Even Baby Huey Gets It Right In The End
By Jan Scotland
Guest Columnist
When I was a kid one of the most frustrating cartoons to watch was Baby Huey, which first aired in 1951. It featured a gigantic baby duck that seemed blind to the evil intent of foxes and wolves trying to kill him.
Throughout each episode, Huey was hit on the head with an iron pipe, smashed with a bolder or placed in a scalding hot tub by villains. The duck was so strong that the iron bars simply bend around his head, the boulders crack and crumble into dust. And the scalding water feels like a soothing bath that he thoroughly enjoys.
It is not until the end of the cartoon that it dawns on Huey that the villain is actually out to kill him. With his signature line
Good editorial, Mr. Scotland. I personally decided to withdraw from the Democratic party and once again become an independent. I've been an independent most of my voting life. About two years ago I became a registered Democrat. From what I've experienced with the Democrats in Northwest Ohio during the last two years, I'm not interested in continuing as a member of the Democratic Party. I do have a tid bit of critiisism for the Republicans, however. Today, the biggest problem we have in Toledo is our Republican Mayor. We all know he's a Republican and not a Democrat. If he is an example what we can expect from Republicans, I think I'll pass on the Republicans also and just be an independent.
I vote for both Republicans and Democrats. The rise of a truly independent party that raises it own candidates, and wins I think less likely. It seems all independent parties do is ensure that parties no longer have "landslides", but instead squeak into office. The Libertarian Party might be "right", but all they seem to be able to elect are people in some state offices. Heaven help this city if we ever went to a parliamentarian form of government. Nothing would get done.
We all know he's a Republican and not a Democrat.
Hey, that's BS - he did not have the Republican endorsement when he ran, he carried the endorsement of the Democratic party.
...Carty...Dems think he acts like a Republican and Republicans think he acts like a Democrat...He has 'tendencies' reflective of both party's general positions and philosophies...but make no mistake - his mayoral term is certainly not an example of what you could expect from a non-rino Republican....
Great article, Jan!!!!!!!!!
Doesn't matter if he received the endorsement from the Dem's. Philosophically he's a Republican. He couldn't get elected as a Republican so he quit that party decades ago and joined the Dem's so he could get elected. Simple, Democrat on the outside pure ultra, super right-wing Republican on the inside. Something like a sandwich cookie, but in his case its more like a jelly roll. Unless you watched the baker insert the jelly, you don't know what flavor you are going to get when you bite down on it.
It's not the first time I've heard that. Carty's support of Tom Noe, the repubs on the City Council supporting him, his republican past. It doesn't take a genius to know that it Toledo, if you change your "R" to a "D" you have a better chance of getting elected.