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 don’t like it either.
But I have to call them like I see them.
I read the letters to the editor in the local paper.
I listen o the idiots that the t.v. reporters stick a mike in their faces talk.
I listen to talk radio.
I seen the number of votes Dem. Vs. Republican
I see who the Republican National Committee, the Democrat Party, and the main stream media wanted nominated and got nominated.
In conclusion, I have to face reality and call them as I seem them.
Do I like it? No
Someone already did.
By the time the Democrats are through with the United States, The Nations in Africa will be prosperous by comparsion.
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Dom’t blame the Dims, blame our side for losing an extremely solid Republican district.
“No matter who wins March 8, Oberweis and Foster will face off again in November for a full two-year term.”
From: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-14th-district_28feb28,1,2550422.story
Now THAT’S funny!
When given the choice between a socialist and someone who merely acts like a corrupt socialist, most voters will pick the real thing. That’s the lesson the GOP failed to learn in 2006, and will probably fail to learn in 2008.
It’s not going to be a happy November for the GOP. The bad news is that a lot of good conservatives will get swept out. The better news, though, is that a conservative third party might become viable as a result.
You got that right.
From observing I have decided that the Democrats and Republicans are in cahoots with each other. Kinda like “good cop”, “bad cop”.
Hey Denny I hope you enjoyed all those steak dinners on us.
Tonight’s result is perfect example of what would happen if Mitt Romney got the GOP nod.
Jim Oberweis is a lot like Mitt Romney. Both are successful business people. Both change positions every election cycle. Both blast rival Republicans for having RINOish stands on the issues when they held the same positions a few years ago. Both Romney & Oberweis try to bully supporters of other Republican candidates into joining their sides. When Romney & Oberweis lose, they blame the RINO establishment for rigging the system against them.
“Had the Pubbies stuck to Reaganism, had they stuck to Conservatism rather than Globalism... Globalism is Socialism in a business suit. It is the Republicans who laid the seeds for this so called ‘new direction’, and it is their just desserts to be foiled by it.”
I’m starting to wonder if folks who consider themselves true conservatives understand what Reagan was about. Reagan was a major supporters of global trading. When the Democrats and their union cronies wanted tariffs to keep out the Japanese, Reagan wouldn’t allow it.
Im still hanging in...making inquiries of the Constitution party...hoping that McCain will change his tune...but like some other FReepers am making long term plans to move out....of the country.
the whiny arses on this thread must be Rats and Libs...given up and not even fighting.....
if only the bread and butter of America would get out and vote instead of complaining, Amercia can be restored...
why don't some of you whiners think of our boys in Iraq for a change?...if those young men had your attitude, they would be still sitting on the ship, on the toliet, crying like a babies....
Last month, on the way home from CPAC, I visited Baltimore and saw Mencken's home in Union Square.
Please. This is as much your country as it is theirs.
Your post reminded of something I read back when Nixon and Humphry were the Republican and Democrat nominees.
It went thusly:
Neither party wanted to win the Presidency that year for various reasons.
The Republicans nominated Nixon because they believed that he could not win anything.
The Democrats nominated Humprhey , the line of thought being if there was anyone who could come up wiyh a way to lose it was Humphrey.
I prefer:
Those who can-do
Those who can’t-teach
Those who can’t teach-join unions
Those who join unions—indoctrinate
Those who won’t be indoctrinated-vanish
Socialism 101.
Why do you think we feel the way we do? The Democrat party has made no secret of the fact that they will immediately and unconditionally surrender to Al Qaeda upon taking over in 2009. The Democrat party pees on the graves of the 4000 brave soldiers who gave their lives for our freedom. After they cut funding for the war, history will talk of how good Vietnam veterans were treated when they came home in the mid-1970s compared to how our troops will be greeted when they are pulled out in 2009.
Olberwies won’t be on the ballot come November, if common sense prevails.
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