Future of Ryan's senate campaign in question

ABC 7 Chicago ^ | June 23, 2004 | ABC 7 Chicago

[reformed_democrat]

. . . the best Illinois can do is a drunk/druggie who beats his wife running against a lying public sex party kinky freak

You say that like it's a bad thing. :)

While the rest of the country is experiencing a return to sanity, we here in Illinois will continue to keep the freak flags flying.

[jmstein7]

This REEKS of the Democrat slime campaign in 2002 in Montana (the gay commercials thing).

[HamiltonJay]

What lie?

"there was nothing in the records that would be of concern. It was solely related to issues surrounding his child."

Ad the records are about the battle for custody of the child.... And again, what is there to be concerned about? THe man wanted to have sex with his own WIFE... how dare he! Where is the scandal? I'm just not seeing it.

Accussations made in a divorce, that the person who made them has already backed away from... (false accusations sadly are part of divorce proceedings, and are all too common.)

Calling this a scandal is like calling a splinter a mortal wound.

That he said his records were about the custody battle for his child? Records that a judge agreed were in the best interest to keep sealed for the sake of the child, by both parents... and now suddenly in spite of both parents still arguing to keep them sealed, the judge lifted his own seal?

Please tell me where is the scandal? I'm just not seeing it.

[DMZFrank]

Jack Ryan supports free markets, an individuals right to self defense in his own home with a handgun; notwithstanding any tyrannical local laws to the contrary, lower income taxes, general support for the war on terror to include the Iraq reconstruction, education vouchers, not allowing birthing baby's skulls to be cracked and their brains sucked out, and an end to racial preferences in affirmative action. I will support this man even if he doesn't get out of the race, since Obama is a polar opposite on all of these issues. One of the most important issues confronting the future of (small r) republican government is an increasingly activist and unconstitutional federal judiciary. In an interview with the St. Louis Dispatch on 5 Mar 2004, Obama said that the president has “demanded a rubber stamp for a handful of judicial nominees whose views are extreme and out of touch “and that “I believe a filibuster may be appropriate.” In truth, the president only wants the opportunity for an up or down vote of the full Senate for his candidates, ones that are less likely to see themselves as the sort of supernumerary legislature that Obama undoubtedly wants, and not the extra- constitutional supermajority vote requirement that the Democrats have imposed with their Judiciary Committee shenanigans. It is my hope that this contretemps will lead in a roundabout way to a discussion of the issues, since Obama’s extreme liberalism is DEFINITELY flying under the radar.

True, this development does not help Ryan's campaign, and does reflect poorly on his judgment. If he intended to stay in the race he should have released this material when it first became obvious that its release was inevitable. He could then have better controlled the timing of that release and had more time for its impact to be defused. We should assume that he will not drop out of the race as things stand now. If that is so, then we need to go on the offensive and highlight Obama's extreme liberal beliefs, voting record (particularly Illinois SB 101, which he co-sponsored with Carol Ronen, D-7th District which places Homosexuals, bi-sexuals, lesbians, and trans-gendered people as protected within the rubric of the Illinois Civil Rights Act), and contrast them to Ryan's beliefs. More finger pointing will only get us closer to electing the socialist Obama.

I would like to remind all that Saint Augustine, the greatest of the Latin fathers and one of the most eminent doctors of the Western church was pretty much a libertine until the age of 30. In 372 he fathered an out of wedlock child with a Carthaginian concubine that he named Adeodatus. ("Latin for the Gift of God") While I am by no means suggesting that Jack Ryan be canonized, I am saying that it is possible that the man’s philosophies on life have changed in 6 years, as may be evinced by his teaching in an inner city high school. I am compelled to give the man the benefit of the doubt, particularly when I consider the RADICAL SOCIALISTIC ALTERNATIVE to his candidacy.