[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!

[Thebaddog]

Ryan needs a voice coach to lower the range and make him sound like an adult.

[Ford Fairlane]

I never liked JACK! anyway

Too much resemblance to a used car dealer

I am pretty much between Wright & Raushenberger now, I think I like Wright more, but can he win statewide

His people have done some calculation & say that if he can get 200,000 votes in the primary he will win it, and I think he can come close to that since he is the only candidate from downstate

I guess they figure 200,000 will be the most anyone gets in the primary considering the number of candidates

[SelmaLee]

Thanks for the ping-I'm glad to see that we're on the IL list.

Sorry to say, but I don't think Jack! is hiding around here. We are so downstate that most IL politicians think we are part of Northern Kentucky.

In fact, I don't think any of Jack!'s campaign staff is hiding around here either - as I do not see any of his campaign signs. I do, however, see a lot of Rauschenberger signs in my little town.

[unspun]

Considering Mr. Jack Ryan, though not purporting to speak on his behalf...

..and considering the way of the conservative weather, some time between now and oh, one might guess EO Monday, Illinois conservatives better be hearing from that gentleman, for the sake of maintaining his base. And I don't mean by commercials.

I think the Rauschenberger crescendo is happening.