Posted on 03/18/2014 8:24:33 PM PDT by bigbob
Bruce Rauner declared winner of IL Gubernatorial Primary
(Graphic with vote totals at link)
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Exactly. But in IL, the GOP-E and the Democrats all operate out of the same office, AKA the Combine.
But the fact Rauner decided to completely destroy Rutherford's reputation with a manufactured Herman Cain type "scandal" seems to be pretty clear evidence to me that he ran for Governor without the combiner's approval. He posed a threat to them since he went against the "only candidates who love planned parenthood can WIN statewide in Illinois" propaganda, and they needed him out of the way.
Dillard supporters utterly despised Rauner, but there was no similar effort to "take out" Dillard from the Rauner camp. The combine takes care of their own.
The fact that Democratic PACS paid for attack ads lying about Rauner tells you who they think is the dangerous opponent.
I’m not conceding anything. I’m making an observation that IL is too liberal to elect a conservative now, otherwise a conservative would have won today.
“Sharon Brannigan celebrated a more than two-to-one margin of victory over Diane Harris as the Republican nominee to challenge Daniel Lipinski in the U.S. 3rd Congressional District.”
http://lagrange.suntimes.com/news/congress3rd-LAG-03182014:article
At least there is one race where the 2 candidates oppose amnesty. Brannigan is a true reformer according to NumbersUSA. When Lipinski voted against the Dream Act there was talk of him getting a Latino primary challenger.
http://www.wbez.org/blog/achy-obejas/dream-act-how-they-voted
“I’ll put money that Lipinski gets a Latino challenger in two years, and that he’ll have a race on his hands.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/17/gutierrez-ethics-scofield-legal-fees/6524913/
“WASHINGTON — Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill., has spent nearly $30,000 in legal fees since last summer, hiring a lawyer who specializes in ethics and congressional investigations after USA TODAY reported the congressman had kept a Chicago lobbyist working in his congressional office for years.”
The Senger race seems like an okay outcome. The Tea Party candidate Balkema is close enough to challenge her again if she votes like a RINO assuming she wins. I wonder if any of these candidates are going to be smart and go after the open borders agenda of the Dems. Foster and Durbin are big amnesty supporters working in the interests of the Mexican government. How can a RINO outpander them?
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/elections/races/congressional/Illinois
Fitz wasn’t part of the combine. He had to go so they launched a jihad against him to scare him out of the race, they succeeded. Then they didn’t like the candidate that won the primary to replace him (Jack Ryan) so they cut him loose because he got kinky with his own wife according to sealed divorce records and then replaced him with out-of-stater Alan Keyes who was sure to get crushed. Conservatives loved Keyes and so they went along. Brilliant political chess and the most disgusting event to happen in this state.
Ray LaHood led the jihad against Fitzgerald. He was rewarded with a Cabinet seat.
And unlike last time when Brady won the GOP nod they got their man in the GOP primary so they are covered in both parties. Quinn will play to Rahm’s every whim to try and win his support. Rahm made out like a bandit.
We are MUCH better off with a politically isolated and incompetent boob than a sharp dealing buddy of deadfish Emmanuel. Think about it this way. Who would you rather have in charge of the Stalag? Colonel Klink? Or Major Hochstetter?
Well, after Durbin wins his Senate race going away against Oberweis, and after yet another loss by Brady tonight, perhaps the Oberbrady will finally take the hint and stop running for the big statewide offices they can never get.
Dillard would have been slightly preferable to Rauner, if only because of social issues; but GOP turnout was terrible. Now we’ll have two Pro-Choice candidates on the ballot in November running for Governor. Wonderful.
If there is any silver lining in all of this, perhaps it will be not seeing Oberbrady on the ballot for statewide office anymore. So many losses, so many losses, so many losses. I’m so tired of both of these proven election losers.
Overall it was a pretty awful night for Conservatives in IL. We won almost nothing. We couldn’t even oust gay marriage supporters in GOP primaries. This state is so lost........
CD-3 actually voted slightly more GOP for President than several seats we are targeting (8, 10, 11, 17). Trouble is it has a nasty chunk of Chicago called Madiganistan.
Best of luck to Brannigan, she sounds like as good a challenger as we could have hoped for but probably won’t come close to winning.
If Lipinski loses to some moonbat in the primary someday that would give us a better shot.
Balkema lives outside the 11th district (works inside it) which many see as a major problem for his electablilty so Senger’s win is probably a good thing, even though Balkema is more conservative.
The 12 district is our top target, State Rep Mike Bost in a district that Obama won by an eyelash. We have a good chance in the 10th (with RINO Dold comeback bid). Bobby Schilling has a shot of taking back the 17th. Senger has a chance in the 11th. It remains to be seen if Larry K can compete in the 8th.
The last actual non-combiner conservative to serve as Chairman of the IL GOP (Gary MacDougal) was similarly used as a fall guy. They "allowed" him to be named Chairman in late 2002 so they could blame Jim Ryan's loss for Governor in November on the "divisive extreme conservative views of the chairman", and then be in a position to purge decent conservatives from any type of leadership position in the IL GOP. It worked beautifully for them and we've had only combiner scum as chairman since then. The combiner scum have had track records 10X worse than MacDougal and lost EVERY major office to the Dems, but of course, they're NEVER held accountable for that.
The problem is these guys play chess while our side plays tic-tac-toe. Worse, many idiots on our side simply deny that their side exists, and that Bruce Rauner and Mark Kirk really intend to reform things and shake up the system, blah blah blah...
There is zero justification for the Rendell support. That was in 2002 when Rendell was in close race with Republican Mike Fisher. That’s treason against the party, period.
The Rahm support just shows that he’s in bed with him like every other rich guy in the city. Most conservatives felt Chico was the lesser evil in the Mayoral race, certainly not Obama’s COS for Christ Sakes (and before that he was Clinton’s hatchet man), Rahm is making people miss Daley, which is hard to do.
I don’t know how much you know about this state, but Illinois politics goes beyond “Liberal vs. Conservative.” It’s Combiner vs. Anti-Combiner. Discerning which is which can sometimes be a challenge. Most Democrats are Combiners, as are many Republicans. Anti-Combiners pose an enormous threat to the bipartisan cabal.
In 1972, an anti-Combine Democrat was elected Governor and the Combine (in the form of Mayor Daley, Sr.) spent the next 4 years destroying him until he was run out of office. The current Governor used to be a vocal anti-Combiner up until he was Lieutenant Governor. When Blagojevich was forced out, Quinn became a Combiner.
State Sen. Pat Brady, when he was the nominee 4 years ago, was an anti-Combiner. Despite running on the same ticket with Mark Kirk, a Combiner puppet, they might as well have been running in different parties. Despite carrying virtually the same counties, the Combine made sure Kirk “won” his race while simultaneously making sure Brady “lost” his.
The Combine, their respective puppet parties and candidates, and the media count on the enormous confusion all of this creates in order to maintain a hold on power. They try to spin this as all Democrat vs. Republican when it simply isn’t. You can even find “Conservatives” just as deeply in bed with the Combiner as liberals. It can be confusing for us political experts, so just imagine how it is for laymen in Illinois.
I cringe at what my g-g-g-grandfather would think of his state today and the horrific level of corruption. His father-in-law, Seth Gard, was one of Illinois’ founding fathers and member of the original state Constitutional Convention of 1818 and a Speaker of the Territorial Assembly.
Dillard was a dull pro-union guy. The unions lined up to support Dillard in a last minute attemp to stop Rauner. He has the unions running scared.
If you move, come to Tennessee (but only if you promise to vote Conservative) :-)
“Rauner is pro-choice and vaccinates on gay marriage”
I know that as a FReeper I’m supposed to hate Dillard to the exclusion of all else, but going into the primary it was clear that Brady wouldn’t be able to catch the liberal Rauner, so if I lived in IL I would have voted for the pro-life, pro-marriage Dillard, whom I am sure would have beaten Quinn this November, just as he would have beaten him in 2010, since Dillard would have held down Quinn’s margins in Chicagoland. (It speaks to the sad state of affairs in 2010 the IL GOP that suburban Combiner Republicans would rather have Quinn than Brady in the governorship, even though Quinn’s narrow (and questionable) election resulted in a Democrat gerrymander that cements large Democrat majorities in both houses of the state legislature and packed Republicans into very few confressional districts.)
I think the tide may turn over the increasing realization that Chicago is bankrupt and that it is because of the Dems and the unions.
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