And Chicago, driving the rest of the state, with no options other than Democrats because to be anything other would get you run out of town... or worse.
As much as I would want to cast a ballot for Jeanne Ives in the gubernatorial prinary were I an IL resident, I would vote in the Democrat primary if I lived in IL-03. Dan Lipinski is a breath of fresh air in a House Democrat caucus with only one other true pro-lifer (Collin Peterson of MN-07) and just three others who ever cast pro-life votes (Henry Cuellar of TX-28, who votes pro-life around half the time, and Jim Langevin of RI-02 and Marcy Kaptur of OH-09, both of whom used to be pro-life but now only occasionally vote the right way), and I would hate to see him replaced by a pro-abortion Marxist (particularly given that the GOP nomination in that district will go to the only person running in the GOP primary, a literal Nazi who is no more Republican than Bernie Sanders).
This masthead editorial by National Review is 100% spot-on. Vote for the conservative Ives over the RINO Rauner (who can’t even claim that he’s more electable anymore) in the GOP gubernatorial primary, unless you live in IL-03, in which case your vote would be more useful being cast in the Democrat primary for Congressman Lipinski (and, if I may add, for the weakest Democrat gubernatorial candidate among the frontrunners, so as to increase Ives’s odds of winning the general): https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/jeanne-ives-illinois-governor-endorsement-rauner-forfeited-conservative-support/
I once had a guy ask me about politics, and I told him I was pretty conservative so I tend to vote for Republicans. He told me that because I was conservative didn’t mean I couldn’t vote for democrats. I immediately burst out laughing.
Lipinksi Jr. is more conservative than every other Chicago area democrat and one of their only pro-lifers in Congress but that doesn’t make him a conservative.
He’s a moderate. If rats were wise they’d make room for his ilk.
Naturally there is no place for actual conservatives in the rat party, that wouldn’t make any sense, they’re the leftist party, no conservative in their right mind wants a thing to do with them. The silly days of party affiliation not being based on ideology are over.
Lipinski is no conservative. His district covers one of the most Catholic areas in the Chicagoland. Lots of Eastern European folks there. Most people don’t know but there are more Polish people in Chicago than there are in Krakow.
He panders to the Catholic base every two years. Then votes almost in lockstep with Pelosi.
Shed no tears for him.
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