The Enquirer Politics Extra “blog” has two more posts on the 2nd Republican primary. One on McEwen’s new attack ad and the other on his artful dodge of Schmidt’s efforts to prevent him from voting. But what’s really interesting to me is this line from their “blog”:

Thank goodness all of these stories attacking Rep. Jean Schmidt were published in the Enquirer:

“Schmidt’s degrees questioned: Staff says she has hours, if not parchment” (April 1, 2006)

“Schmidt, Chabot spar over support: He says campaign Web site citing his endorsement is wrong” (March 8, 2006)

“Schmidt in a war on words: Rookie lawmaker’s ‘coward’ remarks ricochet” (Nov. 22, 2005)

Because Bob McEwen, who is challenging Schmidt in the May 2 GOP primary, used all of these stories in his new ad, which starts off attacking Schmidt for voting “to raise the sales tax and the gas tax and a new tax on personal services.”

Oh yes, thank you Enquirer for your hard work in making this race one completely devoid of substance. Thank you so very much for making Jean Schmidt the true voice of the Repulican Party. Thanks for not talking about real issues. Thank you for helping make the war in Iraq the nightmare that it is. Your lazy, pathetic brand of journalism is one of the reasons that Ohio is in the mess that it is. Take a bow, Cincinnati Enquirer!

UPDATE: More on the problems @ The Enquirer @ The Beacon. (via BSB)