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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We’re not going to lose in November. Too much is as stake.
Will 3,000 brave soldiers in Iraq have died for nothing?
Will the shameful legacy of abortion grow stronger, denying yet another generation of unborn children their God-given right to life?
Will we will allow the nanny state to grow stronger, so that it breaks the backs of our children?
Will a woman who’s never been proud of America in her life be First Lady?
We won’t lose in November. We can’t.
This election tonight was another catastrophic public relations loss. Some Repubs think they have a chance in the Indiana special election Tuesday but I don’t see how when even this “solid” GOP district was lost tonight. What other special elections are coming up? Dems will be back up to their 240+ status from the 1970s and 80s unless the trend changes soon, and there is no sign of that.
Hard to believe you could lose something as big as Hastert’s seat.
Wow! This thread is needlessly pessimistic. Hastert’s demise, and that of his former district, does not a November make!@$&$%^#@%^#*&^ I am here to interject HOPE. I tell ya, people criticize me for interjecting HOPE; but HOPE is nothing more, nothing less, that knowing that our country is still the best place in the entire world, and that our country will do the right thing in the end. I also am jazzed that the demodogs are presently in the midst of slaughtering themselves.
So. Please don’t melt down yet. You’ll see. The country is not ready to elect America-haters, nor communists, just yet. And, once the November campaign is stated in those terms, McCain could, ironically, have some enormous coattails. OK, flame away.
Crap.
I do all I can in my district, but it’s mostly for nothing. Our GOP congressman is retiring and the state party wants a Charlie Crist-type to replace him.
Well, if he is truly a conservative, and a Constitutionalist, then we had better support him with some donations.
On the other hand, if he is just another neocon, or a Bush “compassionate” conservative, let the Weekly Standard raise money for him.
A fellow Mencken fan....I like it.
But how? How can you sell the idea of working for one's own fulfillment is "better" than getting it for "free" off the back of someone else?
So many people in this country are so used to living off of some kind of government support. How can someone who promises to take all of that away possibly win against someone who promises to give people anything and everything they want?
Where I come from, those who coached became principal. No shit.
The real crime is that Oberweis is a millionaire who could have and should have self-financed. If the NRCC had any brains whatsoever, it wouldn't have given him a dime -- candidates with plenty of money shouldn't get help from a nearly bankrupt party committee. If Oberweis didn't think the race was important enough to invest in, then the NRCC sure shouldn't have come to the opposite conclusion -- to the tune of $1 million+.
You’re exactly right.
I have two words to cheer up Freepers: Tony Renzko.
Nice to run into another one.
Read Chodorovs "Fugitive Essays" sometime if you can scrounge up a copy.
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He came in as Speaker trying to get along with the Dems. That is impossible. The GOP committed suicide by not taking the nuclear option over judicial nominees.
Obie blew $3 million in the primary. With his fat wallet and Hastert’s endorsement, Obie defeated the more electable Chris Lauzen.
Oh,McCain can win alright—if he kisses our fannies big time from now til November.
Conservatives,unlike liberals,are not monolithic but they vote in droves and win every election if properly motivated.
The RINO has almost six months to fool or convince us—the first being impossible and the latter dificult.
We will just have to wait and see.
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