[Endeavor]

You mean Fitzgerald actually visited the State? Really??? He's been a non-entity here as far as I'm concerned.

Judy Barr=Topinka was exactly right in forcing Ryan off the ticket. I know for a fact, from one of Andy McKenna's operatives, that the stuff about Jack Ryan was known way before it came out. He lied to all of the Republican leadership in Illinois.

Alan Keyes is a HORRIBLE candidate. The only thing I blame Judy for is not running, herself. Our party in Illinois should be called the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight, but that isn't because of Barr-Topinka.

PS: Andy McKenna was my candidate. I'm a conservative Republican, but I'd rather see Barr-Topinka in the Senate over the socialist Obama. At least we'd have fiscal discipline w/Judy and a vote for the president!

[SJackson]

I can't disagree with anything you've said. Of course by stating the obvious, that Alan Keyes is a HORRIBLE candidate, you're now a "girlie guy" per some of his supporters. Soon Alan and the folk will be back in Maryland whining about the "girlie guy" RINOs in Illinois who just couldn't understand greatness. He'll run again, kind of like Harold Stassen, without any political victories to his credit of course.