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In which I agree with Ted Cruz
Monday, Jul 2, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller * I have always hated Illinois Nazis…
It obviously wouldn’t kill Rauner to restate his beliefs, but he did speak out about this months ago. * From the piece that re-ignited a story which originally broke in February…
Republican legislator (who I love, btw) who always criticizes Rauner criticizing Rauner again? Check. Chiding the ILGOP for not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of person-hours to find a candidate who is willing to help gather a minimum of 14,559 valid signatures and then run a full-on and completely doomed independent campaign to make sure a Nazi who is going to lose big loses even bigger? Check. The biggest mistake the party made was not finding a warm body anywhere in Illinois last year to put up against the Nazi in the primary. But they did spend money on robocalls and mailers warning people who the candidate was and GOP primary ballots dropped by about a third compared to four years ago. Do they deserve grief for letting this clown go unopposed? Heck yes they do. But after that mistake, they weren’t left with a whole lot of doable options. The Democrats are absolutely loving this bind the Republicans have put themselves in…
* And now the ILGOP says they’re looking to run a write-in candidate in the general. That’s probably the easiest way out of this by far (they only have to notify a few county clerks), so I figure they’ll do it and this story will mostly go away (unless there’s something bad in their new candidate’s history - and you’d better believe the Dems will be looking). But if they don’t find anyone, they could just fall in line with this dude…
In other words, recommend to Republicans in the 3rd that they vote for Lipinski. I mean, if you listen to the progressives, he’s practically a Republican anyway. /s Thoughts?
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- Keyrock - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:02 pm:
Why snark? He is practically a Republican anyway.
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- Politix - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:07 pm:
That’s obviously the best recommendation.
Shouldn’t Ted Cruz be worried about his own campaign, though? If Beto keeps picking up steam, he will be out of a job.
- ArchPundit - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:13 pm:
It was a mistake, but it wasn’t going to be a serious race anyway. They put up Ray Wardingly how many times? I mean, yes, he was an improvement over an actual Illinois Nazi, but it’s not like it is going to have an impact either way.
I’d be happy with everyone forgetting about this clown (no offense to Ray) just to not give him the attention.
- AlfondoGonz - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:19 pm:
It’s bewildering that the ILGOP did Nazi this coming and do something to prevent it.
As it is, the Fuhrer that results from this calamity will be uproarious and well deserved. We can only that, somehow, the GOP makes things Reich, rather than becoming deniers.
- wordslinger - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:20 pm:
–The biggest mistake the party made was not finding a warm body anywhere in Illinois last year to put up against the Nazi in the primary.–
Ridiculous laziness. Rauner’s spending millions of his own dough on that crew, a minimal effort was in order.
Instead, the lazy translates into embarrassing national headlines.
How’d Ted Cruz get involved? Did he clear out all the wack-a-doos in the Texas GOP already, and was looking for something to do?
He might want to take a closer look in his own backyard.
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:21 pm:
I appreciate a politician who has the guts to publicly state the obvious. ‘Our guy is worse than their guy’. Why should that be so hard? Refreshing alternative to the unconditionally partisan politics that are becoming the norm.
- Long time R - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:34 pm:
McSweeney just loves to hear himself talk. But the more he talks the more one thinks about the likes of Ives, Proft and Peraica. Please Dave do something constructive and quit with the constant finger pointing
- 47th Ward - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:35 pm:
===they did spend money on robocalls and mailers warning people who the candidate was…===
Hmmm, has it occurred to anyone else that perhaps this warning actually helped him win? Yes, he’s a bit more extreme than most Republicans, but in the Trump era, isn’t it possible that some GOP voters wanted to nominate him?
As you sow, so shall he reap. Everyone, especially Republicans, needs to condemn everything this Nazi stands for. I hope he gets zero votes in the fall, but I suspect he’ll get thousands, many of which will be cast by those who know exactly who this guy is.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 2:56 pm:
===actually helped him win?===
Um, he was unopposed. Try to keep up.
- 47th Ward - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 3:08 pm:
I stand corrected. Surely some of the 20,000 Republicans who voted for him knew who they were voting for.
Is that better?
- Perrid - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 3:25 pm:
… I agree with Ted Cruz… that is something I never thought I would have to write… I don’t know how I feel about this…my view of the world is threatening to crumble around me…
Seriously though, this dude really needs to get 0 votes. Vote for Bugs Bunny if you want to.
- Stark - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 3:51 pm:
I consider Lipinski to be closer to what the GOP used to be more than I consider him a modern Democrat.
- Lester Holt’s Mustache - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 3:54 pm:
Maxwell can go pound sand. The guy who says there’s good people on both sides of the white supremacy debate has an 87% approval rating among republicans. The gop governor nominee in Virginia frequently marches with folks waving swastika flags along with the stars and bars. Long time GOP rep King from Iowa constantly quotes and re-tweets stuff from these people. A body could spend all day listing white power examples from far right politicians, activists and media figures. Bruce himself might be a moderate, but the newly-empowered majority of his party definitely is not.
Until Pritzker is marching in the streets with Lou Farrakhan and Joe Biden starts tweeting quotes from Stalin, spare us this “blame both sides” malarkey.
- A guy - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 4:24 pm:
The Dems ought not keep up this line of baloney. I promise it’ll come back to haunt them.
Rauner could easily cut a slate of commercials and run them widely and often…telling people to vote for Lipinski or no one at all in that race. I wouldn’t be surprised.
It’s not quite in the same category of letting 2 LaRouchies on the statewide ticket or the Scott Lee Cohen dealio. It was a “given up for dead Congressional race” like 6 or 7 others.
They were lazy in a race they wouldn’t win and couldn’t win…Bad form. Shouldn’t have happened. The Lemonade comes when the Dems overplay this issue and Rauner comes out super strongly (Cruz style) to condemn this guy. It may actually help him.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jul 2, 18 @ 4:39 pm:
The Raunerite Party has three functions;
1) Be the funneling tool to keep money parked at times for the caucuses, the county organizations, etc.
2) Be a secondary mouthpiece for Rauner, so when vertical integration was in vogue, they could be that 2nd, 3rd, 4th place to pass on the messaging.
3) Be the negative mouthpiece to anything Madigan or those who are against Rauner to link them to Madigan.
There’s no recruitment, no voter registration, or the building of an organization of people… unless they are on the payroll of pols’ political organizations (rewards), or need to be on the program, then are placed in a chart.
That’s how you get a candidate that’s a Nazi.
- titan - Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 8:18 am:
In all fairness, trying to knock him off the ballot for the primary was not likely to work. Several people reviewed his petitions, and while he was a bit thin on numbers (turning in only about 33% over the signature minimum), I think the reviewers came to the conclusion that he would have survived a challenge.