NixGuy Uncovers the Strickland Dealbreakers (and They Aren’t What You Think)

This post will stay at or near the top for the rest of Monday.

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NixGuy has been doing yeoman work on all things Strickland in the past two weeks, including today’s call for resignation based on consistency with the “Foley standard.” Ted could easily negate the validity of NixGuy’s call by renouncing the tactics orchestrated by his party, but he won’t.

But all of this doesn’t matter any more. That’s because NixGuy has, perhaps inadvertently, uncovered an official BizzyBlog Dealbreaker for Ted Strickland (and it’s not what you think). And there’s another that necessarily goes with it.

As a reminder, a BizzyBlog Dealbreaker is “something that completely justifies a person not voting for you, regardless of your party or your stands on the issues.”

Once any Dealbreaker is in place, discussion of where the candidate involved stands on “the issues” is over. The candidate is unacceptable by the standards of any reasonable voter, PERIOD. The choices are then limited to those candidates who remain.

I’ll have the details on the Dealbreakers Tuesday or Wednesday. Stay tuned.

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UPDATE: Past Dealbreakers involving other candidates include the following –

- Before the Dealbreaker name was officially coined, these situations qualified under Dealbreaker standards:

• Bob McEwen Dealbreakers (May-June 2005, Ohio Second District Congressional GOP Special Primary campaign) — One month of “official” residency in the District; Undisclosed business associations; Calling himself a congressman when actually a former congressman.

• Paul Hackett Dealbreaker (July-August 2005, Ohio Second District Congressional Special Election campaign) — TV ads posing as a supporter of George Bush while in reality holding strongly antiwar positions and calling the Commander in Chief, among other things, a “son of a b…..”

• Bob McEwen Dealbreakers (April-May 2006, Ohio Second District Congressional Primary campaign) — Continuing to call himself a congressman on his web site; Discovery of illegal voting in Highland County from approximately 1997 - 2002; Voting using someone else’s address; Continued undisclosed business associations; Posing as a Christian conservative while accepting the active campaign and financial support of an R-Rated (and sometimes worse) publisher and his political/legal acquaintances.

- Official Dealbreakers of the current campaign season –

• Sherrod Brown Dealbreaker #1 — No-show Sherrod’s absence from roll call votes and key committee and subcommittee hearings.

• Sherrod Brown Dealbreaker #2 — Late payment of taxes (19 months), and then only under legal threat (UPDATE: Brown can’t even remember the taxes he’s pushed on us, so “of course” he won’t remember the taxes he owes).

• Ted Strickland Dealbreaker #1 — ??? (completed October 25) Voter Deception over where he has been living

• Ted Strickland Dealbreaker #2 — ??? (completed October 25) Financially Shortchanging His District by not living inside it