The Summit County Republican Party may have discredited itself as a proud corridor of political power (i.e., money and influence) for the home stretch to the November election. You only need to review the video of the party's Lincoln Day dinner in February that's been posted on the locals' home page. In it, falsely absorbed by their own worth in national politics, the brass revealed a fawning embrace of its marquee speaker, then- GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Chairman Alex Arshinkoff allowed that Rick could be the "next Ronald Reagan" after applauding the candidate's "great speech".
A meaningless straw vote of the dinner guests (the biggest in Ohio, the hometowners boasted) gave the former Pennsylvania senator 74 pct. of votes. In return, Santorum, who told his audience that he had been an underdog in an earlier political life, praised the Summiteers as his kind of "grassroots party". Everybody apparently went home happy that they had a winner.
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Now what? Will Mitt Romney finally show up in downtown Akron? Or at least in Cuyahoga Falls, where Mayor Don Robert, a Tea Party welcomer, sat on the dais that night? Will Mitt remember that Santorum has shrieked that Mitt would be the "worst candidate" that the Republicans could nominate? Will the Akron Zips win more than one football game this year?
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I find it interesting that Team Romney has their headquarters in Stow away from Alex's operation in the Valley. Maybe it's just a simple acknowledgement that Akron is out of play.
My money is on the Falls. Robart was so proud of bringing Dubya there in '04. In the Lincoln Day Dinner video, Robart sat behind Santorum, solemnly nodding his head to all the crap Ricky was spewing.
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