Robert Novak's column reports that former Gov. Bob Ehrlich blames the Iraq War for his new status as an unemployed ordinary citizen:
Former Maryland governor Robert Ehrlich, a popular and effective Republican who had nothing to do with Iraq policy, believes his defeat was wholly caused by the war.Of course, one wonders why Ehrlich was the only incumbent governor to lose his job in November if it was solely the bad political climate caused by the War. Republican governors in such true blue Democratic states like Hawaii and Rhode Island managed to win reelection even as Bobby Haircut was shown the door.
