Posted on 08/12/2010 11:21:49 AM PDT by suprise_me
Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady beating incumbent Pat Quinn by 13 points.
I think he can pull Kirk over the finish line..same thing for Meg in Cal..she might get Carly home over Boxer..
Kirk is tied, Quinn up by 13. Guess that goes to show that you have to be a pro-abortion liberal to get elected in Illinois. (/sarc)
We don’t WANT him to. Kirk MUST be defeated !
*IL Politics Ping*
Say what?
We don’t want Brady’s victory to pull that lying Socialist Combiner scum Kirk across to a win.
So you prefer Giannoulias?
But the anti-Brady conservatives show there really ARE purists out there who won't support candidates who agree with them 90% of the time. Unfortunately, those of us who oppose left-wing socialist Mark Kirk for legitimate reasons get lumped in the purist loons.
Seems there's a large segment of ignorant voters out there.
Unfortunately Randy Stufflebeam winning is less likely than monekeys flying out of my butt. But, hey you want to act the Don Quixote, more power to ya.
Indeed. And look at the track record here in Illinois: Lynn Martin, Rich Williamson, Judy Baar Topinka, Steve Sauerberg... those "moderates" are just sooooo much more electable in "blue states" than the scary conservatives.
We're dooooomed if we nominate unapologetic conservatives like Peter Fitzgerald and Bill Brady!!!!!! The ONLY way to win is to nominate a centrist pro-abortion moderate woman from the suburbs for statewide office. Why, one of them will be elected Senator or Governor any day now. After 30 years of claiming this, it's bound to happen to eventually, right?
But hey, Alan Keyes lost and he's conservative. At least there's indisputable proof conservatives can't win in Illinois. The fact he was an 11th hour replacement candidate from Maryland running against the media's designated messiah had nothing to do with his loss, obviously.
Unfortunately Mark Kirk being the key vote to stop Obama’s marxist schemes is less likely than monekeys flying out of my butt. But, hey you want to elect Jim Jeffords Jr., more power to ya. Can’t say I didn’t warn you.
You said, “Quinn up by 13.” The poll states that Brady is ahead by 13%.
I might vote for Stufflebeam, although I don’t expect him to win. If he gets at least 5% of the vote, he’ll help many Illinois conservatives, during the next four years. The Constitution Party would have the same low petition signature requirements as the republican and democrat parties. This would cause some republican elected officials to become more conservative, since they’ll want to ensure that they won’t have a Constitution Party opponent, in the general election.
The ignorance alone from certain FReepers is epic.
For the record, Alan Keyes lost by running on a platform of slavery reparations. A man I formerly greatly admired turned into a joke and a laughingstock.
For the record, Alan Keyes lost by running on a platform of slavery reparations. A man I formerly greatly admired turned into a joke and a laughingstock.
Peter Fitzgerald was an interesting case study, by the way. He ran as a solid conservative. Maverick, but very conservative. Someone whom you might today call a tea partier. On being elected, he became a waterboy for the Left. You might call him the Scott Brown of the ‘90s.
He lost badly when he came up for re-election.
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