“Bruce Rauner may take the governorship of America’s worst run state.”
Wow, the bar is pretty high - so many to choose from.
Worst run state? Yeah, well he’s got some stiff competition from Jerry Moonbeam Brown here in Cali. He’s an absolute Jackwagon.
Your article is too late, Stephen Moore. The chance for Illinois to do all of that was during this year's primary election.
Now we're stuck with a liberal combiner candidate & Rahm Emanuel pal as the "Republican" nominee. He is neither "reform minded" nor conservative. Illinois is screwed regardless of who wins in November.
In fact, we went through this whole song and dance four years ago, when national conservative pundits claimed electing Mark Kirk to the U.S. Senate is "deep blue Illinois" would "embarrass Obama", "kill the lame duck session" "stop Harry Reid", and "cancel out liberal Dick Durbin's vote so Illinois has balanced representation in the Senate". Oh, and of course, "show that FISCAL conservatism works"
Has it?
Anybody know if they have reserved a jail cell for Quinn yet...After all, isn't that the requirement to be the Illinois Governor...
Four of the last seven have served time...
He’s a RINO. Couldn’t give a crap.
Illinois has had three failed governors in a row. There is no way Quinn deserves another term. Would Rauner be any better? He couldn’t be worse. If Quinn wins, it shows the utter hopeless of Illinois, not so much because of him, but because of the kind of people who would re-elect him.
Here is a add:
Quinn ... dear God, ANYBODY has got to be better.
Illinois is not a blue state. Look at the map of how Illinois voted in 2010. The whole state can’t out vote Chicago/Cook County.
Thus ensuring it'll stay that way.
Ill Democrats must be scurrying around like roaches when the light goes on.
“Illinois could become a laboratory experiment about whether conservative ideas can work in a state that has been ruled by teachers’ unions and a self-serving political machine in Springfield and Chicago”.
I don’t follow IL or WI politics closely (primarily just what I read here and there on FR). But, it seems to me if one replaced Springfield and Chicago with Madison, Wisconsin was a bit of a “laboratory experiment” that showed that conservative ideas could work thanks to Governor Walker.