Ted Strickland's supposed competence

Need a chuckle this morning?  In this otherwise bland article on the well know Republican names lining up to run statewise this cycle, we have this laugher:

“Strickland’s going to be very difficult to beat,” said Duncan, chairman of the political science department at the University of Dayton. “He certainly hasn’t done anything that suggests he’s not competent.”

Oh, really?

• How about failing to keep an important company from leaving the state?
• How about being honest about the budget numbers before the Democratic controlled Ohio House passes a fantasy budget that lacks “any relation to fiscal reality“?
• How about failing to have agencies run background checks on important employees before they resign in embarrassment?
• How about having a Director of Development (interim) that doesn’t pays his taxes? (To be fair, perhaps he learned this from President Obama)
• How about not having cabinet officials abusing their office, and violating people’s rights, for partisan purposes?

And that is just off the top of my head.  Is this competence?

And of course the number one concerns about Strickland’s confidence is the state of the Ohio economy: unemployment over 10% – the highest in a quarter of a century – and hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.

Again, I ask this is competence?  Yikes.