Posted on 07/05/2004 11:52:53 AM PDT by SpyderTim
Edited on 07/06/2004 4:40:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Over 90% of the RYP members that contacted us after Jack Ryan's decision to end his campaign for the U.S. Senate, have expressed their belief that Jack should have continued with his campaign on the issues. We have heard nearly universal disappointment and outrage that a few in our local GOP were allowed to gin up media pressure for him to withdraw - even in the face of continued strong support from national Republican leaders.
We have responded to this message and have initiated the BRING BACK JACK! petition drive.
This decision was based not only upon our conversations with fellow RYP members, but also with other Republicans around the State who also don't buy the line floated by a few in our State GOP leadership who claimed that a groundswell for Jack to withdraw existed. What we hear is overwhelmingly just the opposite, that the vast majority of Republicans want Jack to forge ahead on the real issues of this campaign.
Jack Ryan’s integrity and vision were tremendous assets to this race and he would have been a great advocate for Illinois residents in Washington. But now, the fading George Ryan Wing of our IL GOP is trying to claim yet another victim. Let's not let that happen!
Jack Ryan is still on the ballot until he officially files the paperwork to withdraw with the Board of Elections. As of today, he has not made the withdrawal official by filing.
The 19 members of the State Central Committee who would now choose Jack's replacement were never elected directly by you - the Republican voters of Illinois. But now they seek to substitute their judgment for that of Illinois Primary voters who registered their choice overwhelmingly in March.
With all of the other past and current problems in our State Party - did Jack Ryan really deserve to be the first one thrown off the train?
Sign the BRING JACK BACK! petition and encourage Jack Ryan to continue his campaign for the U.S. Senate and stop a few from the State GOP from disenfranchising the Republican voters of Illinois.
After all, shouldn't the voters decide?
REPUBLICAN YOUNG PROFESSIONALS (RYP)
What is RYP?
REPUBLICAN YOUNG PROFESSIONALS (RYP)
Republican Young Perverts apparently.
Very interesting. But I'd still rather bring back Peter Fitzgerald.
I find it to be absolutely a galactic-scale injustice that this dweeb had Jeri Ryan while I haven't.
Did the Chicago Tribune pull a low-down dirty trick on him? Absolutely.
Is it healthy in a democracy for divorced people to worry that if they attempt to participate in the political process they might be exposed to an unfair airing of the intimate and private details of their marital life? Absolutely not.
But Ryan has a problem over and above an airing of the intimate and private details of his marital life. Because that unfair airing has already taken place, the voters of Illinois now know that he hoped to present his wife for sexual display to a bunch of strangers, and, despite his highly disingenuous claims to the contrary, that he was intending to engage in group sex activities with her. That's what sex clubs are ultimately designed to encourage, and it's naive to think Ryan was somehow morally corrupt enough to want to go a sex club, but too morally pure to consider participating in the usual club activities, after, of course, he'd succeeded in acclimating his wife to the club ethic.
That kind of information in the hands of Ryan's political enemies is just too much to overcome. If he'd campaigned from the get-go as a libertine, he might stand a chance of defending himself, but as it is, he's finished in politics.
Well if the accusations in the sealed divorce decree are true, perhaps he would have been willing to share.
If you had told me that even a week before the divorce, I'd have written you into my will.
Why would anyone want to bring back a candidate that has no chance at all of winning? He's not even a good protest candidate.
I hear what you're saying, but then again this is Illinois we are talking about. It has been and continues to trend left, towards the Democrats. Soon it will be the Midwestern California where the sheer population of the leftwing urban areas will overwhelm all other state opposition.
Ryan should have been more forthcoming, but the people of Illinois are about to elect one of the most extremist leftwing candidates to the Senate. And with the Dem-favoring demographic changes in the state, he will likely be there for a long time.
Just about any Republican would be better. With Ryan perpaps there was a chance, albeit a small one. I believe there were some polls that showed that he had finally pulled to within single digits when the scandal broke, and seeing as how neither of the two former (popular???) GOP governors (Edgars and ???) are willing to get in the race perhaps Ryan was still the best shot they had.
But lets face it; if Illinois is so far gone so as to prefer a guy like Obama then perhaps not even Fitzgerald could have won with the power of incumbency behind him. I mean, Kerry will win the state in a landslide which will in turn probably give Obama a further boost. It seems pretty hopeless there to be honest.
Anyone who can get Jeri (7 0f 9) to do kinky things in a Paris sex club has my vote, dammnit. I want him back on the ballot.
Man you got that right! The two of them were married anyway at the time, so who cares? Liberal double-standards and hypocrisy strikes again.
Any chance of resurrecting Everett Dirksen ?
Well I was just thinking about how Republicans had held the governorship for something like 20 yrs until 2002. Admittedly they were moderate-liberal Republicans (right???), but that is usually better than a Democrat.
Plus, the state was carried by Bush I in 1988 and by Reagan twice, so it wasn't too long ago that the GOP could compete and win in statewide races. Now, that no longer appears to be the case.
Well, now that I think about it, in Presidential elections it has been a long time.
I'm not so sure about the inevitability of a Jack Ryan defeat. The spectacular nature of Barack Obama's primary victory served to focus an intense amount of positive media scrutiny of him by an amenable liberal media.
Both Ryan and Obama had the sort of good looking charisma that canceled the other's out, with some liability attaching to Ryan since he does not have a married family with children as Obama does. Despite that, I think that their respective glamour would tend to negate the beauty contest aspect of the race, and bring the focus more in line with issues. It is my hope (perhaps naïve in Illinois) that once voters get a load of Obama's unabashed liberalism, that they would have decided in favor of Jack Ryan. I don't think those numbers in favor of Obama would have held up over time.
There is a war going on for the soul of the Illinois Republican Party. Our last governor, RINO George Ryan has been indicted on a number of corruption charges. George Ryan was a key player in what is known as the "Combine." The Combine is a loose confederation of fatcat Republicans and Democrats centered around Cook County and the Chicago area who tend to scratch each others' back when issues revolving around distribution of governmental power and funding emerge to create opportunities for graft and shady deals. A case in point is Bob Kjellander, Illinois Repulican National Comitteeman. Kjellander has been one of Illinois’ representatives on the Republican National Committee (RNC) for nine years. His charge is assisting the state party with electing Republicans in Illinois and helping the GOP Presidential candidate carry Illinois.
In one glaring case in particular Kjellander earned an $809,000 contingency fee for his efforts to promote Democratic Governor Blagojevich’s $10 billion bond deal at the expense of the Senate Republican caucus, Kjellander chose to subrogate his GOP interests to his personal pocketbook. The Illinois Republican chairman, Judy Barr Topinka would not even publicly announce her support for the incumbent senator Peter Fitzgerald prior to his withdrawing from the Senate race.
All of the Illinois Senate candidates had philosophical outlooks that are anethma to most of the Illinois Republican Party leadership. To a man all of them could be characterized as right of moderate to very conservative. Support for any of them from the combine could be at best characterized as lukewarm, as they wanted the sort of RINO that would continue to further their interests with Mayor Daley's Chicago and the Cook County Democratic apparatus. With one exception (Combiner Andy McKenna) the Republican Senate primary field were outsiders who might not go along to get along.
I believe the primary impetus behind dumping Jack Ryan is so that the Republican combine can get their own guy in. (Andrew McKenna, Jim Edgar, Jim Thompson, or even the awful Corrine Wood) Jack Ryan was just too conservative for their tastes, since he would be more likely to help retain the bulldog United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald who has been indicting and convicting members of the combine right and left.
According to the local news, the top 3 replacements are Jim Ryan, Jim Durkin, and Steve Rauschenberg (sp?). I don't want Jim Ryan. He ran a lazy campaign against Blago in 2002. Ryan allowed Blago to get away with lying to Downstate folks about his gun grabbing voting record. Ryan only carried Downstate by 52-46. Ryan is a braindead campaigner. Maybe Durkin has chance. Perhaps Durkin could fool swing voters into thinking that he is Sen. DICK Durbin. LOL!
If there were a GOP presence in Illinois that would support Fitzgerald, he could probably win. But with the RINO machine actively engaged against Fitzgerald (because he has the audacity not to let RINO crooks continue their activities unmolested) he'd be toast.
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