That last comment string was getting a little ridiculously long, but we appreciate everyone's comments and input. Let's keep going on our 2010 outlook, but I wanted to take things in a little different direction.
It's become pretty apparent that the Dems are panicking.
Obama's favorables are in freefall. The topic of the day is not Obama's domestic agenda, it's national security, a traditional Republican strength. Their beloved health care plan still has a long way to go, and it's already but a shadow of what the liberals wanted. It's already under attack due to the way it was shoved through the Senate with bribes and threats, so much so that the Dems are already crying uncle. Not to mention its basic Constitutional problems.
In fact, things are so bad for the Dems, that they are not planning on campaigning on Obama's and their party's successes since taking power, but... get this... still trotting out George W. Bush and warning everyone that if you let the GOP back in, we'll have 8 more years of Bush policies. Notwithstanding that the Bush years were marked by a lot of fiscal irresponsibility (Dems and Republicans can all agree on that, it seems), some of the Bush doctrine looks pretty good right about now.
And, of course, the President's party traditionally loses some mojo at the midterm elections.
So, where does that leave us? As we have suggested before, it looks good for the GOP in general, but we can't rest on our laurels. In fact, for all the bad polling for the Dems, the flip side of the coin is that the American electorate doesn't seem much happier with the Republicans. Now they just seem disgusted with both parties.
While being labeled as the "party of no" always seemed a little unfair to me, the GOP is going to have to supply people a reason to vote for them, rather than simply say, "you wanted Dems and look what happened."
If Obama can weather the damage done to his reputation caused by his misstep on the recent Detroit terror debacle, passes some form of health care that he can claim as a victory, and get some short-term traction in the economy, the GOP advantage may evaporate in a puff of smoke. So, let's not get complacent, campers. The sprint to November starts today.
UPDATED 1/4/10 11:20 a.m.: Today, Politico continues with its coverage of this theme, suggesting in this article that the GOP will use Obama himself as a weapon in state elections. Wow, what a difference a year makes, huh?
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Dick Green, you've done nothing. You lost me.
Dont forget to listen to Robert tonight on 890 AM - he's on in 10 minutes!
Alexi's people are going to be shocked at how quickly obama abandons him. obama cares about obama and if alexi suffers before labor day, obama's people will do to him what they did to creigh deeds in virginia and basically back away from him and lay the ground work to be able to escape blame. the last thing they want is a story going into 2012 that they are in hot water in their own home state. clinton and gore lost homestate senate seats in 94 (jim cooper to fred thompson and jim guy tucker to one of the hutchison guys but that they could blame on the southern transition of the party). Obama has no such excuse in a state where a moderate republican hasn't won a senate seat since new trier wunderkind and sadly anti-israel pol chuck percy beat up alex seith in 1978.
I am not ready to write the democrat party off here for several reasons.
1. Obamas numbers going down are largely the result of his nuts getting upset he isnt getting crazy enough for them and the conservative republicans who stopped loving the party, telling the president we don't like you. these are evangelicals from ohio that were pissed at the party for larry craig and spending. when obama gets into the 30's in approval that will be a good sign for us because it will mean that the upper middle class/high educated base of his coalition (think wilmette) is leaving him.
the best thing for the party this year is the former mr. kimberly vertolli. our gubernatorial nominee is dead on arrival. if tim russert were here he would say kirk kirk kirk is the key, if mark blows this thing open(and I have every expectation that blago will take as much of the state democrat party with him as possible), he will be the party face and considering the love he gets from voters here, those that aren't insane, that's a good thing for us. I think we'll see something we haven't seen in a long long time up here which is the pontential for some upsets and folks like a schoenberg, or karen may or whoever else get swept out.
btw, kimberly would have been a dynamite replacement for mark.
FOKLAEAS
i have to have dinner-an elephant needs his food. if someone wants to record roeser wls780am.com and post it to team america's site I will be happy.
foklaeas
Can everyone please leave Kimberly Vertolli out of future discussions. Simply put, she is a strong supporter of her former husband, deserves privacy that all people crave unless THEY choose public office and then they're wide open to comments and critique. She is not running for any office, she is just asking to treat her former husband with respect and truth. It's a new year and I hope that everyone who posts on this blog and every blog does so with decent, honest, respectful comments.
TA,
That comment of yours is one of the funniest ever:
"it's national security, a traditional Republican strength. "
LOL, lol. Do you still believe that? You can not be serious...Are you? Have n't you learned anything from the disastrous Iraq war?
Many (not all) republicans are chicken hawks and you know it. Two classic examples are Bush and Cheney. But that's the least of their problem. Their biggest problem is incompetence.
I am unhappy with Obama because I think he should have simply pulled out of Afghanistan instead of escalating. But I dont complain much, because if his semi-demented opponent in the 2008 election had won, there would be probably already another massive new war with Iran.
National security is not to randomly start disastrous wars for the country. It is to know how to safely avoid them. At least we now have a rational administration.
kimberly is the best. that said, this is a national campaign, where everything is under the microscope. Team kirk, is trying to establish message discpline and before she posts on this blog or anything else it needs to be vetted by their press team. Shes not married to mark but she reflects on him.
This is a major problem. If tomorrow mark has a big press ocnference but instead, someone like rich miller or politico picks up her blog post-they read team america, it will be the story that gets covered, rather than say mark's press conference which hurts his campaign.
this extends to her facebook page, and any other social networking sites or blog posts she posts to-if she or any of his other family members have pictures or other things they write online, assclowns like catlady or dailykos will post them and they will be used against mark. Bob corker almost lost his senate seat in tennessee because there were pictures of his daughter drunk on facebook which didn't play well in rural evangelical chattanooga. I say this as a fan. Previous campaigns have had nasty episodes where family members decided to vent and it got in the way of things. As well there's nothing the media likes more than a story involving an exwife. it's more interesting to them than his suburban strategy or tthud grants.
FOKLAEAS
Blue, my friend, the fact is that you are one of these people who is so morally opposed to the Iraq war that you simply can't see past it. In case you hadn't looked up from your copy of the NYT or watched something other than MSNBC, I have a news flash for you. WE WON. We left Iraq a lot safer than we found it. And it was your Dem senators who all swore that we'd already lost. Well, lookie lookie how that turned out.
So, of course you would want to cut and run from Afghanistan. But to give Obama a smidgen of credit, he had discovered that when you actually are in charge, you need to deal with the realities of how the world is, and not simply 'believe' the world should be a certain way, act accordingly.
As Ferris Bueler famously said, "No one respects someone who kisses your ass."
So, yes, I am fairly confident that the GOP still has the edge when it comes to the trust of the nation on national security. Read the article at Politico, Democrats' worst nightmare: Terrorism on their watch.
FOKLAEAS, you're beginning to sound about as consistent in your comments here as our friend shore does on CapFax.
Sorry. 8:46 was obviously from Anonymous?
Anonymous?, a little constructive advice- why don't you just set up a Google account so you are automatically identified? This has got to be the 10th time you've forgotten to sign your comment and it's starting to look a little silly, my friend.
Thanks, TA. I'll just post anonymously then as most others seem to do here.
Up to you, my friend. Just trying to save you a little embarrassment.
FOKLAEAS bashing, a sport of some on here is not relevant. Kimberly is part of Kirk for Senate, and she reflects on him. the blog post was a nice gesture, but out of line and wrong. tomorrow there will likely be a headline on politico-google alerts pick things up now, or a dscc hit on kirk, raising the record of his military service and also drawing attention to her and the divorce. no one would have picked up a story on some comment here. he needs a tightly scripted campaign from here on out, the last thing he needs are stories about his divorce or questions about his military service. ask john kerry and jack ryan how those events play out.
we are better on the war on terror. people dont trust us on fiscal responsibility anymore-thanks wingnuts or family values (hey mark foley) but they trust us to win wars.
FOKLAEAS
TA,
We won in Iraq? What did we win? All I know is that nearly 5,000 US soldiers died in a war based on deliberate lies and hundreds of thousands (probably close to a million) of Iraqi civilians died for no good reason either. Not to mention that we are still there.
And you call that victory? Are you serious? The Iraq war was a totally immoral and unjustified war and we did not win. It is still going on, but we have already lost in many ways. That war is probably the biggest foreign policy mistake in US history. Worse than Vietnam.
Blue, you're right, if you don't consider removing a dangerous dictator that would have done anything he could to harm the U.S. and was slaughtering his own people, and thereby establishing a democracy and promoting stability in the region, a good cause, then I can't argue with you.
I certainly can't argue rationally with you when you just make up facts. Where do you get your figure for Iraqi deaths? Ellen's Blog? LOL.
Ask the majority of the servicemen and women who served in Iraq if they felt the cause was worthwhile and then come back here to chat, but you're not allowed to pontificate without some backup. And please don't simply quote that moron who used to follow Mark Kirk around with a camera because he was being paid to do it.
Thanks TA for stating what needs to be said until those who spout such moronic statements about what we did and/or didn't accomplish in Iraq get the facts right. The brave men and women, some from this district, tell a far different story than what Blue Wind and some others who post here of late try to spout. Until this administration admits what's really at stake, Islamist terrorism that's running rampant, we are playing a deadly and frightening game with the future of America. That we release these Islamic terrorists whose goal is to destroy our country and all of us who live here to return to Yemen, and other terrorist producing countries, we are sitting ducks. Notice that the healthcare discussion has amazingly left the front page of every newspaper and TV program. Americans have a right to question our national security sadly in the hands of people like Eric Holder. If that doesn't keep you up at night, nothing will. Is this the change we all were promised?
Blue,
there's a reason why stalingrad, berlin, poland, vietnam, havanna, bogota, panama, bosnia and other 20th century era capitals and issues aren't at the center of the debate in america anymore and that's because the country moves on to more pressing matters. iran matters, afghanistan matters, terrorism matters, china matters, yemen matters, those are the concerns. we have a plan in iraq to leave, a great centom chief and a great nea chief to bring it to a close.
move on.
foklaeas
TA,
No I dont consider removing Hussein victory for dozens of reasons. For starters, he was not the only dictator in the world. Let me give a hint that I am sure you know. The Saudi regime was in my opinion worse and the 911 hijackers were Saudi.
In any case, Iraq had nothing to do with the terrorists that attacked us and I am sure you have realized that by now. The numbers are clearly in the hundreds of thousands no matter what source you use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
As for the "moron who used to follow Mark Kirk around with a camera" I never heard of that incident. I am certainly not quoting someone I dont know.
Is Blue Wind a Saddam supporter? Is Blue really serious that Saddam was not a destabilizing factor in the Middle East? That he was just some ordinary run-of-the-mill dictator?
I would suggest Blue Wind clarify those comments a.s.a.p. But then again, there are a whole bunch of Democrats who chatter away like that all the time these days.
Louis G. Atsaves
Ten Reasons to vote for Dold:
10: He has the grassroots support of townships like Elk Grove & New Trier
9: He is not endorsed by business as usual Republicans like Gov. Edgar.
8: He is not endorsed by SEIU/Acorn
7: He is a fresh face
6: He understands the issues the best.
5: He understands that we cannot give driver licenses to illegal immigrants.
4: He doesnt have machine democrats running his campaign.
3: He can beat Hamis or Seals in the General election
2: He is the only true pro life conservative in the race.
1: He is a small business owner and eagle scout and understands how everything works.
Anon 7:24 (Atsaves),
Is that the best you can do when you disagree? Calling others names and Saddam supporters? Your comment was beyond ridiculous and offensive.
Although Saddam was a terrible dictator, the Iraq war did not stabilize the middle east. It destabilized it further. If you are not aware of this, what can I say? Try to read newspapers and follow the news. Educate yourself. The Iraq war has done nothing to make us safer and it was a total waist of resources and resulted in unnecessary loss of human life.
SOME clarifications:
10: He has the grassroots support of townships like Elk Grove & New Trier
HE ALSO GOT THE ENDORSEMENT OF VERNON, AND HE IS THE DE FACTO WINNER OF WHEELING SINCE HE SPLIT THE VOTE WITH CADIGAN AND CADIGAN DROPPED OUT.
9: He is not endorsed by business as usual Republicans like Gov. Edgar.
BUT HE HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS AND MANUFACTURERS
8: He is not endorsed by SEIU/Acorn
NO, THAT WOULD BE BETH COULSON. BETH WILL IMPORT SEIU VOLUNTEERS TO THE 10th TO KNOCK ON REPUBLICANS' DOORS. NICE, RIGHT?
7: He is a fresh face
6: He understands the issues the best.
5: He understands that we cannot give driver licenses to illegal immigrants.
4: He doesnt have machine democrats running his campaign.
THAT IS BETH COULSON. HER CAMPAIGN MANAGER IS A UNABASHED DEMOCRAT.
3: He can beat Hamis or Seals in the General election
ITS SPELLED HAMOS
2: He is the only true pro life conservative in the race.
DOLD'S, GREEN AND FRIEDMAN'S POSITIONS ON ABORTION ARE THE SAME, NO FEDERAL FUNDING, NO PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION, PARENTAL NOTIFICATION. NONE OF THEM WOULD VOTE TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE. COULSON AND HAMMOND ARE 110 PERCENT PRO CHOICE
Correction*
Friedman and Green are opposed to late term abortions, whereas Dold is not.
Hey, "Correction: 9:34."
Dold IS against late term abortions.
a) you either don't know what you're talking about.
b) you're a hacky shill for some other campaign trying to distort his record.
Either way, check your facts.
Fielding Mellish
Blue Wind,
Please answer these simple questions:
Do you believe in Democracy?
Do you believe women have the right to vote?
Do you believe women should be able to drive cars?
Do you believe women are equal to men?
Do you believe in free press?
I am not going to go into the reasons for why the Bush administration started the war. Let’s just for a moment say you are right and it was a corrupt reason to support the industrial war complex. If you answered yes to the questions above, and I am sure you did, then the war was just. If you answered no then I am not sure anyone can help you or have a rational conversation with you.
Ten Reasons Not to vote for Dold:
10: He has the grassroots support of townships like Elk Grove & New Trier
In other words, 10 people voted for him in a meeting no one really cares about. He has no real endorsements from people who know what it is like to work in government.
9: He is not endorsed by business as usual Republicans like Gov. Edgar.
Last I checked, Edgar was the last governor not to go to jail and to have a large favorability rating when he left. Who would want that? I guess when you have nothing to fall back on when it comes to support, you're left to trashing the major endorsements of other campaigns.
8: He is not endorsed by SEIU/Acorn
Last I checked, no one has been endorsed by SEIU in this cycle. But, again, why would we want to focus on facts? They get in the way.
7: He is a fresh face
So you are saying he has no idea what he would be doing if he were elected to Congress? Which means he would be nothing more than a soft voice in a harsh crowd.
6: He understands the issues the best.
He was taken to the woodshed on his lack of abortion stance by the Chicago Tribune! How can anyone say he know the issues best when he can't clearly answer the easiest issue question there is?
5: He understands that we cannot give driver licenses to illegal immigrants.
Last I checked, no one has proposed that. I was told by a Dold supporter that this happened, but I can't find the House Bill that shows that.
4: He doesnt have machine democrats running his campaign.
No, but it is clear he has incompetence running his campaign.
3: He can beat Hamis or Seals in the General election
It is Hamos, but I doubt he would be able to beat either of those. Hamos would have experience to use against him - even if it is bad experience - and Seals will have the name ID to trounce Dold. All Dold has is his parent's pest-control business and working for Dan Quayle to help him.
2: He is the only true pro life conservative in the race.
This is the biggest lie I have heard! Dold told the Tribune that if he would have to be labeled as something, it would be pro-choice. He even said Roe vs. Wade shouldn't be overturned. He's playing both sides with this issue, which really reflects poorly on his claim to run a campaign with integrity and honesty.
1: He is a small business owner and eagle scout and understands how everything works.
He isn't a small business owner. He works at a small business his parents own. Congrats on the Eagle, though. That's not easy to get.
If you want to tell people why they should vote for your guy, use facts - not distortions.
Wow, looks like Beth Coulson's Democrats Party campaign manager did a little posting this morning. It must be so hard to run from Beth Coulsn's record, Jen, since you probably agree with all those health care mandates that Beth imposes upon the people of Illinois. Are you importing SEIU goons from CICERO to walk precincts for you this weekend again?
"BUT HE HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS AND MANUFACTURERS" What are you implying with this claim? He taped a speech for YouTube at a friend's business. C'mon.
"He is not endorsed by business as usual Republicans..."
You wouldn't want Edgar / Porter / Kirk endorsement? State it here...
You guys can do better.
For the poster who was asking blue wind about those various rights that should be held by women, were you referring to Kuwait? Because women don't have those rights there.
B.W.'s point was that we didn't win in Iraq merely because Saddam is gone. Why? Because the U.S. should never be in the business of invading countries with a belligerent but basically impotent leader. But don't take my word for it. Talk to Mark Kirk. Since he was a part of Desert Shield he had first-hand knowledge that it was working. No, the cost of the Iraq war II was too many of America's finest sent against the wrong enemy at the wrong time in the wrong way. No military analyst refers to the invasion of Iraq as a victory, because regime change alone is not a military goal, it's a political goal. We could have, and should have done better to achieve that political end and Kirk should admit that if he wishes to be a member of the Senate. As it stands, his 'inside knowledge' of weapons of mass destruction possessed by Iraq will be Kirk's own, personal, weapon of political self-destruction.
1. the state gop sucks, thanks to them we are on our way to taxachussettess gop territory. there's a reason this is the hardest seat the gop has to hold this year and it is because of coulson and her bumpkins that make clowns like roland burris senators, lose seats like crain's and that can't figure out how to beat a wounded democrat party. edgar was 15 years ago. move on. the party establishment needs to be blown up and demolished. the more coulson is with that, the less we should be with her.
a)government experience means nothing. government in illinois has failed repeatedly. This is like being a skipper on the titanic or a captain with the bay of pigs invasion or a political operative on the alan keyes campaign, yes its experience, no its not good experience.
2. Dold is a tool for trying to play it both ends on abortion. You read this blog and his people will tell you he is jerry falwell, you see the guy at the tribune thing and he's running planned parenthood and ready to join arm and army with barry obama in the pro-choice movement.
3. his parents own the business.
4. holidays are over. dold needs to call his new bff jeff berkowitz ask for all shows that coulson has done of his and turn them into a killer youtube video showing what kind of republican she actually is (the kind that is democrat) and where she was on people like blago, and kirk and bush and all the rest of the issues so that when this bs edgar endorsement comes out from a guy who was elected when tikkun's parents were in grade school, he can say not so fast.
5. i'm skeptical about dold and green in a general-largely because their campaigns are run by southern right wingers with messages that haven't worked here in 15 years. arie friedman if he could grow up I think would be the best shot.
FOKLAEAS
Anon 12:20pm:
Women do indeed have these rights in Iraq. I have included a link to a story for verification. No doubt with the war and the rise of extremists in Iraq some of these rights and women are targets and feel there has been a step backwards. This is because of extremism in Iraq not the U.S. The overall point I am making is that there has been a positive outcome of this war. It is easy to sit here in America and say we shouldn’t be the policeman of the world. We could never understand what takes place in the rest of the world. Someone has to step up.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/31/iraq.women/
FOKLAEAS
I don't think Arie can grow up. He either has not raised the $5,000 minimum required to file with the FEC or his campaign is breaking the law. Either way, it's bad news for them.
Wrong. Friedman's campaign is registered with the FEC.
Yep, I just looked him up:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/H0IL10336/
People must be getting worried to lie so badly. Took me like 12 seconds to find Friedman on the FEC site.
Dold's support of the TARP bailouts makes him nonviable. Despite the spin his team keeps putting out he is for all intents done.
And he gave Obama a "C" last night on Roeser's show.
Gerald Ford was a "C" president in my book. Obama is more of an "F" by any conservative standards.
FOKLAES,
The only difference between Beth Coulson and Mark Kirk is their undergarments. Philosophically, they are in lock step (with the exception of cap & trade that Beth DOES NOT support) on all the main issues.
But most importantly, they are in lock step when it comes to integrity, independent leadership and tenacity.
I have heard Beth speak at 4 events over the last 3 months and she never made a disparaging comment about an opponent. The attacks launched at her on this blog indicate she must be the front runner, but most importantly she and her team lead in the category of class.
Nope, I just heard her at the RJC debate tell everyone that the lights in the ballroom should be turned down to save energy.
I know someone has written this before, but I can't resist:
"I know Mark Kirk. Mark Kirk is a friend of mine. Elizabeth Coulson, you are no Mark Kirk."
At least Kirk has charisma.
If Elizabeth gets the nomination it will be the Peter Principle at work - bigtime.
she was endorsed by blago, a fact which I have mentioned on this blog more times than dold has in his 6 months on the trail. From the looks of it his campaign has spent its money and energy on making sure his teeth are white and his hair is cut. oh and memorizing 1980 talking points.
i haven't been over to coulson hq, but one has to wonder what its like to work on a campaign run by the enemy. How many dead people have they registered to vote? How many chicago thugs will they be bringing up to scare conservatives away from the polls?
energy? spare me. she hasn't done a thing to make this area more red.
unless I get a case against arie friedman, I am going to vote that way. the doctor might not have a professional goon squad but john mcgovern is just a phone call away and I think he might have a prescription for what ails america.plus he can sing sweet music to my ears by going michael vick on the pup on things like israel, and small biz.
FOKLAEAS
Gold Fish,
Your posts show ignorance of the facts. You appear to confuse Hussein and the Taliban. Hussein was a horrible and criminal dictator, but he was not a religious fundamentalist. He was a secular dictator. There has been no change regarding the rights of women in Iraq. They can vote now as men can, but under Hussein no one could vote, men and women. Where there has been some (I emphasize some) improvement is in Afghanistan. The Taliban regime was horrendous on women's rights, while the current one is slightly better.
Regarding Iraq, there has been no positive outcome at all. Of course and it was nice watching a terrible dictator like Hussein collapse. But that alone was anything but enough to justify that war. The Iraq war had only negative outcomes:
1. It destabilized more than before the middle east.
2. It resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
3. It damaged the image of the US to our allies all over the world.
5. We are still stuck there and it is not clear if we will ever get out.
6. It costed billions and billions of taxpayer's money.
All that for the lies of Bush and Cheney and they semi-insane neoconservative plans.
Face reality. The vast majority of the country considers the Iraq war a huge error with no positive outcome. The only ones who still defend that insane war are a few republicans who were invested into it. That war was wrong.
blue wind,
please keep talking like a reinvented hippie because america is really sick of your neo-hippie trash talk. We invaded iraq because sadaam hussein had 18 chances and we were kind of tired of being spat on. we got rid of him, our troops did their job, people listened to lee goodman for 2 minutes, ran far away from him and america moved on.
closer to home your party treats national security with the seriousness which I gave my last visit to the bathroom-actually I gave it more because I didn't wait 3 days to do something, the economy is a mess, our current democrat governor is making the last one look sane and he might get out of jail by pleading insanity. you and the rest of your socialists or freedom fighters or whatever you call yourselves at the aaron hussein (how original,dude) freeman israel hate fests you have at northbrook library for 2 people at 830 on saturday night never talk about why 98 percent of black kids in the city can't read, why our taxes are high, why every government agency is broke-perhaps to pay for karen may's botox shots, and why half the illinois democrat party is in jail and the other half draws a government paycheck.
New name given tehran-hamos's impending defeat(Fan of King Louis Astaves the Ellen Alexi and Pup Slayer)
FOKLAEAPS
Blue Wind:
There really are three areas we are talking about in regard to women’s rights not only in Iraq but the immediate region. We both certainly can agree the Taliban was and continues to be the extreme end of the spectrum. In the case of Hussein, he was a mix. The constitution of Iraq guaranteed equality among the sexes but basically allowed exceptions because of Islamic law that permeated national law. The Iraq of today is a much better place for women in the context of legal rights in that the law now allows equality and protection. Yes there are problems in application. You have to start somewhere. The issues of application are really very similar in theory to the problems America had incorporating minorities and women into the voting booth. Extremists will always try to stop what they hate. The difference under Sadam was that it was State sponsored under the guise of Islamic law.
We will never agree whether the end product of the war was good or bad so I really will not bother. I believe democracy will take hold and the region will be better off. I also believe the world is closer to war with Iran than at any point under Bush. This is not because of Bush policies. Obama opened up his arms and said let’s talk. The extremists said no.
35 is a magical number.
FOKLAES,
Here is what is happening over at Coulson HQ, they are manufacturing absentee ballots and calling all their thugs in from Cicero to steal votes.
Proft has been Beth's consultant for years and....
The son of the former Berwyn mayor is doing Beth's bidding.
http://www.berwynivb.com/pdfs/SunTimesArticles2005.pdf
Read it and you will see why I am so angry. My vote is for Dold, he is the only one who can win.
I'm getting a bit bored with various supporters saying "xxxx is the only one who can win," and then not supporting it.
So tell me, Mr. Dold, what is your path to victory in the general election? Do you appeal to the Pro-Life community? Do you go after women? Do you try appealing to Jews with your heart-felt pro-Israel positions? Do you out charisma Seals?
How do any of the candidates keep Seals from snagging the additional 3% of the vote he needs to win a general election.
Make an argument and maybe you'll win my vote.
Unbelievable,
For someone who's innocent you sure know a lot about the guilty ones...
Coulson Supporter
There's a lot of that going around nowadays.
I tried posting the following as an FYI on "Part I", TA, but it didn't go through. I'm assuming that it's because you've closed comments on that one; therefore I'll try again.
A copy of what I posted this AM on CapFax as an FYI:
"Thanks, AA. That’s very kind of you.
As I told Rich yesterday in an email, I’ve decided to retire not only my handle, but from posting on blogs and “Illinois politics” overall. Things have just become a bit too crass in my opinion, and I just don’t have the tolerance for it.
It’s been an honor and a pleasure working with you and the others I’ve known here and on the other blogs I’ve enjoyed over the years. Illinois is definitely better off thanks to all of you.
All my best,
LostGeneration (Illinois Leader)
Anonymous (CapFax)
? (Illinois Review)
Anonymous? (Team America)"
Anonymous?
(See, I even managed to remember to post my handle this time? Good luck to you and your blog, TA.)
the fight between dold the dolt and blago/coulson will come down to whether dold can paint coulson as a blago RINO and whether coulson can use her establishment support to solidify her standing.
the tribune endorsement will be big, the other endorsements will likely go to coulson. things to watch for are whether dold can produce a poll showing him leading, whether his attacks resonate, and what sort of pushback we see against her. dold has to fight with friedman and green for the angry white dad vote, we'll see, and friedman has the vet thing going for him which will hurt dold's ability to win defense conservatives.
time is ticking.
FOKLAEPS
Dold supports TARP. That is game over for any candidate in a Republican primary. Also, Ive heard he doesnt own his own home - his parents do. Is this true? Could be a rumor, but I looked it up and he doesnt pay the property taxes at his property. Hmmm...
Dold does not pay his property taxes at or own his home? All I can say is WOW. That is much worse than Dan Seals living slightly outside of the district.
Yawn.
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