Posted on 11/08/2011 5:56:10 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Buffeted by allegations of sex club forays, Republican candidate Jack Ryan on Friday dropped out of the U.S. Senate race in Illinois.
In a written statement, Ryan blamed the news media for the controversy, saying its interest in his personal life had gotten "out of control."
"It's clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could not take place if I remain in the race," Ryan said. "What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign -- the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics I refuse to play.
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Yup. Its the Chicago Way. What is it Sean Connery’s Elliot Ness says in the movie, “they bring a knife, we bring a gun to the fight. Its the Chicago Way.”
Obummer’s fingerprints are behind the calculated assault on Cain.
Ryan should have hung in there, but he had too much self-respect, unlike Democrats who have to be dragged out of elective office kicking and screaming (I’m looking at you, Anthony Weiner).
I don’t want a guy who was trying to convince his wife (and mother to his son) into having sex in public or in S&M clubs. Sorry. Jack Ryan didn’t need any help being destroyed.
Doesn’t look like it’s going to work now. Mr. Cain is a fighter and the people can see right thru whats going on.
Jack Ryan mentioned here:
Analysis of Herman Cain’s press conference on the attacks launched against him
http://hillbuzz.org/2011/11/08/analysis-of-herman-cains-press-conference-on-the-attacks-launched-against-him/
Posted on November 8, 2011 by Kevin DuJan
Check back in a bit for video of the press conference as soon as it becomes available (and include a link to it in the thread below if you don’t see it posted here).
I watched the press conference as it aired live, but will have more to say after I’ve had the chance to review it again.
Here are my initial thoughts and I invite you to add yours in the comments below.
First off, I’m struck by how presidential Herman Cain seems. I am riveted when I listen to him and I applaud his directness. In my lifetime, we’ve never had a president like this and that’s a great thing. He talks and acts like a CEO, which is who we need to run the country right now. I pictured a President Cain delivering a State of the Union Address and for the first time in many years I bet that speech would actually mean something and be worth watching. I want Herman Cain in office and I believe in him…as well as believe him.
Regarding the allegations lobbed at him, it’s clear to me the agenda-driven media decided Herman Cain was too much of a threat to Barack Obama and thus needed to be destroyed before the first voting contests in the Republican primaries.
I also think the timing of this attack on Cain was decided upon in the “JournoList” circles because Willard Mittens Romneycare needed attention taken off of him the last two weeks. Remember, today is the day that Ohioans voted on the Issues 2 and 5 ballot measures, and on October 25th Romneycare flip-flopped on his support for curtailing public sector union power (before reversing his position yet again on October 26th).
If not for the attacks on Cain this week, scrutiny would have been applied to Mittens in the lead up to this vote…instead, the public forgot all about the Ohio Union ballot measures and focused on the attacks on Herman Cain.
Don’t you think that’s too much of a coincidence to NOT be intentional?
The only thing I didn’t like about Cain’s press conference was the deference she showed Willard Mittens Romneycare. I still have this nagging suspicion that Herman Cain could be in this race to divide the anti-Romney vote, so that Mittens can squeak through to a win in the Republican nominating contest. There is a small part of me that is afraid that Herman Cain is really running to be Vice President for Mittens and that concerns me greatly.
I’ve talked to people I respect greatly who were part of the Tea Party Express and had a great deal of interaction with Cain and they have assured me that Cain is serious about his presidential run and is not aiming to be VP. But, I still don’t know, especially when Cain deliberately refuses to punch back at Mittens…on a day when Mittens took a shot at Cain. This is vexing and believe me, it’s something I am watching closely in the days to come.
I believe 100% that the Romneycare campaign was behind prompting the Politico story to drop when it did, because if Politico was left to its own devices this story would have broken in December right before the Iowa Caucus…or it would have been held in reserve for October 2012 when Cain was the Republican nominee. The only person who was really helped out by this story dropping now was Willard Mittens Romneycare. Therefore, I think it’s highly likely that his campaign had something to do with this and I also believe those same operatives did their level best to pin the attack on the Perry campaign, as a way for the Romney guys to damage two rivals at once. This is precisely the sort of move the Cocktail Party GOP establishment would make, since it’s the sort of thing they’ve done in the past.
I find it interesting that the Left, the agenda-driven media, and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment forever use sex scandals to attack black men. This is similar to what was done to Clarence Thomas, and something that keeps popping up whenever a black conservative needs to be destroyed because he is threatening the Left’s hold on black voters.
I also find it very interesting that sex scandals are the weapon of choice to destroy men that Barack Obama does not want to run against in an upcoming election.
Remember back to 2006 when Jack Ryan was on course to win the Senate seat here in Illinois. Mysteriously, his sealed divorce records were released and his campaign was destroyed by claims from his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan (from Star Trek), that Jack Ryan wanted to have exhibitionist sex with her in public and she refused. So, the whole scandal involved a Republican man who was on track to beating Obama in the election expressing a sexual fantasy to his wife that she objected to in her divorce filing. The media turned that into a major scandal for Ryan and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment in Illinois cowardly cut Ryan loose and made him withdraw from the race because of it.
I need to put the following in bold so that the importance of it registers: IF THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT HAD NOT ABANDONED JACK RYAN BECAUSE OF THAT MANUFACTURED SCANDAL, THEN BARACK OBAMA WOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT TODAY.
This is important because here we go again.
Herman Cain would do more damage to the Democrat Party as the Republican nominee than many of you realize.
In debates, he would clean Obama’s clock…and he’d convince a great many black voters to just sit home on election day, since they’d be fine with Cain winning the presidency (even if they couldn’t buck their cultural conditioning to always vote Democrat and would thus be reluctant to pull the lever for a Republican). Cain would no doubt win more black votes than any Republican in history…but more importantly, he would keep at least a million blacks coast to coast home on election day next year since they’d think “we win either way, with Obama or Cain…we’d have a black president no matter who wins, so why should we bother going all the way down there to vote?”.
This is critical because black voters (and the urban Democrat elite who like to paint themselves as being very attuned to the black community, even though they have a general NIMBY attitude towards interactions with actual black people) are such a key part of the Democrat Party’s Jenga-tower identity bloc makeup. If blacks don’t turn out in numbers greater than 2008 for Obama, he’s toast in the general election.
Herman Cain would pull black votes while simultaneously convincing other black voters to just sit home next year.
The Left can’t allow that to happen, so it wants to destroy Herman Cain.
The agenda-driven media won’t allow Barack Obama to lose because the media invested so much into his election, so it wants to destroy Herman Cain.
The Willard Mittens Romneycare campaign and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that backs him know Herman Cain would thwart their plans to install Mittens as the latest “it’s his turn” nominee, so they seek to take Herman Cain down before he wins a primary.
That last one is the most important, because you need to remember what the Cocktail Party GOP establishment decided to do to Jack Ryan in 2006.
Yes, the Left attacked Jack Ryan with a sex scandal using sealed documents that somehow the Obama campaign got ahold of.
Yes, the agenda-driven media ran with that story to destroy Jack Ryan to benefit Barack Obama.
But, it was the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that sank the Ryan campaign and demanded he withdraw from the race. In his stead, the Cocktail Party ran an “it’s his turn” candidate that didn’t connect with voters and that no one on the ground here in Illinois wanted as the nominee.
Just look at what the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is doing to Herman Cain…and think about how much the Cocktail Party wants Willard Mittens Romneycare to be the “it’s his turn” nominee to lose to Barack Obama in the next election. This is Alan Keyes all over again.
For anyone who thinks Herman Cain should just bow out because the Left, the agenda-driven media, and the Romneycare campaign have ginned up this controversy against him, I’d love you to respond in comments below and answer this question: Do you, in retrospect, think it was smart for the Cocktail Party establishment to demand Jack Ryan resign from the 2006 Senate race?
Do you also think it was a good idea to take Jack Ryan out of the race, when Obama was afraid of running against him, and giving Obama what he wanted in that race resulted in Obama’s positioning for the presidency in 2008?
Do you see how obviously and directly the Left, the agenda-driven media, and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment conspire to destroy people who are a threat to Barack Obama?
Read more http://hillbuzz.org/
Obama should be sending a nice case of single malt to Jack Ryan every Christmas, because he owes everything to Ryan’s stupidity.
I’ve never seen a supposedly respectable newspaper (The Chicago Tribune) go to so much trouble to attack a single candidate.
Ryan abruptly canceled a planned Thursday trip to Capitol Hill, where Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, expressed his disappointment in the allegations and pointedly declined to offer words of support for Ryan.
And the Illinois congressional delegation had been largely silent about Ryan, leaving him to fend for himself. One Republican, Rep. Ray LaHood, had even called for Ryan to withdraw from the race.
Blame the Chicago Tribune and the Pritzkers. They elected Obama by destroying Ryan. By what right is a private divorce settlement public fodder?
Not Guilty.
Uh, Obama’s minions went into sealed court docs and leaked the details. If it wasn’t that, it would have been something else. The Obama machine plays dirty. Real dirty. Ryan has no excuse for his behavior, but we’d be a hell of a lot better off right now if we had a Senator Ryan in his second term, and a Illinois state senator with a weird arabic name.
I want to go back in a time capsule and show Jack Ryan the future before he decided to drop out. Hopefully he would have called a press confrence and been as fired up as a US Marine after basic training to stand strong and fight for his country.
Naw, her right eye is bigger than the left one!
Were there any polls on this race? I suspect 0bama would have won in the end anyway. Probably would have had a big money edge and there was all that phony excitement about what a dazzling speaker he was, etc.
Resist we much!
LaHood? Where do I know that name? (wink)
The Trib ain’t been respectable since Col. McCormick ran it.
“I don’t want a guy who was trying to convince his wife (and mother to his son) into having sex in public or in S&M clubs. Sorry. Jack Ryan didn’t need any help being destroyed.”
Anyone man could treat Seven of Nine (I call her Eleven out of Ten) like that is obviously mentally unfit for elected office, much less anything else.
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