[MplsSteve]

I know that a lot of social conservatives are very disenchanted with her and probably wouldn't vote for her.

But I figure she's gotta be an improvement over Illinois' current governor.

At the very least, Judy Baar-Topinka would be a check on the Democrat-controlled state legislature.

[Graybeard58]

Can Topinka Turn Illinois Red?

Maybe if she were a Republican she could.

[Condor51]

George Will is CLUELESS on IL and Judas Barr Topinkavich.

She can turn IL 'red' alright. Make it freaking Communist. There is no difference between her and our current ijit RAT gubnor, Blago - except he has nicer hair.

Judas is of the criminal Combine enterprise school of gubmint which begot soon to be convicted FELON, Lyin' - Bribes For Licenses - George Ryan, RINO and CROOK.

Furthermore, Judas is as much of a 'republican' as I am a Thoracic Surgeon. She and the rest of the IL GOP insider gun grabbing 'moderates' can rot in Hades.

[RonF]

Republicans everywhere should hope a new poll is accurate in showing her three points ahead among registered voters.

Conservatives everywhere, however, might have a different opinion.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

And if the state party chairman gets his way, the senatorial candidate will be a former Yonkers mayor, who as a married man had two children with his unmarried chief of staff, which he says was "ironically'' fine because "I didn't have to make an appointment with my chief of staff to go over everything.''

Great, just what we need.

[Antoninus]

No thanks. We don't need any more RINOs, thanks very much George Will. They're absolutely killing us in the Senate.

[The Old Hoosier]

No, but she could color it PINK!

[reagan_fanatic]

Apparently to some, just having an (R) after your name is sufficient. Never mind the fact that Judy Bar Sinister doesn't have a Conservative bone in her body or that she acts more like a dimmocrat than the dimmocrats do.

[Clintonfatigued]

The unfortuante voters of Illinois have no good feasible choices.

[BillyBoy]

Like Condor said, I have little doubt Judas Barf TooPinko can turn Illinois "red" if she's elected. Our new state seal will look like this:

The whole "RINO governors magically DELIVER their states to the GOP" concept should be buried. We've been able to test this little "theory" nationwide under George Ryan, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, Christie Todd Witless, Jane Swift, Linda Lingle, and of course, Ahhhhhhhnuld. Conclusion: RINOs "deliver" for NOBODY but the left.

TooPinka and Bag-o-$hit are virtual clones on the issues. I think the only option in November is voting third party (and I say this as someone who thought Cal Skinner and his "JimRod the two headed turkey" third party message in the 2002 governor's race was stupid. (and to this day I think Jim Ryan, despite all his flaws, was far preferable to Rod's numbskill adminstration)

I'm not completely in Shufflebeam's corner yet but I'm keeping my options open to see if we can put forth the best third party candidate we can find.

[Vision]

Can Topinka Turn Illinois Red?

Why do people write articles with no grounding in reality? Are you familiar with Chicago?

[Flavius Josephus]

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