Call It A Comeback
The Leader is claiming it will sue to unseal John Kerry’s unsealed divorce records. Here at ArchPundit, I’m amused at how this will play out. We haven’t heard anything in three weeks on the impending lawsuit, but want to make sure no one forgets.
within the Republican Party are really a good sign that the Republican Party is seeking Latino votes and speaking to the importance of symbolism to racial minorities as well as substantive issues. Good job! A good article on HispanicBusiness.com.
Via Ralph.
The Leader has yet to issue a correction in regards to Jill Stanek’s claims that Jack Ryan’s custody file was sealed from the beginning. It was, in fact, not sealed for nearly a year.
But yet they issues a correction today that is completely incoherent.
The Leader is claiming it will sue to unseal John Kerry’s unsealed divorce records. Here at ArchPundit, I’m amused at how this will play out. We haven’t heard anything in two weeks on the impending lawsuit, but want to make sure no one forgets.
—Hospital board scandal could reel in State House Dem
—State Rep. Jack Franks (R-Woodstock) may have confused his role as a state lawmaker with his role as an attorney for clients seeking permission to build a hospital in a neighboring legislative district. Franks was first elected in 1998.
Small problem. Franks is the Dem. You guys might leave the story to the Join Cross guys. They even have me angry at Franks.
Fran Eaton at the Leader is threatening exactly what I expected them to do to potential Republican nominees–out them if they are gay.
Don?t kid yourself – as the homosexual agenda advances through the state and federal legislatures, more and more political decisions will be based on our elected lawmakers? attitudes about sexual behavior.
While moderate Republicans blast conservatives for withholding support from candidates on the abortion issue, the state party?s elite, so supportive of the gay agenda, is doing the same thing now on homosexual issues.
It?s all fair game in politics. They say they have a right to privacy. I say we have the right to know about the sex lives of those who request our votes and our support. After all, their responses to our questions could affect their vote on whether they uphold the sanctity of marriage as the constitutional amendment proposed for next week?s vote does.
I won’t have that happen here and in fact I just took down a long archived post that warned Illinois Democrats not to do it to Illinois Republicans. As far as I’m concerned, sex lives aren’t are business until they hit the public arena. Once that happens they are fair game, but it won’t start here. There are two comments that hit the edge right now and I won’t remove them, but they are the absolute edge of where to go with that. Over in Kos’ messages there are some similar types of issues that cross the line for what I’ll allow and I participated in those discussions, but I believe I was discouraging the use of such information.
All along, I don’t think that Jack Ryan’s sex life mattered nearly as much as his attempts to cover up public documents to spare his political career. In one sense, some argue that is a meta-scandal, but to me the difference between the Oberweis and the Ryan strategy of dealing with nasty divorces is important. And I still believe had Jack disclosed the issues it would have died relatively quickly last summer. Now, in the Hull case we had allegations of abusiveness which I think turned out to be not as damaging as the actual information.
Now, is being gay relevant to public office? I guess if you believe as Eaton does that it is relevant to the policy choices one makes, then it could be. So go ahead and lead the witchhunt Leader folks. You’ll be creating a mighty small coalition as you go.
Still waiting on the Leader to correct Jill Stanek’s column claiming Jack Ryan’s custody files were always sealed. They were not for over a year.
I hear he has been sent a private plane to come back and the lead the Illinois Republican Party.
So Ralph got to the joke I wanted to use first
But really, the guys behind Draft Ditka are doing a great job and have been mentioned on Daily Kos and other general posts. Thank goodness the Republicans in Illinois have someone with a sense of humor….
Oh, hell, I think they are serious and for good reason.
Actually he does it quite often, but has some pretty good points on a recent column attacking Obama.
Generally, OneMan makes a good point about how no one actually addresses the issues and I hope he does start with some he disagrees on–it’ll be interesting.
Going back to the columnist, I’ll point out a couple other problems. First, the petty bit about whether Obama is biracial or African-American misses the basic point that most African-Americans are multi-racial. Obama, strangely, probably has some of the more clear cut ethnic lines of most African-Americans. Ethnicity is a social construct and we acknowledge it in race as adding both the social and the physical to some degree in physical characteristics. But in society, it is hard to imagine that most don’t view and that Barack himself views himself as African-American.
Second, Herbert’s piece really doesn’t say vote for him because of race. In fact, the message seems to be that Obama is transcending race by reaching people who aren’t African-American. But details, schmetails. And many people do call on people to vote for white candidates that make substantial efforts to reach African-Americans. Two Republican examples include Jack! and Jim Talent in Missouri (I often mention Talent as an example of how white politicians should reach African-Americans).
Many, many more problems, but OneMan deals with most of those.
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