Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Just what are people saying about the Oberweis loss?

Go to this link and read the comments people are making about the special election to fill the 14th Congressional District seat vacated by Denny Hastert.

Here are some of my favorite comments (quotes from the posting on Illinois Review):
  1. Kane County Republican Chairman Mike Kenyon, Kendall County Republican Chairman Keith Wheeler and DeKalb County Republican Chairman Mary Simons, as well as the other chairmen, need to get their collective asses in gear, and inspire the committeemen they represent that they will have to work the hardest they have ever worked in politics from now through November 4th to win back the 14th for Republicans, and deliver John McCain their respective counties in the fall.
  2. Finally, my good friend Denny Hastert, whom I admire, get his share of the blame for losing this seat because he resigned so early. It should not have been a burden to serve out nine months of the term he campaigned for and was elected to just 14 months ago in November of 2006.
  3. Lauzen placed principle over party. That may not make him loved by the party, but it makes him a hero to the average voter who's tired of the divisiveness that dominates politics these days.
  4. The leaders of the Illinois Republican Party are a bunch of certifiable idiots and jackasses. These guys had run the Illinois GOP in to the ground. When will the rank and file wake up and realize the house is burnt to the ground and there is nothing left.
  5. Reading these comments tells me one thing: it is everyone's fault. Look at how we are bickering back and forth between Lauzen and Oberweis, STILL!!! That election is over and we are acting like it continues. Who cares?! We need to work together as a party to ensure that the Republican's do not disappear in the onslaught of Obama/Clinton. We are nine months away from the general and already people are waving the white flag to the Dems. Stop this now! Instead of bickering back and forth, let's start working out a way to unite this party again, especially in the 14th (and 11th) where we will need the ENTIRE party to work together.

AMEN to that. Please, enough with the bickering. It's time to roll up our sleeves and figure out how to fix this awful situation and elect a Republican to Congress in the 14th District.
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