Thu 13 Jul 2006
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The latest polls put Dr. Victoria Wulsin being a contender in the ring with Mean Jean Schmidt. This match is going to be different than most other matches simply because its woman against woman. Poll or no poll, common sense says that Ms. Schmidt is going to alter her presentation when combating Dr. Vic. She has painted herself into a corner as coarse and ruthless, marathon running, anti-abortion (kinda), I support the President straight into the bowels of hell the 2nd district of Ohio be damned kinda gal; with bleak, melancholy handlers and supporters just doing their jobs. Contrast with the charming Dr. Wulsin, who has never lied about her education, a proven problem solver who thinks outside the box, caring, energetic, who is willing to do whatever it takes for the good of the people; with excited, personable supporters and virtually no handlers.
On pure esthetics, Wulsin beats Schmidt hands down. I bet right this minute Jean Schmidt is practicing her smile and hand shake without looking like human contact is painful. You guys like to harp on the issues and details and I am telling you image and perception in more than half the battle…especially for women. There have been hundreds of studies done on this. Jean Schmidt is in a world of trouble. I predict a pastel or two and maybe even a flower print in Mean Jeans future. There is money on whether or not she loses the severe bun and scrunchie by the end of summer. I personally think she is going to try to glam it up abit. Lip gloss instead of the harsh red lipstick and a curl or two in her ponytail. She may try for the ugly duckling sympathy route but I think she has too much pride. She is going to have to step it up to compete. Lose the dour seething death stares. Attempt a pleasant look. Publicly endure her constituents. Be nicer to her staff so they don’t always look like they would rather be at the dentist. She may even have to articulate an original thought in order to prove she really isn’t a Bush puppet.
I don’t want the Wulsin campaign to get comfortable. While that poll was good news, Dr. Vic still has a ton of work to do to get her name out there and connect with people.
Grab your pearls gang. This is gonna be better than Dynasty’s Alexis and Krystal battles.
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July 13th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Mrs Editor….you are a riot! I really do not think Schmidt will EVER rid herself of that hair style, let alone that god awful schrunhie. That has been and will probably always be her style. She will say that is her, like it or not…it is not about looks or glam it is about action and business…blah blah blah.
Dr Vic has an uphill battle this summer and fall. Based on prior elections, Portman did well in almost every county every time he ran. However, Schmidt in 2005 only won Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren…Paul Hackett won the rest. Had Paul been 50 percent closer in Clermont Hamilton and Warren Counties he would have won… Vic has GOT to address the issues here in Clermont county and show she can do what it takes to grow this county and address the issues that ARE important to us in this county. This is Jean’s home county and Vic has GOT to get this county swinging her way…Glam and makeovers are NOT going to do that. Same for Hamilton and Warren. Straight forward, hard hitting attacks on the issues and showing she has a plan of attack will go a long way to moving this county her way.
Plus Dr Vic MUST gain name recognition in the other counties. Those traditionally have been democratic counties (PIKE, SCIOTO anyway)…they need to know and see her. Get to understand her stance on the issues.
I certainly hope the Wulsin campaign is NOT comfortable. They cannot afford to be comfortable. I expect the Schmidt camp to drop a poll or two in the next few weeks showing COMMANDING leads in the race….
So Mrs. Editor…I love the post….and yes Dr Vic must get her name out there and connect with the people….and get the stance on the issues. Glam will follow.
July 13th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Hilarious, I love to read your stuff. I didn’t comprehend what the pictures were right away. What a difference hair makes. But then women know it’s all about hair.
Unfortunately, you’re right, it’s about image and getting people to like and trust you. If it was about issues, the Democrats would win in a landslide. That said, Wulsin just looks nicer and more trustworthy. I think Wulsin is getting good advice and I think they’ll work hard. The republicans just started to fall apart last year during the special and it’s still trending that way so I think things are more favorable for Wulsin. We need to capitalize on it and fight very hard.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:17 am
I hate to be the one to burst the bubble on this one; however this race just got a little more crowded:
http://www.natenoy.com/blog
http://www.natenoy.com
http://www.noyforcongress.com
I look forward to battling wits between my team and yours. Clearly Dr. Wulsin has built a camp filled with some bright, young aggressive talent. No doubt you all would have blown the Schmidt cronies plum out of the proverbial (yea I love dropping a “proverbial” in on every third or fourth conversation) water. When it’s all said and done Jean will get less than 25% of the vote (that’s if she even stays in this thing once my team and I are done getting the truth out their about her.)
That will leave two candidates going to battle over ideology. So if you and the good MD can convince the 70% or so of the voters that own guns that it is time to give them up then you will have accomplished something that will earn you this election. I just hope the MD sticks to her “progressive” platform. As you know the combination of the wayback machine and the power of the “cache” has made it a little harder for candidates to take any 180 degree philosophical turns once their ideas are made public. But like I said, if you can convince people like my friend Phil who is a MD himself and lives in the district (not to mention he is a yellow dog D and has NEVER voted R in his life, but he is quite the avid hunter) that he should vote for someone that plans to come knocking to take his gun away over his friend of 20+ years that will support the 2nd Amendment to the death; then no doubt your camp will end up with 80+% of the vote. To take two phrases from anonymous sources from my home town of Piketon in Pike County: “That game don’t play down here in the sticks; and that dog don’t hunt.”
Best of luck to you during the campaign. My www.natenoy.com site contains some very legitimate and fair questions for the MD as well as Jeanie. Hopefully you at least stop by my Blog for a minute and gander at the other interesting/entertaining post I have submitted for your benefit.
Best of luck and I hope to see you at a debate.
Nate Noy
Two post scripts to add:
(1) If you are a true liberal you won’t even consider deleting this post from your site; and
(2) Before you call me out for using YOUR pictures of Dr. Wulsin on MY site you better start deleting all of the pictures YOU have of Schmidt on your own site.
July 14th, 2006 at 5:42 am
Nate,
Relax. Welcome.
I delete off topic posts and personal attacks. While this might be considered off topic I’ll let ya slide.
I should let you know that your site crashed my browser. I really discourage the use of Java Applets. There’s just no need any more with DHTML.
July 14th, 2006 at 7:00 am
Sorry about the java thing. You can put that one directly on the shoulders of the good folks at yahoo. (Or maybe it was the Republican Party trying to shut me down before I got started to protect their ultimate puppet Jean Schmidt ) I was utilizing their java-based date stamp on every page. I’ve gone ahead and purged it; that’s what happens when you know just enough IT to be seriously dangerous to yourself.
I was half-cocked (not in the alcohol or drugs sort of way mind you) when I posted the post-scripts to the above message. It’s your site and there’s no such thing as someone being able to usurp your own individual right to purge whatever you deem to be not in-line with whatever it is your objective is with the site. I apologize for calling you out in your own forum, nice way to introduce myself to someone at the other end of the political spectrum I guess.
Speaking of sites being down the Wulsin site has been down for hours now. Perhaps that got some national play and a serious spike in traffic from that poll and the subsequent media coverage that ensued?
For the record I have no problem whatsoever with Dr. Wulsin. I hope the Schmidt camp doesn’t find a way to fabricate some dirt that will tarnish her image. My questions towards the doc deal mostly with the fact that I know she is a very progressive candidate, but in my opinion she has been instructed to bury any issue she may truly believe in to create some chance at actually being elected. In my mind that’s not good advice, because you never know when someone may come around and be seeking full transparency. Especially for anyone that already has an old platform or two somewhere out there on the Internet.
She believes in gay pride, I happen to be 180 degrees away from her on that issue as well as abortion. However, there is no question that she has the right as an American and under God to hold her beliefs near and dear. The problem I have is the fact that all of her pro-choice verbiage did not make it over in the re-design. I mean you are verbally pro-choice for the D primary, but when the general comes around it’s re-design time and that position comes right off the website since you know the only way the district could ever elect a pro-choice candidate would be for the conservative to be a lying piece of crap, wait a minute……………..
I guess my main point is that Dr. Wulsin should be Dr. Wulsin and not let herself get caught up in the cycle of corruption that almost unavoidably comes with this territory. She should consider things like the fact that there are serious pockets of progressivism in Northern Ohio near where she is from. If she made a bold stand for what she believed in THIS YEAR in THIS DISTRICT she might get crushed; however she could pick up some serious national attention as the candidate that was not willing to back away from what she truly believed was right, even if it meant costing her an election this year. After gaining recognition and a reputation for never backing off her beliefs she could re-locate and be a true champion for the people like herself.
Her problem in OH-2 is that she’s truly NOT like not only everyone else but ANYONE else. You know as well as I do: this is God’s country. We are anti-abortion; anti-gay marriage; pro-gun rights; anti-tax and spend and pretty much down the line the exact opposite of what the Dr. truly is about.
Anyway, if she opts to be fully transparent I’ll lay off the things she can’t control like the fact she is from Indian Hills etc (although there ARE 33 counties in this state with free health clinics for the residents and not a single one in OH-2.) I’ve been out there obliquely talking with the common folk and I have a solid handle on what these people really need, if anything I’d likely be more of a populist by a pure academic definition than anything else. The problem the Dr. will continue to face here is she’ll never be able to get the people to truly believe she cares as long as she wears a $20,000 set of pearls to a function in Pike County or lets Teddy introduce her as a Ph D. from HARVARD. Harvard plays real well in a majority of the world, but where I’m from the second someone hears “Harvard” you are labeled as an elitist (even if you worked 80 hours a week to pay your own way through it won’t matter. ) It comes off as “I’ve got something you don’t have.” These people already live that every single day of their lives (not to mention the predatory debt collectors and payday advance places that continue to thieve what little they do actually have.) I know the heart of the voting population is in Clermont and Hamilton, but re-districting will eventually come and if Brinkman has anything to say about it those counties will be long gone and replaced for more of the hills in OH2. Even then though, these people may be yellow-dog D’s, but as soon as they find out a candidate is not 100% pro-2nd amendment it is perceived as a major threat and self-preservation becomes far more important than electing someone that already is sitting on millions of dollars etc.
Anyway, this is way off topic but maybe you could start a new thread. Also, I hope you realize that it’s your coverage of these issues that motivated me in the first place to start looking at this thing. You and I are polar opposites and I can recall cringing on more than one occasion as I read your points of few.
I’ll leave on this note: the truly ironic thing is that the Conservatives that continue to support Jean Schmidt after they are fully aware of what she has done and continues to do are about the lowest form of life out there. I mean you have your views, they are not the same as mine, but we can respect each other’s divergence in perspective. A so-called conservative that allows corruption and supports it on the other hand redefines what a true hypocrite is. It’s not my job to judge anyone, but I know what I’ve read in scripture and my best guess is that it will be better for people that were stone-cold alcoholics their entire lives than someone purporting to be something they truly are not.
Ok, fire up a new subject. I’m not sure I could even sponsor this discussion on my own site thanks to the FEC and the vote Jean cast in that direction.
Nate Noy
July 14th, 2006 at 8:31 am
I see. A write-in candidate. That should play really well.
July 14th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Muffet I guess you have never heard of Charlie Wilson?
July 14th, 2006 at 9:53 am
That was a primary. He was well known. You don’t deserve to be known, let alone well-known, from the drivel I see on your website.
July 14th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Hey hay Nate darlin. Slow your roll. Take a minute to sit down and say hello. Dont just charge in insulting and insinuating when you dont know who is who. This is a friendly place…mostly.
July 14th, 2006 at 10:33 am
I’ve pulled Mr. Noy’s post because of content that I felt was threatening. Next time he will be banned.
July 14th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Thank you Editor.
Mr Noy needs to understand coming out firing with both barrels will get him nowhere at all. No one knows who he is….google him…no hits on page one. If he even EXPECTS to be recognized as a viable candidate he needs to cool his freaking jets.
July 14th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Try: Nathan Noy. My friends have always called me Nate but I even filed my FEC reports under Nathan. You’ll find a number of things there; guess I’ll go by Nathan again until I tick enough people off to get Nate on the radar.
Sorry to stir things up earlier; my question was intended to be interpreted as being rhetorical in nature and clearly it was not received as so. I’ve been too busy working 70+ hour weeks the past few years without any time for Blogs, message boards etc. I guess the days of free flaming went out with the right to bare arms for a convicted felon even if they are non-violent.
My preference was to discuss the issues. I know where I stand on everything and I’m not afraid to disagree with others and make a stand when I have to. My concern is that Jean Schmidt doesn’t even really have any positions on the issues; she simply does as told. My other concern is that Dr. Wulsin was the most progressive candidate in the 05 D special but she now seems to be compromising her beliefs in an attempt to get elected. At some point she will be pigeonholed into addressing some of the inquiries I have posted on my website.
I am doing this for Southern Ohio. Whether you disagree with my positions or not you can rest assured that I won’t be doing any 180’s or pulling issues off of my website if public opinion sways in a direction opposite to my own. What you see really is what you get (except it looks like I’ll be heading back to Nathan from Nate.)
July 14th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
The dynamics of a Write-In Campaign have changed since now most ballots have a blank spot to write the name in. When you get the ballot you know that there’s somebody running for that office who isn’t listed, and since most precincts have the names of write in candidates available, it’s really not that different from just being on the ballot.
At least, that’s the way it has worked out here.
July 15th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Thanks Eric for providing that additional point of clarity. As I noted before I have already complied with the FEC process (my docs should be available on their website within the next week or so I hope.) Anyone that passes that hurdle and files a form 13C here in Ohio should be viewed as a legitimate candidate.
I want to also thank the folks at the Ohio 2nd Blog. First, this Blog actually help plant the seed in my mind that I needed to get back here and take a position that is representative of the actual legal citizens of the district. Second I wanted to thank everyone for allowing me to soft-launch my campaign here.
I have launched by own Blogs at: http://thetruthinoh2cd.blogspot.com/ and www.natenoy.com/blog . For obvious reasons I’ll likely focus a majority of my future posting efforts on my own sites; this should enable people to get a better feel for what I stand for and not they will not have to truck all over the Internet to do research. I want to extend a personal invitation and welcome everyone from the left to come on over and share your opinions. I firmly believe that a sound debate only leads to a better understanding by all. I do not intend to censor anything, as long as it remains appropriate for my mother to read.
Good luck with what you guys have going on here. It’s great that we live in a country where we can agree to disagree and not have to worry about our right to express our personal beliefs.
Peace and God Bless,
Nate Noy
July 18th, 2006 at 6:27 am
People, people, you underestimate our friend, Nate Noy. He seems like a fine upstanding guy to me, just the type of candidate to split the troglodyte Schmidt vote. I bet he even dresses in a Captain America suit, like Jean does, while supporting a constitutional amendement against flag desecration.
Oh, and Nate, just so you know, I completely defend your right to march in Skokie, Illinois.
Go Nate!!!!
July 18th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Just a few comments/ questions for you Purple Piketonian (ones that will likely finally result in my permanent ban from this site):
(1) Tell whoever it is that writes your posts and reads replies to you that: troglodyte is a mighty big word for Piketon, so I doubt you even live there; and ask them to look up John Locke and read it to you real slow; then maybe you’ll have a clue as to what the role of government is really supposed to be in this country.
(2) Did I miss something? Is Ted Strickland actually going to be in DC with the Doc? He sure seems to be calling a lot of shots for her; and you know even Teddy had the intelligence to support the NRA. How can you progressives support a guy like that?
(3) Again, further evidence that you don’t really live in Piketon: Vic is “concerned” about healthcare (of course Schmidt is “concerned” about whatever her script writers tell her to be concerned about that day, so that’s one small up for Vic). However, if Vic is so “concerned” then why does Pike County not have a free health clinic when 33 other counties in Ohio do? Why is Vic sitting there in Indian Hills while the working people in towns like Piketon have no clinics and/or insurance, while the indigents that are a product of the system make sure they “get everything they have coming from the government because its owed to them.” Vic will need to throw her own money at her campaign to win it, since none of it seems to be going to help start-up any charities that would really help people, at least you know she still has the funds to do so.
August 2nd, 2006 at 5:35 pm
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