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it appears that Ryan may infact step aside.
Soooo, which is it?
I still for the life of me don't see the scandal here... Even if everything is true in the allegations is true, he asked his wife for a hummer in front of other people she said no, and life went on......
Where is the damned scandal? I mean is having sex or wanting to have sex with your wife a crime now?
I think the real scandal of this whole thing is why a Judge unsealed records he originally sealed to protect their children... in spite of the fact that both parents argued to keep them sealed. If anything, THAT is the scandal... not the fact some married couple went to sex clubs, and heaven forbid even in the sex club wanted to have sex with each other.
Good riddance.
Just peachy! I suppose everyone that thinks Ryan is a dirtball also thinks Arnold should step down over the groping allegations.
or--
Dick Butkus, Illini All-American
or
Bonnie Blair-- Winter Olympian
or
"Ditka"
So Clinton can bang interns and remain president, but this guy bangs his own wife and is disqualified from being a senator? What the hell is wrong with America? I don't like what Ryan did, but what's with the double-standards our country keeps to. Think of this, Clinton was more popular for being impeached than Bush is for going to war to end a terrorist threat in Iraq.
Bottom line is the GOP doesn't win this race without the opposition making a serious mistake.
And I don't see that happening.
Fitgerald doesn't stand a chance against Obama......but former Gov. Jim Edgar would. I say we draft Edgar, although I highly doubt he would accept.
There is a war going on for the soul of the Illinois Republican Party. Our last governor, RINO George Ryan has been indicted on a number of corruption charges. George Ryan was a key player in what is known as the "Combine." The Combine is a loose confederation of fatcat Republicans and Democrats centered around Cook County and the Chicago area who tend to scratch each others' back when issues revolving around distribution of governmental power and funding emerge to create opportunities for graft and shady deals. A case in point is Bob Kjellander, Illinois Repulican National Comitteeman. Kjellander has been one of Illinois’ representatives on the Republican National Committee (RNC) for nine years. His charge is assisting the state party with electing Republicans in Illinois and helping the GOP Presidential candidate carry Illinois.
In one glaring case in particular Kjellander earned an $809,000 contingency fee for his efforts to promote Democratic Governor Blagojevich’s $10 billion bond deal at the expense of the Senate Republican caucus, Kjellander chose to subrogate his GOP interests to his personal pocketbook. The Illinois Republican chairman, Judy Barr Topinka would not even publicly announce her support for the incumbent senator Peter Fitzgerald prior to his withdrawing from the Senate race.
All of the Illinois Senate candidates had philosophical outlooks that are anethma to most of the Illinois Republican Party leadership. To a man all of them could be characterized as right of moderate to very conservative. Support for any of them from the combine could be at best characterized as lukewarm, as they wanted the sort of RINO that would continue to further their interests with Mayor Daley's Chicago and the Cook County Democratic apparatus. With one exception (Combiner Andy McKenna) the Republican Senate primary field were outsiders who might not go along to get along.
I believe the primary impetus behind dumping Jack Ryan is so that the Republican combine can get their own guy in. (Andrew McKenna, Jim Edgar, Jim Thompson, or even the awful Corrine Wood) Jack Ryan was just too conservative for their tastes, since he would be likely to retain the bulldog United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald who has been indicting and convicting members of the combine right and left.
"There would just be a revolt, there would be an
absolute revolt, if they used this as a pretext to take out
Jack and put in someone who could never win a primary,''
Fitzgerald said. "The Republican base would sit on their
hands in the fall.''
-- Senator Peter Fitzgerald Todays Sun-Times