Posted on 03/08/2008 7:56:08 PM PST by The_Republican
A longtime Republican district fell to the Democrats Saturday when a wealthy businessman and scientist snatched former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's congressional seat in a closely watched special election. Democrat Bill Foster won 52 percent of the vote compared to 48 percent for Republican Jim Oberweis. With 565 of 568 precincts reporting, Foster had 51,140 votes to Oberweis' 46,270.
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I agree that Oberweis likes to bully supporters of other republican candidates, to persuade them to join him. During the Nov. 2005 meeting of the Republican Assembly of Lake Co., Oberweis was the guest speaker, so that he could talk about his governor campaign. He said, “State Senator Brady is taking votes from me, helping Judy Topinka, so he should drop out and endorse me.” I thought that Brady could easily say that Oberweis was taking votes from Brady, but I never heard Brady say that, since he was more considerate. His campaign was less negative, stressing his conservative views and his experience in the state legislature, since Oberweis had lost all of his elections.
Actually B O = Islofascism
Hillbill= socialism/marxism
“well you don’t just hope and pray he picks a good VP. You give it to him straight. “
He needs to have advisors smart enough to pick up on the conservative base’s issues and tell him as much. I dont have his cell phone # to tell him myself. :-)
its pretty clear the VP pick would be a signal. it’s tough, though, because if there was a unifying and popular conservative-base-vote-getter, he’d have been in the race and won!
McCain will have to do all that *and* think outside the box ... Here’s how. Pick this woman:
http://blackburn.house.gov/
Marsha Blackburn is clearly more conservative than John McCain on immigration and other ‘hot-button’ issues. If, as I suspect, Obama wins and Hillary does not make it on the ticket, we will have a situation then where the ONLY WOMAN ON THE TICKET WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE!
I’d like Haley Barbour myself for nailing down the base and getting the ‘competence’ issue on his side. Barbour did okay post-Katrina.
. Romney is not a half-bad pick as McCain needs an economic boost. you might not be a fan, but 4 million primary voters were, and Romney had the best campaign organization and is a good articulate messenger on what we need to do wrt economics.
But I think McCain’s pick, if it is to nail down multiple things, southerners, conservatives, and drive a bit into the ‘womans vote’, it wouldnt hurt to go Blackburn route at all.
Whaddaya think?
Haha! My sentiments exactly.
I like her. But I’m afraid it won’t go down well outside of those who already know of Marsha or who are ok with whomever McCain picks.
There are millions of conservatives who never heard of her.
I think it would seem like she came out of nowhere and that McCain was pandering. Somehow trying to thread the needle by appearing to want “change” by picking a woman while simultaneously picking a very conservative woman to mollify conservatives.
The thing is, I like the idea of Mike Pence. No, he isn’t perfect. But this man will sell. He has gravitas. Yet he looks young and is telegenic.
So, you say he isn’t known very much more than Marsha. Fine, I agree. However, for an unknown, I’m confident he could sell to the public extremely well. I can’t say I have that confidence that the ignorant public would buy Marsha when SHE comes from nowhere.
Mike Pence has white hair. Two white haired white guys. I say, might as well go for a big contrast.
We don’t need to sell a VP to the ignorant masses. We need to sell a potential President. People will have McCain’s age and health in the back of their minds. Pence would help enormously with that.
There is something very reassuring about him.
Did I fail? Did you fail?
Maybe we contributed. But, the movement got bigger & the Internet facilitated the factionalization that big movements generally undergo anyway. Add to that the professional political bureaucrats that came to believe that they could "manage" us, and here we are. When we really feel threatened enough, we will stop eating each other and begin to take back ground.
That’s too bad... cause, the Dem’s will use this race to dishearten Pub’s around the country who don’t know this.
well as I always point out, there are really 4 legs of conservatism. social, fiscal, security and the 4th one is practical experience. Marsha doesn’t satisfy the 4th leg and that’s a bigger problem than not having a woman on the ticket.
I think Mark Sanford deserves it. He was one of the newt revolutionaries and he really believed in it. Unlike many others who turned into pork deliverers, he kept his term limit pledge and became governor (and re-elected). He challenged his own party when they wanted more spending. He’s like mcCain in that respect (and that’s why it’s hard for me to not appreciate him) except that he goes all the way and completes the picture.
Kick the RINO’s out - one by one.
At least Bush vetoed the no water boarding bill. One more thing I can give him credit for with so much against him. I had high hopes for him in his first term. He went bad on me, not the other way around.
Yes, you make great points about 2010 and 1994. We can only hope or like you said, the country is screwed, not just conservatives.
Scary for sure. And even with a McCain win, we can’t be certain the 20 million illegals won’t be given amnesty.
The lame stream media is falling apart, which is our only hope.
Blackburn has not much less experience than Obama.
Sanford would be good.
Disprove a word I said.
Well I certainly didn’t see that coming. Doesn’t bode well for the fall.
I want a clear difference. Gov Palin is also not ready yet and she is expecting.
Gov Sanford is in favor of cracking down on illegals
http://www.scgovernor.com/news/releases/oct_07/oct_8_2007.htm
I’m going to look into his House record to see what he said on national issues. He was on the Intl Relations Cmte.
The problem is Bush.
I think if 2006 had been more like 2004, Granholm would’ve been toast. Her Republican opponent peaked too soon and was a victim of the rodent landslide.
Yes, the problem is Bush, who won re-election with the most votes in the history of the United States of America. The same Bush who lost the moderate state of Pennsylvania by less votes than Kerry lost Ohio. Something most Americans don’t even know about the 2004 elections because the drive by media doesn’t seem to report it.
By the way, patch789, welcome to Free Republic.
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