Cracked Krikorian: A Total Loss
A phone call I received this morning motivated me to jump on this now instead of waiting a few days.
Let me first be clear about something: After her vote FOR the pork-expanded “bailout” with the made-up $850 billion price tag, on the heels of her vote AGAINST the original “bailout” with the made-up $700 billion price tag, I’m not inclined to give Jean Schmidt many more, if any, passes for questionable votes.
In fact, I believe she needs a credible challenge from the right.
The problem is, after emerging from a crowded field in the June 2005 Special Primary, she’s never had one.
Certainly not House Bank scandalized, scam-supporting Bob McEwen, whose habit of voting absentee in Ohio while living in Virginia for nearly a decade may have been the “inspiration” for the vote-fraud-on-steroids tactics being carried out from a house in Columbus that were detailed by Michelle Malkin yesterday.
There have been other challengers, but, among other things, they were too closely or too recently associated with the type of people who think the idea of Ms. Schmidt being abducted while in Iraq and not returned is somehow funny. Ha ha.
If Jean Schmidt is going to get a credible challenge from the right, it’s going to have to wait until 2010.
Though the allegedly conservative person who is trying to challenge this year, David Krikorian, has put on a good game face, he has shown himself to be every bit as unhinged, if not moreso, as many of the challengers who preceded him.
I’ve known about Krikorian’s unhinged nature for some time. Alas, I’ve been unable to disclose what I’ve learned, and vaguely referring to it would carry little weight.
Thus, I have been hoping (more like expecting) that Krikorian would reveal his true nature publicly in some other way between now and Election Day.
Now he has.
Jean Schmidt was hit by a car while jogging last week.
Did challenger David Krikorian express sympathy for Schmidt’s situation and unconditionally wish for her full recovery from injuries she suffered?
Uh, not exactly.
Instead, Krikorian questioned Schmidt’s claims about the specifics of the incident:
“Um, I’m going to say, we are – how do I put this – elements of the representative’s story do not add up,” Krikorian said. “There is no way that at 6 a.m. in the morning, or 5:45 in the morning, she claims that a car was approaching her and it didn’t slow down. I’m assuming that it had its headlights on before it hit her, she turns her back. Two things that don’t make sense to me – One, she said she thought it was a gray car and a man was driving it. And I don’t see how you could make that assertion when it’s pitch black, foggy, and the headlights are facing her. You can’t tell what color the car is, and you certainly can’t tell who’s driving the car, especially if you turn your back.
“Secondly, she claims the car must have damage to it, based on it hitting her, yet apparently she was undamaged. All I can say is, you don’t get hit by a vehicle and walk away from it, and the vehicle has damage to it. I don’t see how she can make that assertion. I’ve talked to a lot of people who think the story’s phony. I’m not saying the story’s phony, but a lot of people out there think it is. And we’re looking into it.”
Schmidt injuries more serious
Rep. Jean Schmidt is recuperating at her Miami Township home in Clermont County after suffering two broken ribs and two broken vertebra as a result of being hit by a car while running along a road last week.
Here’s Krikorian’s attempted walk-back:
“Well, that would certainly be new information that would then corroborate her story. But Jean Schmidt has a history of issues with the truth, and you know, I certainly don’t want to make an assertion where there’s none to be made, and the way it was initially reported in the paper doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.”
“Now it makes sense. I had not heard that before. Now it seems like maybe she was hit. You can’t get hit by a car and not suffer injuries. Now we’re hearing reports that she did in fact suffer injuries, and if that’s the case, I wish her a speedy recovery.”
Way too little, way too late, pal.
David Krikorian has accomplished the seemingly impossible, making Nate “She didn’t really run that marathon” Noy look reasonable by comparison. The only thing dented around here is Krikorian’s credibility — which is so damaged that his campaign should be declared a total loss.
What the public has seen of Krikorian unhinged has the ancillary benefit of making the claim I made earlier more believable. Yes, there is more, but I would need permission to reveal it. For now, I’m not inclined to ask for it.
If David Krikorian were smart, he’d drop out of the Second District Congressional race to save himself further embarrassment and Second District voters further nausea. Alas, he almost certainly won’t.
Some inept or unfit challengers have the redeeming value of being entertaining to watch, even if only inadvertently so. Krikorian is not one of them. I’ve officially tuned him out as unworthy of consideration. Voters in Ohio’s Second Congressional District should do likewise.
