Bipolar George

A few days ago I noted another nice base hit from Bow Tie George, of whom I'm not ordinarily a fan.

I didn't get around to noting his recent lunacy, kvetching about the president fighting a war, but Will falling down is dog-bites-man.

Today's he's on base again, gonna go all the way tonight, tonight, with a serviceable piece about Ohio's Ken Blackwell, who's drawing national attention.

Nothing is more predictable than that Blackwell would do so, creating a high profile for Republican principle and a high profile for conservative Republican blacks.

Equally predictable is that the state party would line up behind someone else, in this case Jim Petro, a perfectly nice guy, but one who simply has no core conservative beliefs. He's simply an extention of the Voinovich/DeWine/Taft line, probably the best of them (Ed-Damning with faint praise? Absolutely. But it's true; he has principles. He's true to his eclectic beliefs, or sort of true. He's just not a conservative.)

The good news is, if Blackwell wins the office, he owes no one in the party, and he'll have validated conservatives. The bad news? Don't really see it. He could lose, of course, but at least if he does, he'll lose fighting, and someday someone else will pick up the banner.