Famous Democrat returns to save party from midterm disaster

I live in the 17th District and can tell you Traficant will win in a landslide. Money won’t be a problem either as he has deep pocket friends and a following all over the country. Youngstown is unique in that most of our politicians are sleezy as Hell on all levels. Many have been jailed, the most recent being a county commissioner and a Common Pleas judge last week. The Youngstown area has never recovered from the collapse of the steel industry in the late ‘70’s early ‘80’s. Union corruption and greed has since destroyed much that was left. Traficant made his bones then when, as county sheriff, he refused to enforce foreclosures and was jailed for contempt. He ran the Sherriff’s department from a jail cell. Our current Rep., Tim Ryan (“Little Timmy Pelosi”) is worthless and Traficant will brutalize him in any debates. But Traficant should be seen as a net positive for conservatives- he’s strongly anti amenity, hates they IRS with a blinding passion, would never vote for cap and trade, has stated that he would not vote for Obamacare, his opponent, “Little Timmy Pelosi”, has heretofore been able to give quite a bit of money to other dem candidates but he’ll need every cent of it now (although it won’t do him an ounce of good) and, most importantly, he has a very big axe to grind with the dems and he won’t hold back- I can hear him calling them whores and every other name in the book and I can’t wait. While he is a convicted felon he’s a democrat so I don’t see that as being a downside. Don’t quote me on this but, if memory serves me correctly he voted with republicans 76% of the time. Lastly, Traficant’s conviction was not the first time he was charged with a felony. He successfully defended himself against R.I.C.O. charges involving accepting bribes from local mob bosses in the ‘80’s. He beat those charges but the IRS clipped him for not reporting the bribes as income and that is why he hates the I.R.S. with a blinding passion. Traficant is a folk hero here and you can take it to the bank that he’ll be on the House floor asking to be beamed up after 2010.

frank on December 18, 2009 at 7:18 PM