First of all, to blame the republicans completely for wasting tax payer money to run 'fake candidates' is ridiculous. They wouldn't even have to run anyone if the democrats and unions were not forcing the recall.

Secondly, if they had not had a primary in the recall election, the final vote for all 6 republicans would have been back in July, while the democrats (who sued until their lawyers couldn't appeal any further) wouldn't have to face their recall until next Tuesday. Had that delay not occurred, it is very likely that many Republicans would not have been at the polls like they were earlier this week. After all of the hate mongering, misinformation, and everything else being spouted people on both sides were motivated, which was ominous for the democrats.

Thirdly, most (if not all) of those districts have a liberal lean in presidential elections, so it could spell disaster for BHO's reelection campaign.

Finally, this is hilarious, he looks like he's about to cry!
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/127488388.html

 

Right -- the only reason that a few Republicans ran in the Democratic primary was to force the need for a primary in the first place -- to level the playing field by giving the Republican candidates roughly the same amount of time to campaign as the Democrat candidates.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,1287204.story

just saying, they forced a recall, deal with it. both sides had massive ammounts of money comming in to support their cause

 

Here is the section that is crossing between the truth, and MSM opinion of how it should be/what they want you to think :
Have to like the Trib applying labels to people :
Guess we should now call Hillery Clinton a fake Democrat. When she got out of law school, she worked with the Republican party in IL for quite some time.
Where was the MSM pointing out that she was a fake Democrat in the primaries against Obama ?

Forced a recall or yet another WI Democrat process for making a mockery of the WI political system, because they did not get their way, just like hiding in IL and Graeme Zielinski accusing the county clerk of election tampering.

Expect more of this to happen over time.
Democrats are slowing loosing ground again, and I can only guess that they are going to pull every thing out of the bag to try to hold onto the majority.
The Republican majority lasts for quite a while, voters get pissed off, vote in Democrats, and then kick themselves for another 4 years, and switch back. Democrats seems to be trying to get the majority control back to the 1860s to 1930s time frame ( where it was the other way around ).

If both sides did not spend the money again, it would make the real election a waste of money. It was an election, just like the last one, and just like the next one.

 

Recalls are supposed to be reserved for those in government who are committing crimes, like the last few IL governors.

When representatives and senators are recalled for simply voting as they were elected to, that is an abuse of the system. This is the very reason many states do not allow recalls.

I can understand the desire to recall the democrats that abandoned their job and fled the state, although I'm not convinced that is enough to recall them, but I'm positive that will be a huge element to each of their reelection campaign.

I am just glad that the embarrassment of our union initiated recalls are over. What's encouraging is that the elections thus far have pretty much shown that a recall of Governor Walker is going to fail if they attempt it. Also, Zielinski and Tate put at the forefront how democrats are nothing more than spoiled, whiny brats.

 

We now have a higher conviction rate for governors than murders in IL.

Word to the wise kids, want to stay out of jail in IL, don't become Governor.