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[video] US Senate 2010: The Fix ignores Mary Taylor, Christian Science Monitor offers Joe the Plumber


This item from The Fix about Ohio’s senior U.S. Senator George Voinovich’s announcement about retiring includes speculation as to who the candidates for the open seat might be, but there’s no mention anywhere of Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor, my favorite possibility from the GOP side. I’m sticking by that option, even though I can understand why the GOP would want her to stay put and run for re-election.  I’m not sure what price I’d exact from them to make me do that, if I were her, but given the mood of the country, and conservative women in particular who really need a competent, successful, well-liked, kind of sort of bipartisan Ohio-style person to support, I think Taylor is in a great position – to run, or not run and run for anything else later.

On the other hand, the Christian Science Monitor seems to be the first up with a suggestion that Joe the Plumber might consider giving up being Joe the Journalist for being Joe the U.S. Senator:

We told you about this last week.  Wurzelbacher is actually in Israel and he’s covering the fighting for a conservative web site.

So, why not fill out the resume with U.S. Senator?

Bring it on

He told conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham last October that he was interested in Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s seat and was mulling a run.

“I’ll tell you what, we’d definitely be in one heck of a fight but, you know, I’d be up for it,” he said.

No way, you say?  The Arizona Cardinals are in the NFC Championship game.

Anything – anything – is possible.

Oh yeah. Ohio.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:51 pm January 12th, 2009 in Congress, Endorsements, Government, Ohio, Politics, leadership 

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3 Responses to “[video] US Senate 2010: The Fix ignores Mary Taylor, Christian Science Monitor offers Joe the Plumber”

  1. 1 Pho on January 12th, 2009 4:34 pm

    Did he really say “the Israel people?”

    He has his head up his . . . plumbing.

  2. 2 Chuck Butcher on January 12th, 2009 7:23 pm

    This guy makes being in construction embarrassing, sorry Ohio.

  3. 3 sab on January 12th, 2009 10:13 pm

    No way would Mary run for the Senate. She couldn’t even be bothered to move to Columbus when she was elected Auditor. She has a very successful husband and two teenagers at home in Green. She’s very ambitious but I doubt she’d risk screwing up her homelife for life in Washington.

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