This is it until Sunday–I have Cubs-Cards tickets for tomorrow.
1. Uberweis–he’s willing. And he came in second. Free Ice Cream!
2. Ditka. The idea seems to have some traction to say the least, but I heard Mrs. Ditka is more frightening than he is.
3. Jack! getting beaten out of the press now. 5,000 people party on the north shore? Didn’t the last one involve some sort of hazing?
4. Andrea Grubb Barthwell. Quit her post–overtures must have been somewhat promising
5. Schillerstrom. Doubt he’s dumb enough to do it with no party money (I hear Rauschenberger was only offered $750,000.
6. McCracken. See above.
7. Wood. Send conservatives into a tizzy. Be fun, but not much fun for the Central Committee
8. Borling. Moderate for a general election, but 2.4% kills him.
9. Jonathan Wright. Build for the future.
10. Norm Hill. Only way he’ll do it is if they mistake him for Ryan at the 5,000 person rally on the North Shore.
11. Kathuria. Resume too long to finish for the Central Committee members.
Minus the bizarreness of a Ditka choice, this could be a full scale meltdown the GOP Leaders were hoping to avoid. Ditka would mean everything goes into chaos. Either the moderates tank the ticket with the conservatives or the others tank it with moderate swing voters and marginal Republican leaners meaning the down ballot suffers. Ditka may be the GOPs best hope at this point.
I think it would be a mistake for Ditka to run – he’ll never close the deal without Buddy Ryan on board.
I sent some folks at the obama campaign an e-mail asking them if their Opposition research now includes the proper way to defend a 2 tight-end set on 3rd and 3.
Has nobody seen this? http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-sen09.html
“Ditka for Senate? Wife says: ‘I think somebody just made it up'”
You think Jack! had a background problem? Wait until you see Iron Mike’s OR file…