Careful, Ohio GOP, you might pull something...

Wasn't it just yesterday I said that the Ohio GOP was already beginning to overreach and was practically broadcasting that they are going to over-politicize this? Yeah, it was. Here's ORP chairman heir apparent/Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine, who sounds practically unhinged over Dann (HT: Dispatch):

"We'll be linking this corrupt individual to each and every (Democratic) officeholder that will be on the ballot this fall, all the way from the president's office down to the county coroner," state Rep. Kevin DeWine, of Fairborn, said yesterday. DeWine, who also is deputy chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, made the remark as a guest on the Capitol Square program on the Ohio News Network.

Note that Kevin DeWine made no mention of impeachment; it's all politics. Furthermore, I don't see any reason anyone who received a campaign donation from Marc Dann is now tainted. Frankly, if I were such a candidate, I'd say, "I appreciated the Attorney General's support at the time, but obviously I don't approve of his recent actions and find them indefensible and I wish he'd resign." If someone then asked if I planned on returning it, I'd point out that it's already been spent, so there's nothing to return. Unlike in Coingate, there's no evidence that Dann has been involved in serious campaign finance violations like Tom Noe did. And as far as I can recall, I don't think the Bush campaign ever returned any of Tom Noe's money or the money he "bundled."

Oh, and as for the Ohio GOP "new development" that State Rep. Kevin Bacon (R-"A Few Good Men") believes Dann may have committed perjury by revising his earlier statement?

On the same ONN program, Mark Collins, one of the attorneys for sexual-harassment complainants Cindy Stankoski and Vanessa Stout, said . . . Dann's last-minute change in his sworn statement about whether Jessica Utovich, his scheduler to whom he was romantically linked, stayed overnight at his Dublin-area condo probably doesn't amount to perjury under oath, as Republican officials have suggested.

When even one of the attorneys for one of the actual victims says that Marc Dann didn't commit perjury, that says something.

Thank God for the inherent stupidity of the Ohio Republican Party by leaving Kevin DeWine unmuzzled. He's now broadcasted to the entire state that whenever the Ohio Republican Party speaks of Marc Dann, it's nothing more than a cynical political ploy to help the GOP win elections this fall. Simply brilliant. Marc Dann is a sleaze ball who fumbles the ball for the Democrats, and Kevin DeWine, with an open field, runs it all the way back only to spike the ball at the one yard line in a premature touchdown celebration. Bob Bennett is probably being begged never to retire now, but he can't hear them cause he's too busy laughing at that DeWine kid.

Somebody remind me again why we lost to these idiots for so long?!?