I remember the 2014 election for Governor pretty clearly (I also remember 2010 and 2006 pretty well, so I can safely say that Mark Kirk did NOT "work the suburbs harder" in 2010, for example).
Looking back at 2014, I distinctly remember NUMEROUS conservatives on here saying that they were backing Rauner over Rutherford because they were convinced Rutherford was a homo. The fact Rauner was 20X to the left of Rutherford didn’t stop them from supporting him. So apparently having a married Governor in office was more important than them than saving babies or preventing illegal aliens from voting for Democrats.
Well, four years later, we can be certain Bruce and his liberal Democrat wife are not gay, so I guess the Rauner backers can take comfort in that. Illinois did not get a gay Governor.
As for me, I would GLADLY have an unmarried middle aged pro-life and pro-gun man in office instead of leftist backstabbers Bruce & Diane.
On a related note, I very clearly remember Bruce Rauner being very proud and PUBLICLY gloat about his support for Planned Parenthood (Phil Collins remembers it too, and both of us remember warning conservatives and "Tea Party" people about that, given that the other three candidates in the primary -- Rutherford, Brady, and Dillard -- were all proven pro-lifers, making Rauner CLEARLY the MOST LIBERAL of the four Republicans running). Again, it did not stop numerous conservatives from pimping Rauner during that primary. I guess getting a nice donation from Bruce's bank account and being "not gay" are big priorities with some Illinois conservatives.
Those of who were paying attention in 2014 don't see that Rauner "betrayed" us on social issues. He pretty much governed exactly as his track record (a hard core social liberal who is best pals with Rahm Emanuel and married to a card-carrying proud liberal Democrat) showed he would.
If my memory is mistaken, please let me know.
Rauner’s been pretty GAY as far as I’m concerned. He’s well sodomized the state of Illinois.
Rutherford was done after the scandal, true or not (and I don’t know even if he was gay why he would try to rape some ugly dude and honestly I wouldn’t give a damn if he screwed circus animals as long as he could win, but he was done), primary votes for him were wasted, he came in a poor 4th.
Rauner’s main competition was Dillard, this was known. On paper at least pro-life and stuff but a combiner. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for him, and you could make the case Rauner was to be preferred to him.
So I voted for Brady, despite being displeased that he ran again after a poor performance (I believe he won and was robbed but it shouldn’t have been close enough to steal, he was a poor candidate).
A bushel of poor choices.
As for sodomy, Quinn is who hurt my butt. Rauner=Satan bores me, he is what he is, which is better than Quinn not to mention lard boy Prickzer.
I don’t think Rauner can win reelection with his horrible numbers. I don’t think Ives is likely win either but at worst it’s a push so she’s the clear choice to vote for.
We really needed Brady to win in 2010, winning 2014 and losing in 2018 does us no good for redistricting.
As to this article, conservative Republicans in Lipinski’s district should vote in the Republican primary to make sure Erica Harold is nominated for Attorney General, if nothing else, and look for a Republican to run for the district in 2020. For the point of view of having any chance of winning the seat in 2020 (it would be tough to win but isn’t safe), it’s better that the Progtard witch beats Lipinski and in a macro sense it’s good if moderates learn they have no place in the democrat party.