102 Comments - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:06 am: If you tell a pollster that Gov. Blagojevich is doing an “excellent” job, then you might be a hardcore partisan. - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:07 am: If you tell a pollster that Gov. Blagojevich is doing a “good” job, then you might be a hardcore partisan. - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:07 am: If you tell a pollster that Gov. Blagojevich is doing a “fair” job, then you might be a hardcore partisan. lol - A Citizen - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:10 am: If your posting name is “Bill” then you might be a hardcore partisan. - Ben - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:10 am: If you have a Obama song ringtone on your cellphone….. - Some Guy - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:11 am: If you think Jim Oberweis would make a fine Congreeman, then you might be a hardcore partisan. If you refuse to spend money on Oberweis ice cream, then you might be a hardcore partisan. - Pat Collins - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:11 am: If you actually read candidate’s election year books then you might be a hardcore partisan. - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:12 am: If you asked why Mayor Daley hangs out with Fred Barbara. - LEFTY - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:13 am: If you think Fox news is fair and balanced, then you may be a hardcore partisan. - Gadfly - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:13 am: If you believe Sarah Palin is actually qualified to be President of the United States, you might be a partisan. Ok, that was a gimme… - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:14 am: If you don’t think Anne Burke got to the Illinois Supreme Court on her merits. - Wumpus - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:15 am: If at a wedding, everyone sits in the middle opposed to the Bride side/groom side, you might be a redneck. oops If you think Obama has enough experience, but Palin does not…. If you think Palin has enough experience, but Obama does not…. - the Other Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:19 am: If you think this question has a liberal media bias, then you might be a hardcore partisan. - 10th Indy - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:20 am: If you have more yard-signs than grass in front of your house…. - The 'Broken Heart' of Rogers Park - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:21 am: If you’re able to be a public spokesperson for Gov. Blagojevich, then you might be a well-paid hardcore partisan. - The Doc - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:22 am: If you think that the sales tax rates in Chicago and Cook County are reasonable, you might be a hardcore partisan. - Bluefish - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:23 am: If you allow goldfish in Lake County to vote then you are a hardcore partisan. - Gadfly - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:24 am: If you think BO is a product of the Chicago Machine, you might be John Kass…oops, a hardcore partisan - Scooby - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:24 am: If you have a shirt that says “it’s gonna happen” … - Across the Board - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:25 am: Steve @11:12 ===If you asked why Mayor Daley hangs out with Fred Barbara.==== Actually, this one should end “then you should put money down on Fred Barbara’s horse, CS Silk, that is running in the Breeders Cup at Santa Anita this weekend. - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:28 am: If you put gigantic, obnoxious “Obama ‘08″ stickers on a vintage 1963 Cadillac convertible… Oops. Sorry, dad. lol - Deeda - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:29 am: If you don’t mind the high taxes in Cook County…… If dead people vote in this election than….. - ZC - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:29 am: If your response to the past six years has been, “Run again, Oberweis! Run, run, run!” you might be a hardcore partisan - from either party. - Six Degrees of Separation - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:30 am: If you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Al Franken, you might be a partisan…and you might have questionable taste in “entertainment”. - Dan S. a Voter and Cubs Fan - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:33 am: If you drink BO flavored kool-aide….. - Down South - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:33 am: If you have a bumper sticker that says “Don’t blame me I voted for Ryan”… - Greg - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:36 am: If you think that economic growth depends on your candidate/party’s success, then you might be a hardcore partisan. - bored now - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:39 am: if you know what “GOTV” means, then you might be a hardcore partisan. i happen to like pat collins’ answer… - righty - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:40 am: If you think the main stream media is fair and balanced, then you may be a hardcore partisan. - Carl Nyberg - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:48 am: If you believe things that are demonstrably false (objectively untrue) because the real world facts contradict your ideology then you are a hard core partisan. - What planet is he from again? - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:52 am: If you refuse to root for the Cubs or the Sox because they’re the “other” team, then you might be a hard core partisan. - Beerman - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:54 am: If you think Jesus is telling you how to vote… If you still think Obama is Muslim, was Muslim and/or was related to Saddam Hussein…. - Anon today - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:56 am: If you ever got a divorce because you didn’t vote the right way, you might be a hardcore partisan. Or don’t allow your children to socialize with others of a different party or viewpoint. - Deeda - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:57 am: If you pay $2,000 a person to get upfront seats to see Obama in Grant Park on election night. - Anon - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:04 pm: ===If your response to the past six years has been, “Run again, Oberweis! Run, run, run!” you might be a hardcore partisan - from either party.==== Same is true for wearing a “Blago in ‘10″ button. If you vote to raise my taxes or lower my benefits, you are a hardcore partisan. - Skeptic Cal - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:11 pm: If the FBI interviewed you and said you are a “subject” of the investigation, you may be a hardcore partisan. - Bill - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:12 pm: A, Whaddaya mean, “might be”? - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:13 pm: Yeah. No “might” about it. lol - OneMan - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:14 pm: if you don’t completely agree with me, you might be a hardcore partisan (or my wife) - Little Egypt - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:14 pm: If you think Gary Forby is a great example of Southern Illinois educational excellence……… If you really believe ANY candidate can make a change and you vote for them on that premise….. If you believe that George Ryan could have won another term as governor…………. - wordslinger - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:17 pm: If you still have an “Impeach Bush” bumper sticker on your car…. If you still have an “Impeach Clinton” bumper sticker on your car… If you still have an “Impeach Andrew Johnson” bumper sticker on your car… If you find Sean Hannity intellectually stimulating…. If you find Keith Olbermann intellectually stimulating…. If you find Sarah Palin, um, stimulating… If you believe Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened… If you believe FDR knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened… If you believe Blago when his lips move… If you think Palin is intellectually fit to be president…. If you think Biden is temperamentally fit to be president… If you think Cheney is physically fit to be president… - Vote Quimby! - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:18 pm: a) …change your driving habits so not to offend anyone who sees your bumper stickers… b) …have walked a precinct for someone you don’t really know… c) …think a Con-Con is the greatest threat to Illinois since the Cutback amendment… d) …have a resume with mysterious ‘leaves of abscence’ holes in it… e) …listen to any political talk on satellite radio… f) …arrange your Christmas card display so elected officials are visible to your guests… g) …have yard signs for a safe incumbent (i.e. Durbin)… h) …read the Capitol Fax blog… - Little Egypt - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:22 pm: If you believe the Illinois Republican party, come 2010, has a ghost of a chance of regaining any of the constitutional offices…….. - HoBoSkillet - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:23 pm: If you keep several windows up on your computer screen following daily tracking polls all the time bringing your computer to the brink of a fatal blue screen error… you might be a hardcore partisan… - Little Egypt - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:24 pm: Vote Quimby, I have done “f”, so I guess that makes me………… - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:25 pm: If you read Illinoize purely for the GOPUSA updates… If you think ArchPundit has lost his edge… …then you might very well be a hardcore partisan. - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:28 pm: If you are absolutely certain that BHO will immediately pardon RRB, you might be a hardcore partisan. But if you believe BHO will appoint RRB to a cabinet position… You’re insane. - montrose - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:32 pm: If you believe Beth Coulson is a right winger that needs to be voted out of office, you might be a hardcore partisan. If you think “Jr.” at the end of a person’s name makes them qualified for public office, you might be a hardcore partisan. If you will only visit the pro-America parts of the country, you might be a hardcore partisan. - Paul, Just This Guy, You Know? - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:38 pm: If you believe Barack Obama is actually qualified to be President of the United States, you might be a hardcore partisan. - wordslinger - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:39 pm: Montrose, what and where are the “pro-America” parts of the country? If you’re suggesting there are anti-America parts of the country, you might be a hardcore partisan. - anon24 - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:39 pm: you didn’t say political partisan, soooooo…..I met a guy recently who told me, seriously, that if Michael Jordan had ever gotten any calls the Bulls would’ve won more than six rings. He was SERIOUS! - Deleted Daily - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:43 pm: …believe Obama will pardon Tony Resko… …believe Obama will give William Ayers a cabinet appointment… …believe Obama will renew his attack upon the Second Amendment… - Fox-y - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:44 pm: If you think the Trib endorsements are fair and balanced, then you might be …. wait a second. - doubtful - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:50 pm: If you think Joe the Plumber is a victim, you might be a hardcore partisan. If you collectively spent over $150,000 on Sarah Palin’s new wardrobe over the last seven weeks, you might be an angry hardcore partisan. If you think Obama is a socialist, you might be a hardcore partisan. If you think posting the results of a Nickelodeon kids poll is the best way to represent your favorite candidate, you might be a hardcore partisan. If you read and comment on political blogs several times throughout the day, you might be a hardcore partisan. - montrose - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:53 pm: Wordslinger - I am fairly certain Palin keeps a detailed list of the pro and anti American parts of the country in her purse. If you cannot find Tina Fey’s version of Palin funny, you are a hardcore partisan. - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:55 pm: If ask why Chicago’s lost more population than Detroit since 2000,according to U.S. Census estimates. - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:56 pm: If you are ask why Chicago’s building 15 new schools when over 100 are half-empty. - Speaking At Will - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:57 pm: If you think thecapitolfaxblog is a mouth piece for the vast right wing conspiracy - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:58 pm: If you ask why former Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy. - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 12:59 pm: If you asked why Bruno Caruso showed up in Catholic Church to help Robert Sorich. - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:00 pm: If you don’t think Alderman Roti was a committed public servant even after he was named as a “made member” of the Chicago Mob. - archpundit - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:04 pm: ===If you think ArchPundit has lost his edge… Oh, I don’t know–I think I’ve lost my edge sometimes. Part of that is because writing Impeach Blagojevich articles every day would be too boring for everyone involved. - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:05 pm: If you want Steve to keep posting comments on this thread… lol. sorry. - archpundit - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:07 pm: If you have no sympathy for Watson for his politics and not for being from Greenville. - Skeeter - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:11 pm: If you respond to blog posts using the middle name “hussein” you might be a hardcore partisan. - Skeeter - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:14 pm: If you believe The Honorable Dorothy Brown is doing a fine job and deserves another run for Mayor, you might be a hardcore partisan. - Steve - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:16 pm: If you wonder why some Chicago city workers have two W2’s for jobs for the hours between 9 and 5. - This Guy - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:19 pm: If you believe Obama, you might be a hardcore partisan. - Tom B. - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:25 pm: If you believe the Cubs will ever win a world series, you might be a hardcore partisan. Or just an _____ - Skeeter - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:30 pm: If you believed Powell endorsed Obama just because of race, you might be a hardcore partisan. - Little Egypt - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:33 pm: If you believe Bill will be appointed to any position in the Obama administration, you might be Bill. - Six Degrees of Separation - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:37 pm: Optimist. - HV in HP - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:37 pm: If you believe that there is a “real america”… - Jake from Elwood - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:39 pm: If you have ever towed a giant Elephant float behind your supersized SUV, you might be a HP. If you have neatly placed your “Mondale/Ferraro” buttons alongside your Jimmy Carter Playboy issue and your Morris Udall propaganda in a bankers box, you might be a HP. HP, meet E-Bay. . . - Six Degrees of Separation - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:43 pm: If you believed Powell endorsed Obama just because of race, you might be a hardcore partisan. If you are wondering whether “Powell” refers to former Secretary of State Colin Powell or New York assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, you might be a hardcore partisan or political geek. - Been There - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:50 pm: ====If you read Illinoize purely for the GOPUSA updates…==== Rich, you need to do something about that. Definately ruins the experience of heading over there. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. It gets to the point you forget what site your on. Have him put a link to another page. Its making me rethink being a hardcore partisan blogger. - bankman - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 1:53 pm: If think Obama is qualified and Palin is not you might be a partisan - Captain Flume - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:02 pm: . . . believe Joe Biden is qualified to be President . . . (Only because Democrats have rejected Biden in primaries consistently, so why would they now believe he is qualified?) - Skeeter - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:03 pm: If you feel the need to repeatedly compare the relative qualifications of Sen. Obama and Gov. Palin, you might be a hardcore partisan. - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:13 pm: If you believe one party is always right, and the other party is always wrong, you are hardcore partisan. If you think Bill Ayers is a “mainstream” Chicagoan, you are a hardcore partisan. If you think government is the best solution, you are a hardcore partisan. If you believe “spread the wealth around” is a good thing to do, you are a hardcore partisan. If you believe Rich Miller is partisan, then you are a hardcore partisan. If you believe that VanillaMan is a Republican, then you are a hardcore partisan. If you think Fox News is partisan, then you are a hardcore partisan. - Irish - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:24 pm: If you are working on the design for “Official A Rod in 2010″ buttons you might be ………… nuts! - Cheswick - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:32 pm: If you’ve been banned from The Capitol Fax Blog…. - Anon - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:34 pm: If you respond to questions about being a hard-core partisan with a canned soundbite . . . - Ignorant - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:43 pm: If you are always trying to win the impossible race you might be a partisan - DzNts - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:45 pm: If you named your kids Brad and Elizabeth because of Governor Edgar (and they’re both girls)… If you’re a republican and openly admire Steve Brown’s criticism of his own Governor… If you hang out at parades hoping to catch a glimpse of John Fritchey… If you still think Jerry Weller is a great congressman… If you own a green “Friends of Lee Daniels” t-shirt… If you upload videos from YouTube of Pate Philip at a 1986 roast of Sen. Dudycz… If you remember Senator Dudycz… If you still have the “Dump Lou; It’s time” bumper sticker on your car… If you still watch re-runs of Jim Edgar’s famous “42% tax increase” campaign videos against Dawn Clark Netsch… If you still cringe when you hear the name Al Salvi… If you still think Bob Kustra would have beat Dick Durbin for U.S. Senate… and… If you left a news anchor job to work for Rod Blagojevich because he offered a new vision for Illinois… - chic ster - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 2:53 pm: if you have repeatedly dragged along your small children to march with candidates in 4th of July and Labor Day parades……. - steal your face - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 3:27 pm: If you believe that the $850 Billion bailout was passed to help Americans and not to bailout big money cronies of career policitians, then you might be a hardcode politician. - steal your face - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 3:28 pm: …or partisan (or both). - GOP gal - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 4:00 pm: If you changed your middle name to “Hussein” on your Facebook/MySpace/etc. profile… If you only date … If you’ve ever walked in a parade dressed as a donkey/elephant… …then you might just be a hardcore partisan. - GOP gal - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 4:02 pm: Meant to say, if your dating is exclusive to one political party…then you’re definitely a hardcore partisan. ) - Leroy - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 4:36 pm: If you think an Illinois machine politician has the word ‘change’ in his vocabulary, then you are a hardcore politician - Bill - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 5:03 pm: Little e, I already have a job and don’t want to move to DC, but when your President calls….well, you know. - Anonish - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 5:09 pm: If you offered money towards office rent for Alan Keyes to stay in Illinois and help rebuild the GOP here you might be a hardcore partisan, but which side? - Captain Flume - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 5:09 pm: Leroy, that’s why machine politicians are known for their generosity. They always say, “Keep the change.” - Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 5:19 pm: If you watch John Holmes flicks several times a day, you would be a hardcore partisan. - Little Egypt - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 6:13 pm: Bill, Blago will have a tough choice to make - appoint you to fill Obama’s 2 years or Fitz. And we know you would take it. And heck, even if you did a fairly lousy job, I’d campaign for you in 2010. Besides, you don’t have to move to D.C. Just rent a room in Durbin’s townhouse. There’s already 4 there and a 5th would help even more with the rent. - Disgusted - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 6:17 pm: If you blindly drink any politician’s Kool-aid, without knowledge or research, you….. If you vote for incumbents in this upcoming election or any other election, you… - WWDMD - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 10:19 pm: If you think Bernie Epton need just one more week… - Quizzical - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:00 pm: If you’re filled with anticipation for Todd Stroger’s next campaign. - Randall Sherman - Wednesday, Oct 22, 08 @ 11:24 pm: Hey Wordslinger, the only person who probably has an “Impeach Andrew Johnson” bumper sticker on his car is John McCain (who probably printed them up during the Impeachment trial) - Black Ivy - Thursday, Oct 23, 08 @ 12:17 am: Didn’t know where to post this, Rich, but can you lay off of the following folks: 1.) John McCain; 2.) Governor Blagojevich; 3.) Chicago generally. Or at least be fair, man! - Deleted Daily - Thursday, Oct 23, 08 @ 10:52 am: …believe a Chicago machine Democrat will make a good President… Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.