Posted on 10/07/2010 7:24:34 AM PDT by Maelstorm
What does Illinois Tea Party candidate Michael Labno have to do to get some attention around here? Does he have to be more like Christine O’Donnell: should he make some bizarre comment about meatballs, get caught buying vibrators and boil some frogs?
Or does he have to be more like Illinois Republican candidate Mark Kirk: shall he create an imaginary life story where he single-handedly killed Osama bin Laden with his .50 caliber sniper rifle, was awarded a medal of honor and then devoted his life to reading fairytales to nursery school students?
On October 5, 2010, Rasmussen Reports announced that a “statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Kirk picking up 45% of the vote, while Giannoulias earns 41% support. Four percent (4%) back Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones. Another five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided.”
Rasmussen cannot justify its failure to name the “some other candidate” who has 1% more support than Jones. Disappointing. Rasmussen had a duty to name Labno in the interest of fairness to all parties, to ensure more accurate reporting by the media, and because voters rely heavily on polling numbers to help them make a decision.
Labno shouldn’t be ignored for his lack of wack.
Warning to Republicans (or those who are considering voting Republican): If you vote for Mark Kirk, you will be voting for a liberal. So, if you are going to vote for a liberal, then make it easier on yourself and simply vote for Alexi Giannoulias, since he’s the real Democrat.
Wait, before you get all worked-up and accuse me, an Illinois Democrat, of trying to persuade the right to lean left, please continue reading because my point has zilch to do with Giannoulias…I simply want to make sure that the person you vote for accurately and properly represents you.
Michael Labno may be your guy, instead of Mark Kirk. Why?
Kirk is a Republican. Or is he? Kirk voted to allow the government to confiscate your legally owned firearm in the event of a national emergency. He is pro-choice, saved millions in funding for Planned Parenthood and was just one of 17 Republicans to vote to fund abortions for female inmates. Kirk is for cap and trade and voted for TARP not once, but twice.
Labno is a self-proclaimed “recovering Republican; three years sober, officially.” He wonders why we still haven’t found Osama bin Laden and is disappointed with the Republicans’ support of the bailouts. He wants small businesses and community banks to thrive again. He is pro-life and pro-guns. Labno owns his positions and he hasn’t manufactured his qualifications or made up outlandish stories to gain support.
Fred Newbrough, one of Labno’s Facebook friends, wrote, “We are tired of the same old games by the GOP…Kirk is the most horrible candidate imaginable for the Senate. He isn’t even reliably fiscally conservative. The good thing is that you, Mike, are in the race. Illinois has a real choice: a Tea Party choice, a conservative choice, a libertarian choice.”
Illinois voters, before you allow a senator to drive you to Washington, make sure “some other candidate” isn’t hidden in a blind-spot; otherwise, he may crash before you even get to your final destination.
Yet you support his election. Do you support Durbin as well?
actually believes he is a loyal and honorable Republican.
No, merely better than the alternative.
I endorsed Al Salvi, your Combiner buddies endorsed Dick Durbin. As for the rest, the best alternative is Gov. Brady’s appointment when Alexi goes to prison. You just want a pro-abort, pro-illegals, pro-big gubmint Socialist liar cross-dressing as a Republican. Very curious you have NO problem with a chronic liar and fraud like Mark Kirk. Why is that ?
Me too!
your Combiner buddies endorsed Dick Durbin
They're not my buddies.
the best alternative is Gov. Brady’s appointment when Alexi goes to prison
Your hope is to get some fraction of 2 years if Alexi goes to prison? When is that happy day again? You never said.
Very curious you have NO problem with a chronic liar and fraud like Mark Kirk. Why is that ?
Very curious you have NO problem with a chronic liar and fraud like Alexi. Why is that ?
Yeah, right.
"They're not my buddies."
Pardon me. Your employers.
"Your hope is to get some fraction of 2 years if Alexi goes to prison? When is that happy day again? You never said."
The happy day is when the Combiner death grip is released from the IL GOP. Too bad your buds, er, employers, and, well, you, refuse to get them to let go of it.
"Very curious you have NO problem with a chronic liar and fraud like Alexi. Why is that ?"
Because he's not pretending to be a Republican like Mark Kirk. Keep the Socialist frauds and liars in the Democrat party.
Yeah, right.
And Williamson in 1992.
Pardon me. Your employers.
LOL! Keep that torch burnin' for Alexi.
The happy day is when ....
Alexi goes to jail. I know. So what's the date? Lay it on the line already.
And when it happens, we'll get what, a year....18 months before the special election? Or less?
Keep the Socialist frauds and liars in the Democrat party.
So that you can cheer for their election. I know.
Williamson... ah, yes, another pro-abort RINO. You do love your RINO Combiners so. Hey, Mr. Stroger, I must ask where you’ve been on our voluminous discussion threads of IL politics in the past ? I always find it interesting the troll gallery swarms in at election time to demand, on a Conservative website no less, that tainted Socialist DIABLO phonies MUST! be voted for, and questioning the credentials of long standing FReepers if we don’t, and just as swiftly disappearing when the liberal scum proves as disastrous as we rightly predicted. Well, I’m here every day, Mr. Stroger, championing the cause of Conservatism, not shilling for your leftist RINO scum. In any event, my case has been made and my record of being right long since proven. Yours, well, not so much. In any event, I’m declaring victory, so don’t pester me with your Mark Kirk masturbatory fantasies anymore today. Toodles !
Say hi to Alexi for me. Clown.
If Giannoulias and Brady win and Alexi goes to prison, whom should Brady appoint, to the U.S. Senate? I hope that he would appoint Rep. Roskam.
Yes, Roskam. Shimkus is another good one, even Don Manzullo.
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