Let’s welcome Wolverine fan Mitt Romney to Ohio

Romney is terrible, but at least he has good taste in college football teams. Go Blue!

What a failed life you’ve lived.
My condolences.
Go Bucks!

While I look forward to this site each and every day and think that Plunderbund is by far the best Ohio political blog out there, as a Michigan alum I find stuff like this hard to take.  I know it is in good humor and in the end we all have the same goals, but I really wish a little more tolerance could be shown.

Before you get ready with your witty responses, keep in mind that I just finished funding a four year adventure at OSU for my son.  So I have probably given more money to OSU than most of you.

Thanks again, Plunderbund, and I would love to show Mitt the welcome he deserves.

And he was a liberal republican.  

haha. married an OSU alum +1. Founder of Plunderbund +2. I got a strike to spare!

Heard it all before. 😉

Great –just what we needed another republican in this state! They are starting early — long  long  season –campaign season I mean– lol 

At least Mittens isn’t an SEC fan; I’ve seen enough of those guys for a long while.  At least until they are under NCAA investigation.  I remember about 15-20 years ago, this Buckeye alum was thinking of wearing a maize & blue sweatshirt.  “The seasons pass, the years will roll…”

We have a winner! +1,000 Internets

What is a liberal republican? Is that a  mythical  creature like unicorns, living wage jobs, and conservatives who aren’t obsessed with sex?

I can’t really change it and overall very proud of where I’m from…though the people and political views do disappoint me often. sigh.

Long, long ago, before Richard Nixon embarked on his Southern Strategy, the Republican party had people in it who were called “Liberals”.  They were against the war in Vietnam, supported Civil Rights and the Voting Act, the ERA, and all kinds of things that you would associate with regular people.  In fact, it was the Democratic party that had more conservatives in it, especially from the South.

After Nixon told these conservative democrats that he had room for them in his tent, the two parties more or less flipped each other.  All of those Southern democrats who supported FDR so they could get rural electrification, agricultural subsidies, highways, and federal jobs, sites, and military bases, jumped at the chance to receive government largess but vote against libruls.  And I don’t have the time or space to go into what the blue-collar voters did in the north, but lets just say that screwing with their schools was a great way to push them into the GOP.

So there you have it.  Long, long ago, in country that resembled ours, we had liberal republicans, some of them respected leaders with large numbers of supporters.