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“We did go to one avant-garde nightclub in Paris”
First, Jack lied. Regardless of the veracity–that is an embarrassing revelation. Interestingly, he is refusing to answer the question of whether this is embarrassing as if that is friggen obvious. Either your ex-wife lied about your sex life or you tried to coerce her to have sex in “avante-garde” nightclubs.
The hysterical thing about the whole deal is pointed out in today’s Capitol Fax (subscription required). Miller:
WORST PRESS CONFERENCE EVER Which political genius in Jack Ryan’s campaign scheduled a dramatic release of unbelievably damaging information on a Monday? The way this is done is you drop a ton of documents on the press corps late Friday afternoon and get the heck out of Dodge. Hopefully, the whole thing blows over by Monday, when people are paying attention again. Now, Ryan’s facing a whole week of bad news, if he’s lucky.
In Team Jack!’s defense, you can’t make a turd smell good, but not angling for a Friday release is perhaps the biggest mistake of a mistake prone campaign next to not addressing this garbage, say back last July so it could blow over.
But no, we had to do this the hard way. The only problem now is that it gives the Republicans the time to force him from the ballot (well from my perspective a problem) and replace him. While there is no statute relevant to replacing him, it is likely that a judge would institute whomever the Republican Party’s Central Committee approved. Edgar is reportedly furious with a capital A for “avante-garde” my ass for being lied to by Jack! about the content of the files. Jack! reportedly only told Edgar his side of the story. As Miller pointed out elsewhere in today’s Fax:
Needless to say, I doubt Brenda Edgar approves of this sort of behavior, even if it is only alleged behavior and even though the former Mrs. Ryan issued a statement yesterday calling her ex a good man and a loving father. Mrs. Edgar is a cocoa and cookies kind of woman. As far as I could tell, cages, whips and mattresses in cubicles were not allowed at the governor’s mansion when she was around. Sources say that Jim Edgar is one furious man right now, and probably still a little sore from having to sleep on the couch last night. “You dragged my good name into THIS?!” I pity the fool.
Unfortunately, Edgar might be mad enough to take the nomination if/When Jack! steps down from the ballot. The other rumor—Big Jim!
Talk about your slap down between the old and the new. I don’t know who wins that race, but I want to be around to watch it. I’d have to give it to Barack on youth and contrast and Big Jim being out of the spotlight for so long as well as demographic changes in Illinois. If either man happens, Barack needs cash. Badly. On the good side, I think we could say goodbye to any ads on either side about gay and lesbian rights.
Rauschenberger is probably choice three and is playing the loyal foot soldier poo-pooing the claims.
Now doesn’t Jack! take on a whole new meaning?
I think that Jack! will be replaced by either Edgar or Big Jim. Their political careers are over, so if they get beaten down in November it will not smash their political futures.
I don’t think that Rauschenberger (or State Republican chairman Judy Baar Topinka) wants to risk his political career in a race that the national party will, at best, under-support.
Run (away) Jack run!
Silly me! If only I would have known…