For too long folks like Delay, Frist and Hastert have hijacked your party. Moderate, CONSERVATIVE (which you clearly are not) repubs like Whitman, Guiliani and Pataki have been quieted by the zealots. I heard recently that most people are not blue or red, but purple. I tend to agree and when you elect such far right atrocities with no intelligence, only brute, to office, you have shunned most of America.

We are tired of religion in our politics. And not just religion, but Evangelical Christians, which leaves out a large number of Americans. They are to be separate and you know it. I don’t care what our money says, our hearts are not to be played with by trying to make folks feel guilty. We have jokes like Scalia who is humiliating our highest court by gesturing obscenities in church. He is not religious at all just another mean fool.

Times up and you have had your go at all branches but it doesn’t work. Your system obviously is a failure. Using God, Jesus and religion and war to win is evil and just smells of classlessness and desperation. Desperate, thy name is republican.

Now, if only the real republicans would come out of their hole and stop letting the zealots win their races for them on lies and fear, we can get back to the way America was meant to work, warts and all. So the Constitution says.

Illinois is a Blue state due to the fact that Chicago is OVERWHELMINGLY a Blue City. The rest of the state is largely conservative (whatever that means). White Sox fans would almost certainly have a higher % of Democrats than Cub fans.

However i’m no Chavez fan either

Could it be becuse Ozzie Guillen did not show up at the White House last October?

Isn’t Oz from Venezuela? (He is a recently naturalized U.S. citizen, according to the Trib. Still, I wouldn’t blame him if he just decided he’d be more ill-used by Bush than by Chavez.)

Could it be because Bushie is close friends (going back to Texas) with the owner of the Reds?

And furthermore, the Cubs are owned by republican paper Chicago Tribune, which probably explains both Dusty Baker’s remark and how he got, er, bushwhacked into the photo with El Mufacito. In fact, scroll down in that article linked above for Ozzie Guillen, and you’ll wonder what it is about Chicago sports figures and Bushes.