Former Governor of Illinois, George Ryan as he awaits his departure for prison.
Posted on 09/27/2006 9:25:26 AM PDT by DakotaRed
Received this morning in my throw away email address.
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Former Governor of Illinois, George Ryan as he awaits his departure for prison.
Somehow, I doubt this will actually happen.
you vote for Republicans, sometimes they go bad - you vote for dims, they're bad to start with...
OK, democrats. Name ONE fresh idea...I'm waiting....waiting
waiting.......
Ryan was always bad. Always. Judy Barr Topinka is bad, now and always.
This is Illinois, not Utopia. Republicans are Democrats here. You vote straight Republican, you would be fortunate if you got 10% good ones.
Cute little saying you made up though. Very clever, also very wrong. But very clever.
Send them 35 cents. It will cost them more than that to process it.
I really believe that males in the Democrat party have been feminized by the women's lib movement and don't even have the ability to act as men. That's why they hate GW so much. He looks and acts like a man. It's also why they think they can seduce the terrorist into being nice to us - and why they can't bring themselves to kill them.
Pure populist BS
I got this little jewel in my email.
I deleted it unread. Life's too short.
That is an excuse, not a reason.
Better to understand what your own values are, what you want from a person who will represent you, do the homework, and vote accordingly.
Voting straight ticket is an "out" for intellectual laziness. It is also an abdication of responsibility. If you vote (or not) for each contested office, and still end up voting for all Republicans, so be it. But saying you are willing to accept bad people in order to avoid voting for each candidate individually, is certainly not taking personal responsibility, but instead, foisting it off on "the system". That way, you vote for a criminal creep like George Ryan, and you can rationalize it by saying, the Democrats (and all other parties and independents) are generally worse, so I'll settle for creeps like him.
It's nonsense.
I have many complaints about the republicans, but believe that today's democrats are the most corrupt political party in the history of this nation.
Trying to negotiate with a terrorist is the same as trying to negotiate with a feminist.
For a second, I thought willy might've been bothered by Islamofascists, but no, it's Republicans.
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