When they're "reminded" about Fitzgerald and can't feign amnesia anymore, they'll resort to repeating the GOP establishment's history revisionism that Fitzgerald was a fluke who "couldn't have gotten elected again", instead of the reality at the time that Fitzgerald was very popular with rank and file Illinois voters, but the Topinka and Ray LaHood lead RINOs forced him to retire by threatening to "take him out" in the primary because he wasn't playing ball with their corrupt RINO criminal George Ryan.
Bottom line, Chicagolady is right: 1010RD is part of the problem here in Illinois, and one of the reasons liberals are out of control in this state. If we listened to 1010RD, we would have nominated "electable" Loleta Dickerson instead of Fitzgerald and we would have had a Olympia Snowe type Senator at best.
Hell, we would have had gay marriage in this state back during the December 2012 lame duck session, since the RINO wing of the party and the Kirkbots insisted at the time that it was a done deal and we should surrender to the Dems instead of "wasting" resources (what we learned yesterday is the RATs couldn't even muster the votes with a veto proof majority in BOTH houses AND resorting to attempting to bribe/blackmail black legislators in safe Dem districts who are against gay marriage).
Since we actually put up a fight instead of surrendering like the Dems/RINOs wanted us to, their "inevitable" gay marriage has gone nowhere for months and they've lost the momentum. Now they want to push it back to the November veto session, and good luck keeping those RINOs on board in November once they have primary challengers who file against him. Many sources think the Dems are now going to give up and try to make it an issue in the 2014 election. So much for the RINOs who wanted us to cave to our liberal overlords.
If I could only take you seriously.