Who Ya Gonna Love?

A friend from West (by God) Virginia seems to think that I believe all Dems are faultless and all Republicans are crooks . Wrong. But this does seem to be the GOP's approach.

When a Republican is found with his hand in the cookie jar, the assumption seems to be that it's the godless liberal media persecuting a wonderful family-values guy. The GOP closes ranks behind the guy.

Eventually, things become so bad that something has to be done, so the guy holds a tearful press conference and says he's resigning to spend more time with the family.

Compare this to the Mark Dann story in Ohio. The attorney general was clearly dirty. All (I repeat, ALL) statewide elected Dems told Dann that he had to resign or he would be impeached. Dann tried to negotiate. He wasn't allowed to. Dann is no longer the AG. The little piece of shit has gone back to Youngstown.

We go after the crooks and kick them out on their ass.

The GOP has a president who lied the nation into a war, but who is still president. Chickens do eventually come home to roost.

Cluck. Cluck.

So my friend seems to think that I believe all Dems are good and all Republicans are evil. Not so. Here's how I would rank US presidents and Ohio governors, and you may want to note that I liked several of the Republicans and have a less than stellar opinion of some of the Dems:

PRESIDENTS
(R) Dwight D. Eisenhower: Too bad he lied about the U2.
(D) John F. Kennedy: Cool during the missile crisis.
(D) Lyndon B. Johnson: Domestic, great; international, shitty.
(R) Richard Nixon: Got China right, but he was a crook.
(R) Gerald Ford: Honorable guy, but ineffective.
(D) Jimmy Carter: Anything that could go wrong, went wrong.
(R) Ronald Reagan: Nice persona, but a bastard.
(R) George H. W. Bush: Honorable and intelligent.
(D) Bill Clinton: Fine for the economy, but personally a piece of shit.
(R) George W. Bush: Moron.

OHIO GOVERNORS
(D) Michael DiSalle: A man with a conscience.
(R) Jim Rhodes: With bonds all things are possible in the Wonderful World of Ohio.
(D) John J. Gilligan: Understood the environment if not Ohio politics.
(R) Jim Rhodes: Kill the fucking hippies. (Oh, no, wait. We did that the last time I was in office.)
(D) Dick Celeste: Yeah, he was governor.
(R) George Voinovich: The GOP faithful hated him because he tried to be honest.
(R) Nancy Hollister: Gov for a month (no opinion).
(R) Bob Taft: I liked him, but he's the only criminal governor in Ohio's history.*
(D) Ted Strickland: So far, so good.

*Two WV governors have served sentences, so I guess it's a plus that Taft was only convicted while in office, but never had to serve time. Those who live in West Virginia must take political sport more seriously.

William Barron (D): In 1968, the former governor and several of his top officials were indicted on charges of bribery. All but Barron were found guilty. In 1971, he was again indicted on jury tampering charges associated with the 1968 trial. He was sentenced to prison, fined, and stripped of his law license.

Arch Moore (R): In 1990, Moore was found guilty of mail fraud. He served over two years in federal prison and paid a settlement to the state.

Crooks from both parties. How even-handed!