mr. Brown starts getting those messages out, he is going to find a whole bunch of sympathetic voters in Ohio. (Can you find anybody mad about losing 200,000 manufacturing jobs?) Brown is as faithful to Democratic principles as any candidate. DU has always been a site with no quarter for poseurs and DINOs. Let's go with the man who is carrying our message, and let's not cower in some fear that we are not sounding enough like republicans to appeal to some poorly-defined center of the electorate.

Further further, Voinovich is not up for election for five years. I expect the old buzzard will quit and return to his nest feathered with prison dollars--but that is an aside. Maybe Paul Hackett should park it for an election cycle and go learn something about policy and politics.