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Perhaps they didn’t think Hackett could hack it?
Via the NYT:
Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio’s closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders.
Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Harry Reid of Nevada, the same party leaders who he said persuaded him last August to enter the Senate race, had pushed him to step aside so that Representative Sherrod Brown, a longtime member of Congress, could take on Senator Mike DeWine, the Republican incumbent.
Mr. Hackett staged a surprisingly strong Congressional run last year in an overwhelmingly Republican district and gained national prominence for his scathing criticism of the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq War. It was his performance in the Congressional race that led party leaders to recruit him for the Senate race.
But for the last two weeks, he said, state and national Democratic Party leaders have urged him to drop his Senate campaign and again run for Congress.
“This is an extremely disappointing decision that I feel has been forced on me,” said Mr. Hackett, whose announcement comes two days before the state’s filing deadline for candidates. He said he was outraged to learn that party leaders were calling his donors and asking them to stop giving and said he would not enter the Second District Congressional race.
“For me, this is a second betrayal,” Mr. Hackett said. “First, my government misused and mismanaged the military in Iraq, and now my own party is afraid to support candidates like me.”
That was the race that, even though they lost, some Democrats spun into a win – as Eric Pfeiffer at NRO noted in this August 2005 piece.
Oh well – you win lose some and then you lose some, at least that’s how things are looking for Paul Hackett right now 
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Its too bad he’s not entering that congressional race. Its good he’s doing it because of integrity.
Hey Mr. Hackett, welcome to the new Democratic party. A bunch of idiots being lead by a pathological liar. If they can’t “use” you, then they don’t want you. – Lorica
Too bad the Democrats court him and then yank the rug out from underneath him when it suits thier purpose.
As long as you are useful to the democrats they will support you, when you no longer serve a purpose…….beware.
Hmmm…does this mean that the Dems are realizing that the angry, anti-war meme is not a winning hand for them anymore? It figures they’d go behind his back, just like they did to Lieberman in the last elections run up to the primaries.
I’m sorry, Andrew, but you’re going to have to explain to me what you just posted. I don’t doubt that the man has integrity, but it seems that his pulling out of the race isn’t a reflection of that.
“I’m sorry, Andrew, but you’re going to have to explain to me what you just posted. I don’t doubt that the man has integrity, but it seems that his pulling out of the race isn’t a reflection of that.”
He says he’s not going to run for the house because he promised people he wasn’t going to do it.
That’s not why he’s dropping out, andrew. He’s dropping out because his party betrayed him…but that’s what Democrats do.
“That’s not why he’s dropping out, andrew. He’s dropping out because his party betrayed him…but that’s what Democrats do.”
He was told they wouldn’t help him in the Senate race. Rather than have a primary fight, he drops out. He’s not taking up the House race because he promised he wouldn’t run for the House seat. The latter one is the one I’m talking about. He always seemed more like loose canon straight talking house material than senate material. Like a Tancredo.
Hackett wasn’t anti-war, he actually wanted a BIGGER war and that’s why the Dem’s finally asked him to find a new line of work. Perhaps he could carry Cheney’s snacks when the gunslinger is out hunting. Peace
Why is Hackett surprised? If you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
I know there is no IQ test for Congress (no Democrat would win if there was), but denseness of thinking like this……WOW!
Several of the leftwing bloggers are actually speaking of the dirty little secret that theres a internal clash coming to a head between the “working class progressives” and the “privaledged class” progressives. People like the Kos kiddies are finally seeing they’re used mainly as feet on the ground and an ATM machine, with no real power in the party. Welcome to the real world of politics kiddies. In the mean time they’re leadership even games its own members. Reid got on TV today and did a perfect “Dummy up act” over the Hackett dustup. Maybe the moonbats in the lower eschalons have finally found something apropos to disgorge all that anger on….
- Bang