Posted on 03/27/2006 9:32:00 PM PST by LdSentinal
Yep. That's the scumbag Democrats for you - - turn America into a Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state.... France.... a little at a time.
This should be fun to watch at the DUmp...more to come on the DUFU? :)
This is a very weird article. "In the absence of a strong local party..." you mean Democrats? In Illinois? Yeah, they don't have a strong local party in New York either. What's this reporter smoking?
Tammy Duckworth is a genuine heroine -- one of the few "Fighting Democrats" who was actually in combat, most of them were JAGs, and the only "fighting" they did was for yardbirds and enemy detainees -- and I wish her well, speaking of course as a political opponent.
A race against a high-profile, lavishly funded opponent will put the fear of God into Henry Hyde, and that's not entirely a bad thing.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Illinois’s U.S. senators, Democrats Barack Obama and Dick Durbin, as well as Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), aided Duckworth’s campaign by recording phone calls to voters, endorsing her in direct mailings and raising money.
I don't blame Cegilis one bit for being PO'd. It sounds like she ran the better campaign and was barely beaten by 3%. Undoubtedly done in by Kerry, Clinton, Durbin and Obama.
I'm glad they are stuck running a Lame Duckworth.
Oops, I should have RTFA, Hyde is retiring and Roskam is the Republican in the race.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Thanks to the radical blog-fringe taking over, moderates like Duckworth and Lieberman are being driven out of the party. This is how the Democrats may well snatch defeat from the jaws of victory come this Novemeber.
DuPage County is heavily GOP turf, and has been as long as anyone I know can remember.
They even broke hard for Goldwater in 64.
There just isn't a strong Dem presence in DuPage.
There was a Dummie Funnies about this race within the past week that's a good read. William Rivers Pitt, a DU contributor, was part of the Cegelis campaign. He wrote a DU post after the primary 'snitting' over the Duckworth win. The funny thing about it was that he also unwittingly trashed Cegelis in the same post.
Here's the link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1602762/posts
Correct. Pied Piper Pitt, who worked closely in that election, poured poison down the wells of BOTH those Democrats. He called Lame Duckworth a last choice stooge of the Democrat bigwigs and also ensured that Cegelis' political career will remain forever BURIED by revealing that she was so inept that a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS of campaign funds disappeared right under her nose.
I'm not in the district (My congressman is Don Manzullo (R), 16th District). But I'm going to follow this race for the fun of it. But then, we do have friends in the 6th.
Duckworth has NOT been a wild eyed anti war warrior. THIS is why the crazy rat has come to hate her. This is no surprise. The crazy rat will not back any of the band of frauds who does not foam at the mouth against the war.
Health care and free trade????? Please IF Duckworth can't convince the old knee jerk rank and file Democrats she is for these things and she can't convince the crazy rat she hates the war and Bush, and she doesn't live in the district where do her votes come from?
If anybody finds discussion of this article in DUmmieland, please send me the link. Thanx.
The Cemetary Vote
This damages whatever chance the Democrats had of winning this district, and it was never more than an outside chance.
Evans has been battling Parkinson's for years, and I've wondered how long he was going to remain in Congress while battling it. Mo Udall forced himself to remain past his time, and only when he took a fall down a flight of stairs was he forced to retire. This district was GOP prior to Evans's defeating RINO Tom Railsback's Conservative vanquisher in '82, and it is rather similar to Jim Leach's seat across the river, IIRC. With the right nominee, we might take the seat back.
Lane Evans's retirement is great news for conservatives. He had used his seniority to stay in Congress despite being far more liberal than his constituents. The 2002 redistricting made the IL-17 much more heavily Democrat, but they are fairly conservative Democrats, as can be gleaned from the fact that President Bush's vote percentage rose from 44% in 2000 to 48% in 2004. Given that Evans's retirement comes after the primary, I think the most likely result is that the Democrats will select a conservative Democrat from the Quad Cities area as the nominee, and he or she will be favored in the general election. But a Midwestern district that gave President Bush 48% in 2004 is far from unwinnable for us, and we are running an attractive and experienced candidate in Andrea Lane Zinga: http://www.andrealanezinga.com/
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