Jim Geraghty has been trying to
figure out who is behind an
anonymous hit on RNC chairman candidate Ken Blackwell and
includes Ohio Republicans on his list of suspects. Blackwell has
long
been hated by members of his state party establishment for
the same reasons many conservatives like him. And there are other
Republicans, some of them Blackwell admirers, who worry that his
strategy for Republican success is too close to what worked in
2004 but failed in 2006, including in his own gubernatorial race.
It remains to be seen whether his Conservative
Resurgence Plan will allay those concerns or not.
Though while we're on the subject of Blackwell, bloggers, and
conservative credentials, I might as well say this: Blackwell's
reported 1976 vote for Jimmy Carter is now as far in the past
as Ronald Reagan's 1948 vote for Harry Truman was in 1980. A lot
of reliable Reagan coalition members, including Pat Robertson and
Jerry Falwell, voted Democratic in 1976. I think we can stop
holding it against him.
