No win sitch, I can’t say I’m sad that the ****ing gangster Quinn wasn’t able to steal it AGAIN, 101 of 102 counties hate his guts.
3 possibilities
1)Rauner is like the Queen of England and Madigan is the Prime Minster, if he can hold his people (not a cinch on everything, it was hard for them to pass queer marriage, they needed RINOs) the veto pen is useless and Mike runs the state.
2)Rauner actively participates in the continued rape of the state and further hurts the GOP brand in the state, but what could happen because of that besides him losing in 2018? We lose more seats in the state leg? Which ones? This isn’t MA, rats are pretty well maxed out. No?
3)Rauner is able to use the powers of office to do a small amount of good on a few issues
One possibility if Quinn was reelected, (which he wasn’t, nothing was fixed against Quinn, Quinn is less popular than dog shite. It’s disgusting he came this close, if Rauner can still beat him after his barrage of negative advertising then there was clearly no way he could win over anyone this time) the continued violent rape of everything good and decent in Illinois. What was the upside of keeping Quinn? Keeping Rauner out doesn’t seem like reason enough to me. 4 MORE years of Quinn would have primed the state to elect a conservative next time over the objection of the combine? I don’t see it.
The PRIMARY on the other hand was fixed for Rauner, with many conservatives kissing his ring including supposed “tea party” leaders. But OTOH the unions wanted Dillard and tried to steal the primary for him by having rats vote in it, I guess the combine loves Dillard even more (though he’s ostensibly a social conservative), I know Quinn loves Dillard. I voted for Brady by default.
If anyone really thought Quinn winning was appreciably a better outcome in the long term, they should have voted FOR him rather than for the unqualified Libertarian or writing in the Constitution party guy, no? If Rauner is that pernicious it makes sense. Eh, Pete?
Say Dillard had been nominated in 2010 which he almost was, and he was elected. What would be worse today? Lisa Madigan would be Governor with a supermaj rat leg? That’s different than Quinn with supermaj rat leg?
In summary, F all of them, especially Pat Quinn. I’m not saying “yay Rauner” by any means but I’m not gonna complain that Quinn lost, I just can’t. I want to beat him with a baseball bat. Some drooling retard party thug standing outside the polling place tried to tell me to vote for him.
I don’t know how to break the combine but just letting the rats win doesn’t seem to do the trick.
I’m jealous of Maryland and Ohio. Hogan seems decent compared to Rauner and Chaz Baker. And Kasich won g**damn Cuyahoga county.
I voted for Chad Grimm, since he agrees with the republican platform more than Rauner does.
Do you think a conservative Republican will oppose Rauner in the 2018 primary? Last March, he won about 40% of the vote. If he has one conservative primary opponent, that conservative might win.
Good commentary and I concur. Illinois is a mess. There’s so much taxpayer gold spread around. I don’t see a fix.
So glad Quinn is gone. Now it’s time for Rauner to put his money where his mouth is. I pray Rauner is successful.
Pat Quinn was one of the worst scumbags there is. I relished seeing him squirm in his less-than gracious concession statement. I think Rauner should be given a chance. With some of these states, we have to recognize that the alternative would be far worse. I think if Dillard or any of the others were nominated, the labor money would have completely overwhelmed the candidates and they’d be looking at another 4 years of Quinn. The unions were absolutely opposed to Rauner and he stared them down. Despite Dillard appearing moderate on labor unions, the unions would have turned their back on him and crushed him anyway.