Here’s a portrait of a swing voter:

Doris Stucky, a 79-year-old retired nurse from New Philadelphia, Ohio, said she thought all politicians were corrupt. “I think they’re out to line their pocketbooks and get votes and they don’t care what they do or say to get them,” said Mrs. Stucky, a Republican, in a telephone interview after she participated in the poll.

“They came down on Bob Ney and I don’t think he’s any more guilty than the rest of them,” she said. “It’s the same in Ohio. I think politicians are all the same. I wish we could find some good honest Christian politicians but I don’t think there are any.” Mrs. Stucky said she was undecided about whom she will vote for.

This is how Republicans blunt the reaction to their crimes. Whatever Ms. Stucky read or saw on television, it convinced her that the problem is with politicians as a species and not with anything peculiar to Republicans. Maybe the GOP was being hypocritical with all that faith-based rhetoric, but the Democrats are no better.

This is why they bring up totally irrelevant stuff like Gary Studds, or Harry Reid’s land deal, or Bill Clinton’s genitalia every ten minutes.

Just a thought to start your day.

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