Posted on 08/15/2008 7:34:59 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Roy Hertel, Montgomery County GOP chairman, while acknowledging that Obama’s being from Illinois won’t help, added, “I still think there’s enough stuff going on in Illinois right now that we can elect some Republicans that may have not had a chance to be elected before.”
One of those people could be Steve Sauerberg, the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Dick Durbin, said David Snider, a farmer in rural Tazewell County.
While Sauerberg faces an uphill battle, Snider said, “I don’t think it’s impossible.”
Republicans agreed their party stands to gain from what they termed the failure of all-Democratic control in state government.
“We’re looking forward to this election, where we can make some inroads and balance this thing up a little bit better,” said Rep. Rich Brauer, R-Petersburg.
Senate GOP Leader Frank Watson called Democrats “the party of arrogance.” “There has to be a political price to pay for the manner in which they’ve governed this state,” Watson said.
House Republican Leader Tom Cross added: “I think we have one question to ask voters in this state: Why on earth would anybody vote for a Democrat in the state of Illinois in November in 2008? The answer is they shouldn’t, and we will remind them of that, time and time again.” ...
At the Republicans’ fairgrounds rally, the featured speaker, retired U.S. Marine Col. Jack Jackson, credited the state of Illinois for sending “two of the finest men” to the White House — Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
“I want to tell you something, though,” added Jackson, a John McCain supporter. “Don’t send me a third. I want the next one to come from Arizona.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqIlXfkylD4
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case.”
Sen. Dick Durbin on the Senate Floor
Tell Dick Durbin to Moveon
I’ll probably tell Durbin to move on by voting for Chad Koppie, the only conservative, in that race.
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