[Rollee]

This is interesting. Also, Mr. Ryan chose not to grace the Southland with his presence last night. I think all of this ducking, dodging and blowing off is going to cause him a lot of trouble.

[Rollee]

I hope I'm pinging correctly. I'm not a good pinger, but practice makes perfect.

[JohnnyZ]

I'll repeat my comment from another thread:

Jack Ryan and Steve Rauschenberger are good guys and good conservatives. There's a lot of good reasons they were the two finalists in the Leader survivor competition.

That being said, I think Jack is much the stronger general election candidate, and will win the primary fairly easily.

[TheRightGuy]

Also, Mr. Ryan chose not to grace the Southland with his presence last night. I think all of this ducking, dodging and blowing off is going to cause him a lot of trouble.

I hear he also no-showed at Schaumburg FIRST event a couple days ago, and ended up only drawing 6% in their poll. He came into last night's event with over 20% and got out at 4%.

He'd better start steeping up to the plate soon IMHO.

[TheRightGuy]

I think all of this ducking, dodging and blowing off is going to cause him a lot of trouble.

Hey CL, You're still pumping for the Milkman, right!

He sure took a couple of well aimed squirts at Jack! last night. Is there any new buzz coming out of his camp about Jack!O?? I have a feeling there may be something he's holding back until the right moment.

[TheRightGuy]

Also, Mr. Ryan chose not to grace the Southland with his presence last night.

All the candidates last night expressed some degree of exasperation about Ryan's no show. Dr. K expressed something, but nobody was quite sure what it was.

General Borling was probably the most determined to get his hands on Ryan.

Any Borons, ooopss I mean Borling supporters, out there?

[thedugal]

I can't even begin to describe how sad this thread makes me, particularly seeing it on FR. I'm utterly befuddled.

[TheRightGuy]

Illinois Frepper Mega Ping!

Has anyone, and I mean anyone, upstate, downstate, outstate ... anywhere ... seen Jack! Ryan in public where the press or other candidates could get after him!

Word has it he's holed up waiting for the pizza guy.

We need news of any confirmed sightings!!

It seems Jack!'s gone missing because of unanswered questions that seem to keep arising. Enquiring minds want to know:

• What about those sealed divorce record's Jack!, open 'n up!
• How's 'bout those income tax returns Jack!, let's see 'em.
  
• How come you're maybe losing endorsements because of the FirstHealth debacle, why wasn't it disclosed?
• And Jack!, now we're hearing that maybe not all those kids from Hales Franciscan maybe didn't go on to college.
• Why won't you step up to the plate and torch Kjellander? You can no longer pretend you never knew anything about it.

Paging Ryan, candidate Jack! Ryan (Harrison Ford need not apply).

The answers to these questions aren't going to kill your candidacy, but FAILING to answer them might. Don't think you can go missing, sit on your lead in the polls, and speak to us only via your TV ads through election day . If you should get lucky and hang on to win, we want to be able to support you come November. But with questions like these outstanding, the 'RATS will chew you up and spit you out!

If you can't fess up to us, how can we back you? We want to elect a candidate who can go toe-to-toe with Tom Daschle, and you seem to be havin' a hard time goin' toe-to-toe with your own supporters. An that's a fact, JACK!