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If it wasn’t for Oberweis, I think Brady could have won and beat Blago..

If it wasn’t for Brady, I think Oberweis would have beat Blago in the general and Chris Lauzen would be a Congressman Today.

I agree with you. Since Oberweis lost statewide primaries in 2002 and ‘04, he should have known that he would lose, in ‘06. He should have dropped out and endorsed Brady, in Sept. ‘05. I walked seven precincts, for Brady, Jan.-Mar. ‘06.

I was on conference call for an ICRC meeting a few weeks ago, and many of Oberweis supporters were STILL whining about how Jim was destined to take out to Blago in 2006, and only failed to do so because conservatives didn't blindly support him.

It amazes me how many Oberweis fans continue to insist that the eeeeeeeeeevil State Senator Bill Brady is all to blame for 2006, and if not him, Obie would have coasted to victory and taken out Blago in November (despite it being a terrible year for GOP candidates across the board and not one Republican in the country defeating a sitting RAT Governor). They continue to insist Obie would have won statewide, even after seeing he twice failed to win a "safe" GOP district that just about any Republican should be able to carry even if they stayed home in bed and phoned in the entire campaign.

Of course the polls say otherwise about Obie's statewide prospects, they repeatedly showed that Oberweis was the WEAKEST of the major GOP candidates in the 2006 primary (Oberweis, Brady, Topinka, Gidwitz), and was losing to Blago by over a 10 point margin in head-to-head hypocritical matchups.

In all fairness, Jim Oberweis is actually a pretty nice, decent guy if you meet him in private, but he's just a very poor political candidate and can't get elected dogcatcher. The Oberweis groupies are in complete denial about this. They simply cannot accept that Oberweis ever does anything wrong in his campaigns, and election after election, demonize and blame all the other GOP candidates who ran against him in the primary(Jim Durkin, Jack Ryan, Bill Brady, Chris Lauzen) for Jim's failures. It's amazing. No matter how many times he loses, they will continue to blindly support him.

I am absolutely convinced that if Jim Oberweis announced tomorrow that he wants to run for some high office in 2010, his fans would immediately demand every other Republican on the planet stay out of the race and endorse Oberweis, and they would begin accusing anyone who failed to do so (no matter how solid their conservative credentials) of being an secret member of the RINO combine.

I have never seen a candidate that inspires such blind, foolish loyalty, despite never holding any office in his life. I just can't figure it out. At least Harold Stassen's supporters gave up on him around his fourth campaign or so.