Posted on 03/08/2008 7:56:08 PM PST by The_Republican
A longtime Republican district fell to the Democrats Saturday when a wealthy businessman and scientist snatched former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's congressional seat in a closely watched special election. Democrat Bill Foster won 52 percent of the vote compared to 48 percent for Republican Jim Oberweis. With 565 of 568 precincts reporting, Foster had 51,140 votes to Oberweis' 46,270.
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Wonder what skeletons are hiding in Hastert closet?
Four years of a Marxist president and a leftist House and Senate might lead to such disasters that people will abandon the socialists. However, all the leftists have to do is give illegal aliens the “right” to vote and boost their welfare entitlements, then bring in 20 million more illiterates, give them the vote, etc. and America will be finished as a free, relatively uncorrupt, prosperous country. And once the leftists get in some more Supreme Court Justices, they will furiously work at dismantling the Bill of Rights. America will be about where Venezuela is now, with a corrupt, one-party state and a virtual dictator.
Yep. They were so scared that they wouldn't be liked by the MSM if they actually governed as conservatives. Guess what? They were never going to be liked and they ended up pissing off their base. If Bush were hard-core conservative he'd have an approval rating in the 50% range. He wanted to be "liked" by liberals. How'd that turn out? Do republicans simply not know how to exercise power? Do they think that democrats will reach out to conservatives? We're all going to get a very painful lesson in how to use power when the dems completely take over. The only silver lining is that the GOP may finally grow a pair.
It's a very long time till November. The contributions to the RNC will be a Great Sucking Sound. It will get ugly.
I’m glad you brought that up.
We can’t restore the Republic or our families if we continue to leave our children in socialist government schools.
I learned a long time ago not to send them a cent. They responded to my unsolicited donations not with simple "thank you" letters, but with mountains of junk mail demanding more money.
Two types of letters especially bothered me. First, the letters that claimed that I had joined some sort of Republican club and now owed dues, payable immediately. This was a complete fabrication, I had joined nothing and I owed them nothing. Then there were the letters that used "Department of Audit and Control" in bold letters as a return address. These looked like dunning notices from the IRS or some other official government agency. In fact they were just more demands for money, designed to look as threatening as possible. Since I hadn't responded to their other requests, they figured they would frighten me into sending more money. This seemed a very strange way for them to say thank you.
I wrote them some letters and eventually they gave up on me. They probably spent every cent I gave them on those damn mailings.
That was maybe twelve years ago. Maybe the NRC does things differently now. I hope so, but I have no intention of finding out. I learned my lesson.
Depressing but not a blowout. I didn’t even know the race was going on at this moment or I’d have given some money to help hold the seat. That is what these special election races come down to. Money and activism. We need more organization so that this kind of thing doesn’t happen. This was a highly winnable race in what has become an increasingly blue state.
McCain and the GOP had better start crafting a national strategy now while the Democrats are distracted because McCain can not run around apologizing for conservatives like he has of late. The press is playing the wedge game purposely to try to separate him from those who are key to his chances of winning. If he feels the need to distance himself from something that he doesn’t feel comfortable being associated with he should simply say that he has no comment on it and that he speaks for himself as he expects others will speak for themselves.
Didn't you forget CHANGE?
All I can tell you is that we WILL take a Senate seat away from the Dems this fall in Louisiana. The post-Katrina fallout, which led to the Republicans more than doubling their representation in the state House of Representatives coupled with the seizure of the Governor’s chair and much more last Fall, will continue. Mary Landrieu is going down.
He came off to voters as arrogant and abrasive, like dealing with them was something that was beneath him. Also, he’s changed his ideology over the past few elections. When he first ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002, he was the establishment RINO, comparing pro-life religious activists to Nazis. But he became more conservative after he realized that conservatives were an important force in Republican primaries.
What made Oberweis a poor candidate?
My wrestling coach could teach you a thing or two. Also could do damn near anything he wanted, to whomever he wanted to do it. Evidently, including your wrestling coach.
How did he screw up the paperwork? It sounds like McCain-Feingold was involved in the special election.
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