Oberweis is a first class a$$ clown who deserved to lose. He spent $3 million to distort Lauzen’s record. Yet came begging to the NRCC to dump $1 million for him. What a fool. Oberweis needs to go back to hiring illegal immigrants for his ice cream stores.
I never understood why he got the NRCC to pour money into (losing) race anyway, thereby tieing up resources the NRCC needed to spend against vulnerable DemocRATS elsewhere like Indianapolis.
Throughout Oberweis' campaigns for Senate, Governor, and Congress, his main talking point was that he was a self-made millionaire and gave us the "advantage" of being able to self-fund his race compared to "other" Republicans that would need to be propped up with party funds to keep going after the primary.
So what happened to this "advantage" once Oberweis actually did get the nomination?
Also interesting, what happened to all the conservatives on this board who spent the 2006 primary demanding Illinois Republicans "get behind" Jim Oberweis and accused the other conservative in the race (who didn't nearly have as high negatives and baggage that Oberweis carried) of being a "Topinka plant" who was there to sabotage the great Jim Oberweis from getting the nomination so we can "beat Blagojevich"?
At the time, they spent monthes demonizing Bill Brady as a "liberal plant", (insisting a State Senator with an spot-free career conservative record was spending millions of his own money simply as an evil backroom "deal" to help Topinka)
What say the Oberweis crowd now?