Why not be proud of your Republican Party?

While driving home from church this morning, and surveying the landscape which included many candidate signs in the public right-of-way (don't you elected and appointed officials know and follow the laws?), it struck me that our representatives in the Ohio legislature must not be proud of their party. Unless it is in very small print at the bottom of their signs, State Senator Mark Wagoner and State Representative Barbara Sears appear to be running away from the Republican Party by not proudly stating "Republican" on their campaign signs.

Now if these folks were truly independent officials and not deeply tied to the special interests (big energy, big health care, big banking and others) and didn't pocket huge campaign donations from these folks, this would not be such a big deal. But take a look at their campaign finance reports and you'll see the corporate PACS dominating their contributor lists with the implied expectation that Ms. Sears and Mr. Wagoner will continue to do their bidding in the state legislature at the expense of every day Ohioans.

So I say to Mr. Wagoner and Ms. Sears the following: Be PROUD of your Republican Party which has brought us to the brink of the worst financial crisis since the great Depression. Don't run away and hide. Be courageous and run with George Bush and John McCain (whom you undoubtedly support), unless, of course, you're willing to disavow all the special interest PACS which fund your sometimes ugly campaigns. I won't hold my breath waiting for you folks to return the obscene amounts of money which hold you hostage to big business concerns. I don't want to turn blue in that futile pursuit.