Posted on 09/15/2010 7:30:24 AM PDT by Lexluthor69
So, whatever the case maybe, she is the candidate, and it’s time to do whatever we can to help her win.
Let’s hope the GOP professionals can assist her to get elected without compromising her core principles of smaller, less intrusive and cheaper government and stop undercutting their candidate as Rove and some of the other establishment idiots have done.
Flushing out Castle was good news.
Now they should be forced to support her.
On what basis do you conclude that I was gleeful about it?
I wonder what election you were referring to.
The 2004 Senatorial election in Illinois. Jim Ryan (no relation to the corrupt governor) was the GOP establishment's front runner to replace Sen. Fitzgerald (R-IL), who resigned because the establishment didn't like him and was running opposition against him in the GOP primary. Sen. Fitzgerald had a nasty habit of appointing U.S. Attorneys who actually did their jobs and exposed corrupt politicans at the highest levels instead of just hanging the low-level types and letting alone the establishment members.
Jim Ryan was looking good until the supposedly sealed papers concerning his divorce from Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: The Next Generation's 7 of 9) were opened up and salacious allegations regarding his relationship with her were exposed.
He withdrew. The conservatives in the GOP were given their heads, promptly lost them and nominated Alan Keyes, a resident of Maryland at the time. Whatever you think of Alan Keyes, there's no way he was going to come in from out of state and win a Senate seat in Illinois. He lost to then-State Senator Barak Obama 72% to 28%. That catapulted Barak Obama to a national platform. Without that win there's no way he runs for President in the 2008 election.
Ditka vs. Obama in 2004 would have meant no President Obama ever.
Looks like a series of errors.
The GOP should have stuck with one of the first two.
I like Keyes but he was percevied as a carpetbagger and actually was not too eager to get involved, if I recall correctly.
But it would seem to me that the reason the first two left and the reason Keyes was called in, was because of choices the establishment GOP made.
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