Prophet Without Honor II: Closer to home

After seeing my previous post on presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul's reported struggle holding on to his own seat in Congress (below), alert reader Michael Harlow of Colerain Township sent an e-mail while on the road, pointing out that another long-shot candidate faces trouble in his home district -- Ohio's own Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Flying Saucer.

True enough. The Cleveland Democrat, who dropped out of the presidential race last month, was emphatically un-endorsed Thursday by the city's major newspaper, the Plain Dealer. The PD spared little invective in lambasting Kucinich for conducting "two embarrassingly ineffective presidential campaigns" while his district "suffer(s) from economic decline and federal neglect." It favors City Councilman Joe Cimperman in the five-way Democratic primary race, saying the district needs a full-time representative "who can set aside personal ambition and self-righteousness."