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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He spent more time in Muslim Turkey than here. Lots of money in the Hastert coffers from the Turks according to Sybil Edmunds.
It depends on whether one prefers a lying conservative more than an honest liberal.
Remember my disclaimer—wait and see.
Yup. I hope he enjoys the profits from the highway offramp the Federal government just happen to put near his previously worthless farmland he had just bought.
That cheers me up, but we better hope Hillary beats him up over it, since the Republicans aren't going to. I just watched a spot on Fox where the rat spokesman dominated the conversation by beating up on McCain's age and saying all kinds of stupid stuff.
The "Republican" was mute and didn't challenge or dispute anything the rat said.
Yep
well I guess this is what Tom Foley and Tom Daschle felt.
Allow me to offer hope.
I hope the RNC loses it’s rear end IF it does not recognize and correct it’s abandonment of principle.
Then, I hope it rebuilds with a solid foundation of Goldwater/Regan.
I am tired of Democrat and Diet Democrat for choices.
But at least Oberweis makes some fine ice cream.
This is as much your country as it is theirs.
That is the point. My country and both its major parties have been taken over by those who do not respect it and who seek to subordinate it to international socialist/corporate schemes and domination and are willing to destroy Christian patriotic values (and sacrifice Christians around the world) in order to accomplish their devilish schemes.
Both parties have been corrupted. A 3rd party is the only hope I see. We will pray. If things from go bad to worse, we are gone. The magic has vanished.
I plan on fightng it through. never give up...never surrender.
Don't be fooled. Dennis was popular in the district. Ninety-nine per cent of the voters there don't know one millionth of what we know about him. But he wasn't running.
Oberweiss was a poor candidate, having lost one important race in the state already.
Why did he really lose? We're seeing portents of things to come, i.e., conservatives and mushy-middle GOPers crossing over and voting Dem because of the high cost of living in northern Illinois, the high cost of fuel in an area with lots of farms, the enormous influx of legal and illegal immigrants into the district, and discontent with the tone-deaf, out-of-gas George Bush who evinces perceived indifference to these problems of ordinary folk........and who hasn't and isn't doing one thing of any note for the party or its candidates. The sins of the father are being visited upon the sons, etc.
He shows no leadership, even now at this critical time for the party....and the Dems are pouncing merrily into the vacuum.
He should have made at least one side trip on behalf of Oberweiss, though it's a toss up if it would have made any difference in retrospect. The malaise of voters crosses party lines......and Oberweiss was not a strong enough or charismatic enough candidate to make lemonade out of a lemon.
I stated many moons ago on this board that GWB has almost effectively destroyed the GOP as a sharp, functioning party and I took a lot of heat for it. I almost started a daily prayer thread for myself. But I reiterate my position.
This is why I pray that Obama will be the Dem donkey-carrier. It's probably our only hope.
If Hillary is the nominee, Dem voters in each state will vote within Democrat party lines, and there's way more of them than there are of us.
However, an Obama candidacy will throw the party-line vote up for grabs because perhaps millions of folks of both parties will not base their vote for or against him just because he's of the Democrap Party, but for other reasons including a lack of experience to be CIC in wartime, balloning mention of financial scandals and the (whispered) fact that he's a black with a Muslim background.
A recent poll showed that approx 20% of Dems will not vote for Hussein.....and that's a pretty good chunk of the voting populace.
Obama as the nominee is the best oportunity we have in an otherwise bleak picture.
Leni
Yeah, me too.
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.
Yet he played tariffs where needed. Ask Harley Davidson.
I am all for global trade, as are most conservatives, but not at the expense of our industry, security, and sovereignty. Trade for trade's sake will fail us miserably.
Glad they're both unemployed.
Excellent post. Thanks
If you see the excitement for the liberal dems it is strong, back in 2006 a very conservative pombo lost in a very conservative district in calif and that was just the beginning. 2008 is going to be a massacre and it will make for some ammusing times(if not scary).
Pres obama or hillary no difference but coming to a theatre near you
It's certainly looking that way. The Republican party seems to be on death's door. Many years without any conservative leadership has seemingly killed the party.
re post #62 - MEGA BUMP!!
Obama will win.
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