[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Wow, didn't know this about Rauner.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I thought it was a requirement that all Illinois governors report to federal prison after their term in office?

[headstamp 2]

Good old Illinois. Where every governor has a cell waiting for them.

[goldstategop]

A RINO - just like like Charlie Baker in Massachusetts.

He’s liberal. People make a fuss about his party label.

Rauner ain’t no conservative.

[ozzymandus]

Pretty early to start yelling “RINO!”, but what the heck. Did anybody expect the guy to be a rock-ribbed conservative?

[ansel12]

If a candidate with Rauner’s history can buy political absolution with donations, after being a major donor to the Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU, then why bother with the seemingly petty exercise of living by a conservative creed?

I bet he isn't as far left as Mitt Romney was and Mitt ended up taking over the party within only 19 years from the time that he switched to republican, to the time he was being voted on as the GOP presidential candidate in 2012.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Some of us did and weren’t afraid to let it be known.

[SoFloFreeper]

rino extraordinaire, right?

[Viennacon]

he’s been a known rino for a while. Meh. Still glad Quinn got bounced.

[AbnSarge]

I suppose you’d rather the Democrat had won?

[Kickass Conservative]

Doesn’t matter. I just like thinking that a Republican, even one in name only, was Elected Governor of King Putt’s Home State.

It’s a nice snide comment to make when a Libtard starts extolling Obama’s virtues.

Besides, I live in CA, where I can only dream that any Republican would ever hold Statewide Office in my lifetime.

[PBRCat]

Bill Kelly is not a reliable source since he has an ax to grind. He is something of a political gadfly.

I do have doubts about Rauner, but given the alternative (Quinn) it was important to elect someone else.

[Chgogal]

Too bad this didn't come out BEFORE the election.

[TBP]

I didn’t figure he was a Tea Party type, but I figured he was better than Quinn.

[bakeneko]

I believe I pointed this out before.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3223330/posts

Post Number 6.

This guy is a Machine-Combine Crony from Day One. His Transition team reads like a whos-who of Machine hack-hacks.

One word: “Daley”.

Besides that everyone knows he’s Rahm’s bitch.

[trebb]

It’s Illinois - what difference, at this point, does it make on who its governor is?

[Velveeta]

Don’t believe everything you read, especially from Wlliam Kelly as source. All of this was reported last year and Kelly is disingenuous at best. Go to opensecrets.org for yourself. While you will see some donations to democrats, the vast amount of Rauner’s donations, dating back as far as the records reveal (1994 I think) went to REPUBLICAN candidates.