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I admit I voted for Oberdouche because he was polling better than Brady. (and also I didn’t realize at the time how big a douce he was) And I voted for a certain RINO for President because I thought he was better than another RINO. I’d take both of those back.

I probably would have went for Rauschenberger but he quit due to to difficulty fundraising and bizarrely became the running mate of wealthy ‘moderate’ (but non-combine?) Rod Gidwitz.

Speaking of which NJ will get it’s first LT Guv, the nominees choose them after the primary.

RINO State Senate Leader Diane “Todd” Allen is an alleged top possibility.

You regret voting for Obie in 2006?, Impy? That's refreshing. :-) Seriously, I've talked with a lot of Oberweis supporters, and even AFTER they saw him lose a staunch Republican Congressional seat, they still drink the kool-aid that Obie would have been the perfect candidate against Blago in 2006 and all conservatives should have blindly voted for him in the primary. It's always, ALWAYS, someone else's fault when he loses, in their mind.

I do tend to cast "protest votes" in the primary for candidates who have little chance of winning, if I'm not happy with the 'front-runners'. It doesn't really do any harm unless the conservative vote is severely split and a RINO wins (though I think Phil Collins is right that Topinka's nomination is just as much Obie's fault and he should have sat that election out when we already had a number of good conservatives in the race)

In 2004, I cast a token "write-in" protest vote for Tom Tancredo in the GOP primary because I wasn't happy with Bush's immigration policies (it wasn't counted, as I learned later on, because Tancredo was not a declared write-in candidate) For the U.S. Senate race that year, I voted for State Rep. Jonathan Wright (who was polling about 2%), because I thought he was the most conservative candidate, had an impressive resume, and was a great speaker (Rauschenberger's record on immigration is also a little weak)

People are realizing in hindsight what a lousy field of choices we had in the GOP primary for President in 2008. I can't recall exactly, but I think Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo never filed the paperwork to get on the ballot in Illinois. My dad was a hardcore Fredhead, but Fred had dropped out by the time Illinois cast its vote on "Super Tuesday" in Feb., (Thompson was only "officially" in the race from Sept. 2007 - Jan. 3, 2008). The only candidates left at that point were McCain, Romney, Huckabee, and Ron Paul. My dad ended up voting for Huckabee along with me, but mainly because he couldn't stand McCain or Romney and wanted to cast his vote for anyone that could stop them. Even with Fred Thompson out of the race, his name remained on the ballot, so anyone who wanted to cast a pointless "protest" vote for him could do so (942 Illinoisans choose Thompson, for a total of 0.19% of the vote).

So has anyone figured out where Rick Merkt stands on social issues?

I used to live in Batavia and proudly voted for Lauzen for many years. The Milk Dud is bad news. The Sour Milk Man’s suddenly shift on illegals in 2004, was due to advice from a George Ryan adviser.

The Ryan adviser told the Milk Dud that he could distinguish himself from the other candidates by claiming to be tough on illegals. Unfortunately it opened up Oberweis Diaries to investigative reports by the Sun Times which showed the businesses hiring illegals. Ops! Another flip-flop by the Milk Dud.