DeWine, Brown lock horns with zeal in testy TV debate
2006-10-02
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
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rss feedWhen the Democrat says his opponent "should be ashamed of himself" and the Republican says his foe is on the political fringe and has a "very, very slim" record, you just know they won't get along.
And so Ohio Republican Sen. Mike DeWine and his re-election challenger, Democratic U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown of Avon, went at it on national television Sunday for 35 minutes of debate, with interruptions and disagreements on nearly every issue.
From Iraq to intelligence to taxes, DeWine, a 12-year incumbent, and Brown, a House member for 14 years, faced off on NBC's "Meet the Press" with a passion that underscores the stakes. A Plain Dealer poll released on Sunday put Brown ahead by 2 percentage points, 45-43, which is basically a tie because of the 4-point margin of error.
Whichever man wins the election on Nov. 7 could determine whether Democrats or Republicans rule the U.S. Senate. Here is a sampling of what the two candidates had to say on Sunday morning:
THE WAR IN IRAQ
Mike DeWine: "We cannot leave Iraq with the job undone. And we cannot set an artificial timetable. It would bring disaster. Just to set a date that we will be out, it will embolden the insurgents."
Sherrod Brown: "Now obviously we can't bring them out right now. . . . I say we need to order the military, instruct the military over the next year-and-a-half or two years, to come up with the exit strategy to do it in the safest, most orderly way."
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