I'm honestly beginning to think this Erick Erickson guy is living up to the name of his website. I never heard of him before he founded "RedState", but every candidate I've seen him push either turns to be a RINO who ends up siding with the Dems on a major policy, or turns out to be a lousy "Tea Party" who screws up a general election and hands the victory to the Dems. Illinois has been more of a "red" state than ever since we took Erickson's advice and elected Mark Kirk to "represent" us.
erickson is a fox news contributor and a radio talk show host thru out the deep south.
I give Ericson’s endorsements as much weight as I give Mark Levin’s. (less than none)
I fear that Buck based on name recognition will be tough to beat in the primary.
Hinklepooper would prob beat Tancredo, I think Scott Gessler or one of the other candidates could beat him though.