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27

Mary Taylor: “The most meaningful change is no change at all…”


“But a return to the basics,” she’s quoted as saying.  

I promise – I still want State Auditor Mary Taylor to buck her old boy Ohio Republican Party as much as if not more than anyone, but wow, if she keeps saying reactionary out of touch with reality stuff like it sounds she said last night at the Ross County annual Lincoln Day Dinner, I can see how she’s got just as much a handicap as the rest of their options.

Some other notable comments by Taylor that show more of the same disconnect:

Taylor, the only Republican seated in a statewide position, called for her fellow Republicans to return to basics. While she spoke of presidents Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, it was early 1940s Ohio governor John Bricker she presented as a good example of the party when faced with a $40 million deficit.

“He didn’t raise taxes, he didn’t raise fees, and he didn’t run to Washington for a bailout,” Taylor said, drawing a comparison to current Gov. Ted Strickland.

Instead, he reorganized state government and had eliminated 2,000 state jobs to balance the budget, she said.

Well, I don’t know the first thing about Bricker or Ohio in the early 1940s, but I do know that Pearl Harbor was on December 7, 1941 and I can just bet that the country’s entrance into WWII helped the economy a whole lot.  You can read more about the economic rebound brought on by our entrance into the war here (the html version is here).

Taylor also said this curious thing:

She also expressed concern about the casual switch from talking about billions to trillions of dollars. She related the numbers to years, explaining that while 1 billion seconds would take us back 32 years to 1977, 1 trillion seconds would send us to about 29,000 BC, when Ohio still was covered by a glacier.

Huh? Comparing monetary units to the number of seconds we count backwards to 29,000 BC?  At least we know she may not be an Intelligent Design or Creationism in public schools proponent.

Okay Ohio Republican statewide potential candidates – carry on.

Hooo…

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:19 am February 27th, 2009 in conservatives, Mary Taylor, Ohio, Politics, Republicans 

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