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.