TV Commercials by Idiots

The primaries are coming, the primaries are coming.

And the tv commercials are here to prove it.

To catch you up before I get started: Jim Petro and Ken Blackwell both want to be the Republican candidate for Governor here in Ohio, the Heart of it All.

I cannot stand Ken Blackwell's latest commercial. He's "slamming" Petro for opposing Ohio's Constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage. Yes, that amendment, the one that got Bush elected President. Anyway...

The commercial says that Petro lined up with all kinds of crazy liberals in opposing said amendment. Well guess what? Lots of Republicans and conservatives were against that amendment. Lots of people who are against same-sex marriage were against that amendment. Why? Because it is so poorly drafted that the litigation has already begun and will continue for some time.

Repeat after me: "waste of tax dollars."

Nobody wants their taxes raised, but they have no problem at all voting for an amendment that will eat up untold numbers of their tax dollars.

Ah, the ignorance. Doesn't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

And while we're talking about Ken Blackwell, current Secretary of State of the great state of Ohio, he's in the news for something else right now. Seems Mr. Blackwell's office gave out more social security numbers.

Yes, that's right.

After getting in some trouble in recent months for having SSNs posted on the Secretary of State's website, his office screwed up again. They've recently given out a list of all registered voters in Ohio that included our SSNs. According to the paper, they gave the list to 20 different people.

Great. Lovely. I don't give out my own SSN. I don't even have it on my driver's license. [In Ohio, the default is for it to be on your license. You have to make a specific request for it not to appear.] And yet, the Secretary of State's office apparently hands it out to whoever asks for it!

If either Blackwell or Petro is elected governor in November, we are screwed. Well, screwed even more than we are now with the Bush-Taft combo, that is. Hard to imagine, I know, but it's true.