Posted on 03/21/2006 2:33:54 PM PST by TitansAFC
This is an open thread for Illinois Freepers to talk about the GOP Primary Election today. Can Judy Baar Topinka be stopped?!?!?
Stay tuned!
GO Bill Brady!!!!!
if it is Topinka versus Blagoavitch, I'd vote to Rod. At least he didnt raise sales or incoem taxes....every tax increase in Illinois history was done by a GOP gov....ok ok I know there wanst a DEM gov in IL from 1976-2002
i dont think it is nearly as bad as NJ or CA or MI or OH for that matter
tradesports has Blago winning
I have said before and I say again that I think we must vote for Blago if Judy wins.
We must cut our losses to four years, and purge her from the party for good.
She would be a DISASTEROUS Governor, and the end of the IL Conservative movement.
Keyes was a joke..get real.
Too early for Tradesports, though I like them.
It'll change when the opponent is know for sure.
Maybe it's all that ice cream freezing yer brain?
A vote for Obie is a vote for a fool.
Did you hear how he proposed that the three conservative candidates settle who should face Topinka who is decidedly NOT a conservative candidate?
He said they should draw straws.
Yep. That's RIGHT, folks. This nut ball proposed a kids game to settle who would become GOVERNOR of a STATE!!! This guy is an idiot void of any sense of politics.
He proposed this as a SERIOUS idea. DRAW STRAWS!
He is a nitwit.
The straw game that Oberweis proposed heavily favored his odds.
That was a really dumb thing of him to do. It turned off several people I knew. Lets hope Brady can win this thing!!
Yeah, what a crazy idea. Drawing straws to see who should face Topinka.
Oh no, wait......I don't think it's crazy.
As a matter of fact, I'm glad SOMEBODY tried to come up with an idea to organize all forces against Topinka.
I wasn't hearing any better ideas from Brady or Gidwitz. They're content with Judy Baar winning (Brady and Judy are good buds, after all). At least Oberweis isn't happy with those results.
Gidwitz and Brady could care less if the whole state goes to hell, as long as they have a decent turnout so they can each declare themselves the front-runner for the 2008 Senate race.
I'll take someone who ISN'T okay with Governor Judy Baar Topinka over someone who is just FINE with Governor Judy Baar Topinka. I love Bill Brady; but after tonight, I have a feeling I'm really going to hate Bill Brady.
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You better double-check that, dude.
Polls in The Land of Lincoln will close at 7pm central time.
The 2006 election has begun.
Your're right. I was thinking of the local MSM favorite saint, Osama Obama.
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He has been sainted, and he's got that damn Senate seat for LIFE.
Somehow since 04, I've been taken off the voter registration roll! I wasn't on their list so I couldn't vote. Its BS cause I know I'm registered as they mailed me a absentee ballot in 04, and I got called for jury duty. I should call the drive by media and tell them minories in Cook County are being disinfranchised. Young white republicans are definatly a minority in Cook County!!!
If oberwies loses by one vote I'll be pissed.
The field of Republicans running in Illinois is so depressing, I'm amazed that any conservatives want to talk about it at all.
Well, then.
Maybe next time they can thumb wrestle? How about a nice game of tiddlywinks? Hell, it's JUST a Governor's race, eh? It's no biggie!
What this numbskull SHOULD have done is tried to work behind the scenes... but THAT would take political know-how. Something he has NONE of. Further more, he has NO political organization past his own political committees, MOST of whom work for him in the Dairy business!
Obie is worthless. Always was. Always will be.
But, I DO agree with one thing you sort of hit on. Illinois conservatives are NOT coordinated in any way at all. They all go off in different directions and have no sense of supporting each other. This race is typical of them. They offered three candidates! Not one which they could all get behind, but three designed to spread their votes out to the four winds and make them meaningless.
No conservative will ever make headway in this state until the grass roots decide to work together. But each conservative group in illinois hates the other and they all continually work against each other.
Every conservative candidate over the last 10 years has been so bloodied by other conservatives that he is forever useless after a run for office, a run he will invariably LOSE!
Cox - ruined
O'Malley - chased off
Salvi - ignored
Brady - given no support
Rauschenberger - not even given a shot
The Illinois GOP DESERVES to be on the outside looking in. They are a waste of time. Why do you think Karl Rove pretty much just IGNORES Illinois in all his machinations for Bush? Because he KNOWS that the Illinois GOP is a big fat NOTHING! No coordination. No leader. No sense of community. No plan.
Remember the Alan Keyes run? Why do you think that even happened? Because the Illinois GOP had NO IDEA what to do, no leader to look to and no plan.
You know how an old building is razed to the ground before the new one can be built? How every last stick, every last nail and board is torn down and carted off to the dump before new construction begins?
THAT is what the GOP needs. A TOTAL purge. This Party is merely a laughing stock.
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