Posted on 12/16/2006 3:42:27 PM PST by FairOpinion
What is the population of Illinois?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN "not sure what the Illinois GOP could have done"?
This is a GOP problem all over the G-D country! Aren't there ANY successful farmers, bankers, businessmen, local or state officials?
Barack Obama, pardon my French, was a nobody! You don't need a media personality with no qualifications to be dogcatcher (Ditka) to beat a nobody!
You need a somebody to beat a nobody! What's wrong with the GOP that they cannot find ONE SINGLE CANDIDATE for the US Senate in North Dakota, or Nebraska, states where Bush got over 60% of the vote?
Obama is the fault of the Illinois GOP, all right - but not because they didn't nominate Mike Ditka.
Who's on the bench? Where's the farm team?
Good words, Jim.
It is not possible to claim a higher moral standard and then not expect to be held to it.
As I understand it, Obama wouldn't be considered to be born Muslim unless his mother was Muslim.
No kidding! It didn't even mention the tireless work of Alan Keyes, who faithfully kept his word and remained in Illinois after the election. A lesser man might have collected the checks from Illinois conservatives and headed for the border as soon as the election was over, but not Mr. Keyes.
We all owe a debt to the Keyes' organization for being so true to its word. Thanks a bunch EV, we really appreciate it.
Well, if IL Republicans had put up a real candidate instead of the pathetic multi campaign loser Dr. Keyes, who knows what would have happened?
But, Dr. Keyes got 27%. None of the above could have gotten that much.
It certainly sounds like he does. But a politician has to be a fox as well as a lion to get reelected. That's not an excuse for the party, which was wrong to dump him though, but there are limits to how much a politician can antagonize his party.
Maybe Fitzgerald is good example of the kind of government we'd have if term limits had gone through: responsible citizen-legislators who aren't in Washington to feather their own nests. Sadly, the present system doesn't encourage such people to run for office.
It's highly ironic to listen to you people whine, considering the fact that it was your ilk who were doing Obama's heavy lifting for him during the IL campaign.
And you're still at it, obviously.
You never answered my question about Alan Keyes and his gay daughter.
Evidently the 2 parent household didn't work there did it?
I didn't vote for Obama you putz, I live in AZ. I just correctly pointed out to you that Keyes was in for a huge ass whipping. Its not my fault you were so freaking deluded that you couldn't see it (or the damage Keyes did to the Republican party in IL).
In IL, they really don't have one. The Combine, the combination of RINOs and amoral political hacks that run the IL GOP, have pretty much smashed any sort of conservative initiative. You can at least partially thank Karl Rove for that, by the way. Robert Kjellander, their corrupt national committeeman is a disgrace. And Rove handpicked him. These people are too busy lining their own pockets to worry about rebuilding the party. Besides, they couldn't do it even if they wanted to. They hate conservatives.
Everyone knew he couldn't win. He knew he couldn't win. But, he had the guts to fight for what we believe in anyway, no matter the odds, or the personal cost.
I know people like you can't understand that sort of attitude, but there it is.
Everyone but you.
And he trashed the Republican party in IL, all for what? Another stupid ego quest by Keyes. And there you were, all along drinking the koolaid.
Your attacks on Keyes based on the tragedy that he has experienced with one of his children show clearly that it is you who is the putz, putz.
He's handled the whole thing better than most could ever do under the same circumstances.
And, don't bother quoting the lies from the Democrat Media about it all, either. Unlike you, I know the truth of the matter.
He got more votes than Judy Baar Topinka just got in the gubernatorial race.
Trashed the Republican Party in IL? ROFL...
That's like saying someone made a mess in New Orleans a month after Katrina. LOL...
You can blame Keyes for losing, after all he lost. But trashing the Illinois Republican party? Please, if Keyes hadn't stepped in Illinois Republicans had two candidates ready to step up to the plate, Mike Ditka, a well known politician as you know, or a blank line on the ballot. You can't blame the lack of a candidate, for a Republican seat of all things, on Keyes.
Blank line would have cost less and been less embarassing.
Keyes has never won anything, not even close, he actively turns republicans off as was seen in the race. He hurts the party more than he helps.
As opposed to another 4 years of what? TooPinko ramming socialist programs down our throats.
You're right, given the "choices" I didn't care if Blago won and I didn't care if TooPinko won. I certainly didn't endorse Blago because he's an awful Governor, but that doesn't magically make Topinka "better". You might as well speculate on whether this nation would better off with Gore or Hillary at the helm.
BTW, despite running an extremely poor campaign Keyes STILL got 70,000 MORE votes in Illinois than "electable moderate" Topinka. Of course she didn't have the excuse of being an 11th hour replacement candidate to explain her pathetic 39% of the vote. If Topinka wants to see who's campaign was a "disaster", she should look in the mirror.
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