Hang Down Your Head, Bill Brady...

Ugh. Gotta love Facebook. You get stuff fresh from the source, unfiltered by biased media.

This morning, this gem from Bill Brady, likely the next governor of Illinois:

After a hard fought primary, Illinois has a unified Republican ticket. Despite the tight race, differences we may have had are resolved. Our ticket is strong and dedicated to all the people of Illinois. I am pleased to appear with Mark Kirk throughout the State today. Come on out and show your support!

I know you have to play the game, Mr. Brady, and once you win this one you'll be indebted to the Illinois machine. But I hope you will realize that you're even more indebted to the PEOPLE who will ELECT YOU. The machine works against us in ...so many ways. Up here in Rockford, the machine has virtually ignored some excellent Republican candidates, left them scratching for money just for campaign signs, as the central committee is literally throwing races. We even have Republicans in Winnebago county endorsing DEMOCRAT candidates, showing loyalty to a "Courthouse Party," and throwing the Republican electorate (as well as their CHOSEN candidates) under the bus.

I pray, sir, that you will remember that it's not the party elites who will make or break you - it's the good people of Illinois who are sick to death of being manipulated and disenfranchised. I don't know a good conservative who feels anything but REVULSION at the prospect of voting for Kirk. I swear, if our primaries were still being held in April rather than February, we would have had a good, solid conservative as our candidate. Most Tea Partiers up here plan to either write in a 3rd party candidate or not vote at all, even if it means a win for Giannoulius. We're tired of being told "You'd better vote for this despicable RINO or else!!!" Well, sir, we have gone so long without adequate representation that we know from experience that the "or else" isn't much worse than the RINO.

So go ahead and play your political game now - I know you must. But know that it will not make you any friends outside of Chicago, nor among Constitutional conservatives. Good luck on Tuesday. Maybe after that you can concentrate on representing We the People, not We the Party Elites. At least, I hope you can.

Illinois Soldiers Disenfranchised: Shame on you, REPUBLICANS!

The Illinois Republicans let out a collective howl earlier this week when they "discovered" that military ballots had not been mailed out in time for many overseas soldiers from Illinois to vote. Knowing that we conservatives are accustomed to blaming the liberal/socialist/Democrat election fraud cartel for disenfranchising the usually conservative voting troops, they lit their torches and belabored election officials around the state for holding things up and not following the law. But once again, we learn that things are not always as they seem.

Doug Ibendahl, blogger extraordinaire and former General Counsel for the Illinois Republican Party, exposed the crocodile behind the tears in a post at Republican News Watch...

Blame the Illinois Republican Party for military ballot scandal

It turns out that several counties didn't get their ballots printed in time because they were waiting on court decisions to determine if Constitution Party candidates should be on it. Why the delay, you ask? Turns out it was due to "... the Illinois Republican Party’s desperate need to keep conservatives, libertarians, and at least four African Americans off the ballot..."

In an effort to maintain their little kingdom (as well as to secure the political future of RINO supreme Mark Kirk ), it seems that our kingmakers recruited a couple of shills to challenge the petitions of no fewer than 23 candidates, including the full slates of both the Libertarian and Constitution parties - and almost all of them good, solid conservatives. The Grand Master of this lynch mob is Pat Brady (No relation to gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady), Chairman of the Illinois Republican Central Committee.

I know several of the booted candidates myself, having met them through the Rockford Tea Party. Included among them are U.S. Senate candidates Randy Stufflebeam (Constitution Party) and Independent Robert Zadek, and Kevin Hendrickson (Libertarian), candidate for 69th Dist. State Representative. All three have launched write-in campaigns. Good luck with that - and I say that with all sincerity.

(Note: Illinois election laws require that third party and independent candidates gather five times more signatures than those required of the anointed parties! So much for the people's choice...)

It seems that our Republican party warriors, rather than just trying to start a kerfuffle to keep candidates from campaigning, were actually going for the jugular, trying to get all REAL conservatives off the ballot, especially those who might offer a conservative alternative to (*gurk*) Mark Kirk, even if it meant disenfranchising soldiers. But henchman Pat Brady and his merry band of marauders struck a major blow against the voice of the people when early in 2009 they killed SB 600, which would have given Republican primary voters the right to elect their own Central Committeemen. God forbid!

At the same time, these would-be gods and generals are utterly failing to support good, solid Republican candidates up here who are reduced to scrounging for cash just to buy yard signs, much less real campaign ads. Rumor has it they're throwing these races to prevent the Chicago Democrats from pouring money into the area, which might topple some of their incumbent GOP Golden Boys. A couple of guys who have a real good shot at local office if they got at least a little support from the state party honchos are Aaron Booker for Winnebago County Sheriff and Robert Brokish, Jr. for State Rep in the 67th District. Both are solid conservatives and damned nice guys, too, with fantastic ideas. But all the Illinois Republicans have done so far is *PTHTHTTTTTT*. For God's sake - HELP these guys!

NOTE TO THE ELITE, ARROGANT REPUBLICAN PARTY OPERATIVES:

It's crap like this that makes we Tea Party people want to SCREAM.
WE DON'T LIKE YOU, EITHER - you just suck less.

The GOP has shown no signs of remorse, much less signs of having a CLUE about how angry the electorate is, or how determined we are to take our government back. Mark my words - if the Republican elites don't get their heads out of their collective asses, 2012 will be a bloodbath and the GOP will go the way of the Whigs, who were equally corrupt and unresponsive.

We the People will have our voices heard.