27 Comments - DuPage Saint - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:37 pm: There is no Republican Party as I used to know it which I guess is fine. They can be the party of stupid and hate and keep digging that hole deeper. I wonder what the lowest number of Republicans in state offices has ever been because they are going to set a record. Sorta like watching the Sox set a record. However I have been reading about Republican running for Kane County Board chairman and he makes this lady look like Einstein - Roadrager - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:44 pm: Congratulations to Rep. Casten on his next term. - Rudy’s teeth - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:49 pm: Sounds like some folks in the 6th Congressional District are serving baloney sandwiches at the debate rather than dogs and cats. - Proud Papa Bear - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:49 pm: Think I’ll go ahead and make this race the free space on my election bingo card. - Excitable Boy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:52 pm: I have no idea how anyone can live in this district and think racist anti-immigrant hysteria is a winning platform. Turn the teevee off and go to Costco once in a while. - levivotedforjudy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:52 pm: The defending of this ridiculous claim sounds nuttier that the actual claim now. Let it go folks. - Candy Dogood - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:52 pm: There’s so much about Niki Conforti’s background that would have made her a great GOP candidate several cycles ago. I don’t think she was as prepared for this debate as she could have been, but her ability to respond to positions is incredibly limited by the fact that she wants to support Trump and support the things the Supreme Court has done. She really only seems prepared to discuss positions and problems, real or imaginary, that appeal to the most ardent right wing voters. She could have been a better candidate and instead I am left trying to decide whether or not she believes the things she is saying (I hope not) or just repeating the talking points that she thinks are a good idea for her to repeat — which is a different kind of moral failing. - Demoralized - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 12:56 pm: Republicans have allowed their party to be taken over by lunatics, conspiracy peddlers and hatemongers. - TJ - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:00 pm: One of my favorite memes is a clip of Eric Andre repeatedly shooting Hannibal Buress, only to then somberly look to the side and ask, “Who killed Hannibal?” Why is the GOP dead in the suburbs? Because the GOP killed themselves. - VK - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:04 pm: The Republican strategy for the suburbs seems to be screaming at the top of their lungs for the voters to not believe their lying eyes and ears. - low level - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:20 pm: ==Sixth District hopeful Niki Conforti of Glen Ellyn also blamed crime in Chicago and elsewhere, as well as the spread of communicable diseases, on immigrants.== Right. We never had crime nor communicable diseases before migrants arrived. Unreal. As Mike Quigley likes to quip “we are all now more stupid for having attended”. - JS Mill - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:24 pm: This is what you get when a formerly legitimate political party is taken over by the collective village idiot. It used to be that people that talked like this were not taken seriously. Now that is the actual party platform. - Pundent - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:28 pm: Conforti’s strategy seems to mirror what we see from the GOP at the national level. It’s devoid of any policies and instead relies on wild made up stories, overt racism, and a denial of easily proven facts. It doubles down on appealing to the most extreme members of the base while leaving others scratching their heads. They are essentially willingly following the former President over a cliff. - Jerry - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:28 pm: Do Republicans even understand that whatever “immunity” Trump has, Biden has? - ZC - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:31 pm: Trumpism on net seems to have boosted the GOP’s fortunes in a lot of districts nationwide that previously favored Democrats, but there have been tradeoffs. Unfortunately for IL Republicans a couple of those tradeoff districts are next to Chicago / Cook. - workingfromhome - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:32 pm: We live in the 6th and we’re seeing lots of Casten signs along with lots of Harris/Walz signs. - West Side the Best Side - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 1:47 pm: Did the debate take place after Vance basically admitted he was selling a line of bullstuff to help his campaign? If it did then Conforti is definitely a member of the Weird Bunch. - H-W - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 2:08 pm: === Conforti said she’s the daughter and granddaughter of Greek immigrants. The U.S. needs to check the health and criminal backgrounds of would-be immigrants like it did with her family. === News flash, Ms. Conforti. We do this, and could do it better if your segment of the Republican Party would put your money where your mouth is and support the bipartisan plan to invest more money on immigration and customs services, instead of your self-contradictory plan of building a wall first. - Incandenza - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 2:39 pm: Another great product of the University of Chicago Econ department /s - Siualum - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 2:54 pm: She states (of the stories) “They don’t fit the narrative of the left, so they are being buried”. These “stories” don’t fit the narrative of the left because they are inherently untrue. - Suburban Mom - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 2:57 pm: In my suburb the GOP has put up in recent years a slate of candidates for school board that wanted to degrade the curriculum significantly to make it less “woke” by which they primarily meant remove all history and social science AP classes, turn US history into a jingoistic version, and restrict AP Lit to only “wholesome” books, which freaked out even the most conservative parents because you move to these school districts for the college prep education. Though bizarrely well-funded, they lost by a significantly larger margin than Trump did. When 98% of your students go to college, you don’t mess with the schools. - TheInvisibleMan - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 3:27 pm: –One of my favorite memes– “That’s right, it goes in the square hole…” Otherwise known as how the ILGOP discusses policy positions, where every answer is some anti-immigrant delusional nonsense. And the voting populace is the reaction of the person watching the video. - Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 4:07 pm: Considering her education and professional experience, I would say Conforti is cynically repeating things she knows are false because it is expedient politically, which is much worse than genuinely believing falsehoods. - JoanP - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 4:09 pm: = “They don’t fit the narrative of the left, so they are being buried,” = Typical conspiracy theorist. If there’s no evidence, it’s because “they” hid it, and therefore the lack of evidence proves the conspiracy. - Heartburn - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 4:42 pm: As Three Dimensional Checkers puts it, it’s much worse. she’s not dumb. she knows [banned word] well this is all bunk, and that there are real people being put in danger by these lies. I keep thinking of the Jean-Paul Sartre quote about anti-Semitism applies to this situation, fascists gonna fascist. “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” - Xmayor - Tuesday, Sep 17, 24 @ 5:05 pm: The Republican Party in DuPage is no longer. It is the Trump Party. The Republican Party in DuPage, Illinois and the USA will only be able to start the long trip (years probably) back when for starters Trump loses. Local, state and National Republicans have caused this massive change by Not speaking out contrary views about Trump, although most of them do feel that way, but are afraid of political consequences of not backing Trump. Well sorry folks the consequences for not doing that at every level will result in more Republican loses this Nov. - halving_fun - Wednesday, Sep 18, 24 @ 7:13 am: This isn’t just a Illinois Republican problem. It’s an Illinois problem Until the underlying issues get acknowledged, discussed and resolved, it won’t change. They’ll always be a candidate like this every election Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.