SECOND UPDATE: GOP IL Chairman Pat Brady calls us "a bunch of fucking faggots"
This is incredibly disturbing news — but we have it confirmed from three separate sources.
This weekend, GOP Illinois Chairman Pat Brady – a man we have long admired, and whom we worked side by side with during the 2008 McCain campaign — has called us “a bunch of fucking faggots”.
We apologize for the use of expletives, but we have it confirmed from unimpeachable sources these are Brady’s exact words. If Brady used them in public against us, then we’re not going to give him the respect of censoring them here. If Brady has this sort of potty mouth, and hatred inside him, then we are not going to do him any favors by blunting his words now.
Just like the Obama White House does with anything bad that it does, Brady is attempting to blame the growing scandal Lee Roupas, GOP Cook County Chair, is involved in on us…and Democrats in Chicago.
Pat Brady needs to be removed from his post as IL GOP Chair. We hope you will help us in the coming week to make sure this happens. Lee Roupas should have been fired on July 16th, 2010 for lying to committeemen in an email regarding his involvement in this coverup, but Brady chose to protect Roupas, because Roupas is favored highly by multimillionare cougar Beth Christie, the woman who REALLY controls the Illinois GOP.
Language like this from a GOP Chair in any state is unacceptable. He would certainly be fired if he referred to anyone as “fucking niggers”, so calling us “fucking faggots” at an event this weekend should not be allowed either. It is beyond ridiculous to blame us for this scandal when it was Lee Roupas’ attack on truthteller Eloise Gerson that brought Brady’s house of cards tumbling down.
It’s amusing to us that Pat Brady feels this way, since we “fucking faggots”, to use his terminology, were certainly useful and good enough to be deployed for McCain campaign activities back in 2008. When we were of use to him, he lavished praise…but when we join the ever growing chorus for a detailed investigation into the conduct of Lee Roupas, Brady’s protege and protectee, we’re called “fucking faggots”.
This is not the Pat Brady we knew in 2008. This is not the Pat Brady we admired. This is a despicable man who has thrown everything he has into protecting other vile, despicable men like Lee Roupas and “The Prophet”. Illinois deserves better than this.
Ever since Eloise Gerson called for an investigation into the coverup Lee Roupas was engaged in regarding the attempted date rape allegations leveled against the Cook County GOP employee known to us as “The Prophet”, we’ve learned that Pat Brady has been industriously trying to squash this story instead of getting into the truth.
Mitt Romney’s nascent 2012 campaign, the Bill Brady for Governor, and the Mark Kirk for Senate campaigns are all involved in this…as the men who are striving to protect Lee Roupas overlap with the Romney, Brady, and Kirk teams perfectly. They are protecting their own in Roupas, and doing everything they can to destroy the people who are demanding an investigation into the truth.
They might as well be Obama Democrats, the way they are behaving.
Lee Roupas tried to force Eloise Gerson out of her position for asking for an investigation. Lee Roupas lied about when he received the information contained in the complaint against “The Prophet”, and in a July 16th, 2010 memo to GOP committeemen Roupas deliberately obfuscated and misrepresented the truth, claiming with great deceit that he did not “receive” this information until Gerson presented it.
We secured affidavits, which The Huffington Post published, that prove Roupas lied in that July 16th email. That alone should be grounds for his firing.
Ever since Gerson blew the whistle on all of this, Pat Brady has been working to save Lee Roupas – and to arrange a deal where “The Prophet” loses his Cook County GOP job, but then assumes a highly paid position as a GOP consultant here in Chicago…while maintaining his control of the Chicago Young Republicans social networking organization — which saves the Illinois GOP a fortune since “The Prophet” uses these young Republicans as non-paid campaign and office staff to support Lee Roupas.
It is the very definition of an incestuous relationship.
Behind the scenes, Pat Brady is being controlled by Beth Christie, a multimillionaire cougar who is the Illinois GOP’s #1 donor. Christie has told Brady to protect “The Prophet” and Lee Roupas at all costs, as these two young men are favorites of hers. The Illinois GOP is essentially bankrupt. Christie has been writing checks JUST large enough to keep it afloat, and to make payroll. She is VERY careful with the amounts of money she gives…always enough to keep the lights on, but never enough for the GOP to tell her to go to Hell (where she belongs), and end her control over them.
Beth Christie is the largest donor the GOP has ever had in Illinois. She knows it, and also knows she owns the party here the way she owns her many beautiful cars, her ridiculously posh residences, and all of her other toys.
This is a cougar with a vagina as insatiable as a Tatooine Sarlacc. Nothing escapes its gaping maw, and no man in the Illinois GOP, apparently, is able to stand up to whatever it desires. Take such a cougar, give it unlimited financial resources, and set it loose in the Illinois GOP and welcome to the mess we’re in now.
We are incredibly disappointed in Pat Brady today. No matter how much Beth Christie’s money and/or vagina means to the GOP in Illinois, it’s despicable that he chose to call us “fucking faggots”.
We know that politics is a bloodsport, and that it’s definitely not for the faint of heart.
But, Brady has taken zero ownership for the scandal rocking the GOP in Illinois…a scandal completely of his own making. To try to claim that “a bunch of fucking faggots is behind all of this”, and point to us, is just ridiculous.
Maybe we should have published that complaint against “The Prophet” detailing an attempted date rape upon a CYR member back in June of 2009 when we received it on July 1st, 2009. We didn’t because we thought the GOP would take care of this internally…and not promote “The Prophet” to a ridiculously high-paying position, without even bringing up the complaint in his interview, all because one lonely, sad, ridiculously wealthy cougar wanted her “Cuddles” to have a big-boy job.
Brady allowed one woman — Beth Christie — to essentially buy the Republican Party in Illinois and turn it into her personal play thing.
When Eloise Gerson, on June 11th, 2010, demanded an investigation into the dangerous frat party Lee Roupas was running in Cook County, Pat Brady worked with Lee Roupas, under the Sarlacc’s orders, to attack the truthtellers.
Lee Roupas declared open war against Eloise Gerson for bringing all of this to light. We have learned that Pat Brady approved that plan to attack Gerson, and to do anything possible to make sure the truth in all of this never came to light.
We would have never reported on any of this, if not for Lee Roupas trying to remove Gerson from her position.
So, if Brady wants to pull an Obama and blame this on anyone, he needs to look at Lee Roupas, not us.
And, while he is at it, if he wants to call anyone a “fucking faggot”, then Pat Brady needs to speak those words to Mark Kirk.
He is the absolute gayest man in any room he enters. He is the Republican Party’s Liberace. If anyone is a “fucking faggot”, to use Pat Brady’s own words, it is the closeted liar the GOP is running for the Senate in Illinois. A man who won’t come out because he’s using his reservist experience in the military as a crutch to get him elected, and admitting what a “fucking faggot” he is, to use Brady’s words, would mean he’d be discharged under DADT. This is all further complicated by the fact that hypocrite Kirk is AGAINST a repeal of DADT, when he is a gay man in uniform in the US military, actively speaking against allowing his fellow gay men and women to serve openly.
The GOP in Illinois is an absolute train wreck.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Today we begin a call for the immediate removal of Pat Brady as the Illinois GOP Chair.
We demand the removal of Lee Roupas as the Cook County GOP Chair, and the removal of “The Prophet” as the president of the Chicago Young Republicans organization.
We demand an investigation into the influence Beth Christie, and the Elizabeth K. Christie Foundation, has exerted over the GOP in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and other states in which Beth Christie has decided to cultivate, groom, and protect her dangerous boytoys.
We want the GOP to clean house…and to make Illinois an example of just how far the party will go to make sure voters have a clear, ethical, distinction between corrupt Democrats, Obama, and what the Republican Party CLAIMS it is all about.
We “fucking faggots”, as Pat Brady has called us, are never going to let this go.
We have an interview booked today with one of the Big Three networks. We are going to be talking ALL ABOUT Beth Christie and what she has done to the party in this state, as well as how it feels to be called “fucking “faggots” by someone we admired greatly.
If you do not approve of the way the Obama Administration blames all of its colossal failings on Bush, then you should not accept Pat Brady’s attempts to blame his mistakes, and the coverup Lee Roupas engineered, on Democrats…or on us here at HillBuzz.
Many of you read us in states far away from Illinois, or in foreign countries, and you might wonder what this expanding soap opera has to do with you.
It matters because cleaning up the GOP in Illinois, the most corrupt of American states, is the first step in taking back this county. Voters WANT to boot Democrats from office, but believe there is no alternative.
Pat Brady, Lee Roupas, “The Prophet”, and Beth Christie discourage Americans from supporting the GOP…because they are just as bad, if not worse, than Democrats most days.
We all deserve better.
And, on a personal note, if you object to use being called “fucking faggots” by anyone, then we ask of you — we IMPLORE YOU — as our friends to stand up for us this week and let Pat Brady and the RNC know that you are not going to sit for a GOP State Chair using this sort of discriminatory and vile language against ANYONE.
We will always respect Pat Brady for the work he did in 2008…but our opinionof him has changed irrevocably as we’ve watched him desperately cover (in ludicrous and poor fashion) for Lee Roupas in this scandal.
Roupas was supposed to be a future Congressman or Senator, and it was supposed to be “his turn” some day soon…so the Illinois GOP has been protecting him as a member of that “it’s his turn” farm team…the one Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and the rest of that cucumber-and-mayonnaoise Soggy Sandwich Society belongs to.
But, Roupas has ended his career by lying…and getting caught…and attacking a woman who demanded an investigation into the young ladies being abused in the Chicago Young Republicans organization.
For all intents and purposes, Pat Brady has now ended his political career as well.
That breaks our “fucking faggot” hearts, but the reality is that Pat Brady was in on this coverup from the very beginning…and he must be held accountable for that if the GOP is to have any credibility at all in this state.
A little soap for his own “fucking” mouth sure wouldn’t hurt, either.
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UPDATE 8/1/10 1616hrs:
Some of you have been asking how we know Pat Brady called us “those fucking faggots”. Two days ago, Brady was trying to explain to a very wealthy conservative here in Illinois why the party was imploding because of things Lee Roupas has been doing in Cook County. That conversation was relayed to us because Brady’s performance was not only so unconvincing, but was deplorable.
Brady lied repeatedly to this big donor, and said that Roupas has done nothing wrong, despite:
(1) Lying about when he received the complaint against “The Prophet” (he says it wasn’t until June of 2010, but the affidavits and emails HuffPo has posted show he knew back in July of 2009, before he hired “The Prophet”). This lie includes sending the July 16th, 2010 email to the GOP committeemen under his Chair that told them he did not receive this complaint until after June 11th, 2010 — when he knew that to be false, and did that to coverup the fact that he never launched an investigation into what “The Prophet” was doing to women…but hired him anyway, because multimillionaire cougar Beth Christie told him to.
(2) Launching a scheme to oust Eloise Gerson from her post as Chicago GOP Chair when she demanded an investigation into why “The Prophet” was never investigated for what’s written in the complaint, and why the complaint never came up in his job interview
Both of the above are reasons Lee Roupas should be fired. Yesterday.
Instead of dealing with this, Brady decided to attack the people who have brought this story forward, and that includes us (as well as Eloise Gerson…whom Brady said would be “destroyed”, and that after the November elections she would be removed from her position).
Brady told this wealthy conservative that “this is all because of those fucking faggots. They are behind all this”. Meaning us, we presume.
But, who knows, he could have meant Mark Kirk being up to something.
Or Aaron Schock.
If someone in the GOP shouts “fucking faggot” in a room, about five dozen heads would turn around. It’s like shouting the same thing at Sidetracks. Only, you’d probably get at least a cosmo tossed in your face, and more likely than not have your face pounded.
Since Brady launched his nukes, we’re going to invoke Godwin’s Law here and say that today we feel like the Jews who get blamed for all the mistakes of others and the bad decisions of people in power. Brady had a meltdown, saw his lies failing him, and finds it increasingly harder every day to justify everything he is doing to save Lee Roupas.
So, backed against the wall, with this big conservative (and rumored homophobe) demanding an explanation (and with no Jews handy), Brady decided to blame “the fucking faggots”.
We’ll note again here that we could have made trouble with this complaint back in July of 2009 if we wanted. We don’t like “The Prophet” and have dozens of reasons for wanting to see him get his just desserts. But we never reported on any of this…not until Lee Roupas tried to orchestrate the removal of Eloise Gerson for speaking out about what was going on…and then later when Roupas sent that email directly lying to his committeemen about what was happening.
So, “fucking faggots” are not to blame for any of this.
Lee Roupas is to blame for this mess.
Pat Brady is to blame for this mess, for aiding and abetting Roupas.
Beth Christie is to blame for this mess, for demanding all the quid pro quos for her mammoth donations that caused all of these problems.
Don’t shoot the messengers…especially not just because they were gay…and especially not because they are the same gays you found so useful in the past when you wanted to seem inclusive and dynamic.
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Just another reason why I don’t consider myself a Republican anymore. Too many guys like this giving conservatives a bad name.
Amen.. I’m with you on that, Eric.
Hey Hillbuzz,
how much is Willard Mittens tied up with that group of people in Illinois?
These people are ALL Mitt Romney’s presumed Chicago ground team for 2012.
Pat Brady, Lee Roupas, Jeremy Rose….all of them meet with Romney when he comes to Chicago. All of them will be Team Romney for the 2012 election.
The Romney Guys are worse than the Obama 2008 people.
Think about that.
You know how bad those Obama people were, and we are telling you these Romney Guys are WORSE.
It should make you shudder…because there are Romney “It’s His Turn” Guys in your state too.
We need to take them all down…starting with Chicago.
boyz,
I hope the Palin team knows all of this and is assembling a “file” to use on the POS when the time comes.
Remember what I said: Romney and his business connections have NEVER been vetted; he was never in the lead. There is prolly more dirty laundry where this came from.
On a personal note, I am sickened that you guys have had to endure this.
And I’m pissed off.
Romney has NOT been fully vetted; he never led the GOP field. His business connections are hidden.
I’m in Utah and his support around here is not as strong as you might think. He’ll win, mind you, but I know a shitload of voters who are waiting for our girl Sarah to announce.
I don’t know what is wrong with these people (insanity? their momma didn’t teach them any better?) … but it sure seems convenient that these guys are suddenly appearing to be “worse than the Obama 2008 people.” Is that even possible?
Something doesn’t smell good here.
Obviously you pose a big threat to a man who you just previously praised and did right by, because HE WON’T DO WHAT’S RIGHT. Let’s ‘clean out the swamp” on both sides, but meanwhile, can you ascertain if Brady has acted in a way to qualify as a hate crime? THAT is unacceptable, and dems love going after repubs on such issues.
Get back to earth….. No One can be as bad as Obama!
in essence I agree… but do you really want the Republican version of Øbama in the White House?
Romney has a well-oiled machine, but he is going about things the wrong way.
If he agrees with what is happening in Chicago then he is not the person who should be in the White House.
Rape, attempted rape, harassment of any kind… all of these things should be a red flag against any candidate who wants to go into the White House.
What I am saying about Romney also applies to Huckabee, or the little that I know about him… in his case the red flag is the “old time religion”… Once was enough with Jimmah Carter….and it should be never again…
In no way shape or form would I ever……
ever
support Mitt Romney.
No *censored* way.
Guys,
A conclusion I agree with. However, I happen to believe that the Romney guys are allied with the nascent Bush wing of the Party.
I don’t believe for a moment that Jeb has fully withdrawn from the race.
Romney has centered a lot of resources in Chicago, apparently, and has done so for a REASON. Why is Illinois so important to Mittens? You guys need to find this out. IL is a Dem state. The Republican Party is a freaking joke there.
Would it be advisable for the Palin people to start building a ground team there to challenge? What is going on there? Is it a cash cow? Has it got more to do with the Chicago Merc?
NOBODY in the national party listens to Illinois, and has listened to Illinois for years. This has to be about fundraising, unless Mittens believes somehow that he can farm IL for votes and use the Illinois Party to raid Iowa for a caucus victory.
One last thing? Would Mittens be averse to a backroom deal with Crist in Florida, given Rubio’s continued weakness?
And another thing: how many of Mittens’ national level operatives are seriously closeted? The reason why I ask is that the Obama people have to be building a file on them so they can be “flipped” at the right time to provide inside intelligence to OFA.
Don’t dwell on this! Move on. Keep the big picture clearly in focus.
Please don’t let this get you distracted from a much bigger issue, our country is in trouble.
Use your energy, knowledge and will to move bigger obstacles. Don’t let small minded people move you away from the main target, Obama.
Granted Bill, no one is more dangerous than Obama, but he is the mouthpiece for progressive dems, so getting rid of him as president does not undo all the damage he/they did and are doing. While, as Beck says, MORE people are talking about the Constitution now than ever before, so too, are more people paying attention and fed up. In that regard, I think it’s more important than ever to have ‘good’ repubs in office, and actually think that a dirty repub is more detrimental to taking back our country than a dem, because, quite frankly, we want to show there is a difference between the two, both philosophically and morally. We need to drain the swamp of ALL bad politicians, starting with LIARS.
Very well said, Integrity1st!
Integrity1st, Please read my post again. I in no form or fashion say or even insinuate that we should support Brady or Romney. My reason for the post was an attempt to ground the boyz. To keep them focused…
I’m sorry to hear about it, boyz, it’s hard when someone whom one respected comes out with a thing like this. Now he too is part of the mess to be cleaned up.
Have you been in touch with Adam Andrzejewski concerning the state of the GOP in your state?
What an ungrateful bastard. Hope he gets his STAT!
Well, Boyz, you’ve certainly, definitely, most positively, and explosively gotten under his (very thin) skin, haven’t you? So keep up the political flaying. You’ll hit WAY more pain receptors that way.
I like that.
Sounds like the fat’s in the fire. We’re with you, guyz. Got any email addresses you’d like us to address this matter with?
Call Bobby Jindal – he has experience with throwing the bums out.
I would love to email the a**holes, got any contact info?
sounds like Mr. Brady has a whole lot of hate in his heart. It reminds me of the saying “when someone shows you who they are, believe them”.
Yes.
agree. and can’t help saying that I wish more people would have done so in 2008.
This is sickening, truly sickening, after I pick my jaw up off the floor I will contact as many people as I can. This is totally unacceptable behavior, what a surreal world we are living in.
This sounds like a liberal mind at work. When liberals get backed into the corner with facts and logic, their only recourse is to come out with foul mouths and accusations.
None of these sound like true Republicans. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing and should be called out and made an example of.
Sounds like Chicago needs to be cleaned from top to bottom.
I am so sorry he said that about you Boyz. His intent was to hurt and embarrass to throw you off task. Don’t let him manipulate you.
This was my first reaction …. it sounds more like liberal/progressives than conservatives. Be very careful guys, you don’t want one group of a**holes using you against another group of a**holes.
To quote Pelosi (and I can’t believe those words came from me) … it’s time to drain the Chicago swamp of ALL these slimeballs. Lib & Con.
“one group of a**holes using you against another group of a**holes” Well said Ten!
this is interesting – appeared in my email box yesterday:
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/channel-5s-ward-room-cites-definitive-source-on-young-republicans-channel-5-ward-room/
Oh, well. You were asking whether or not you should pull the trigger with your intel on this.
Guess that’s your answer.
Fry the bitches. Every last one of the them.
I was thinking the same thing. Who do these people think they are? Some of our “leaders” are about to come crashing down to earth.
Look at the bright side. You’ve been promoted. When you get attacked by Pat Brady that means you’re telling the truth. Brady called me a liar for telling the truth about Mark Kirk, and denied what was there to be heard on the Internet! So you’re in good company.
Don’t let Brady bait you into making this a sexual matter. Sex may have started the controversy but sex is not the issue. Corruption is. Abuse of power is. The Illinois Republican Party is a corrupt organization which is dedicated to being a self-perpetuating organization fed by internal corruption and external patronage.
I don’t care what people do in their private lives as long as it stays private. The issue here is corruption. Stay focused. And always tell the truth. That’s what really scares Brady & Co. They can’t stand the truth. It is Kryptonite for these crooks and phonies.
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Clean them all out in November! From California to New York, from Chicago to Texas!!!
I’d like to add my personal disgust that anyone would talk about a person that way. Just because you don’t agree with a lifestyle – we are all God’s children and should be given respect! I’m so sorry that happened. God bless you guys. You are doing a great job! Make that an awesome job!!
This is not about sex and it’s not about Hillbuzz. It’s about public corruption on the part of unAmericans who are holding office and who have enough power to keep on destroying us.
Agree with Andy. This is about corruption. Yes, the attempted date rape is just as vile as it ever was/is. The corruption compounds the horror, and is geared to diminish the attempted or real assault. THAT is what’s scary about thugs in IL now polluting DC–All this terrible behavior–sexism and racism–is used as a weapon to hide even more corruption.
Welcome to the big leagues, BOYZ. Read up on the Illinois Combine articles by Evelyn Pringle. Slime is slime. Party is irrelevant; country is everything. The Second American Revolution has begun.
This fits inline exactly with Codevilla’s piece about the “ruling class” that many referenced here in the last 10 days since it came out on American Spectator. The Dems are the ruling class and most of the Repubs want to be part of the clique. They are all corrupt and solely interested in furthering their own personal status.
That said, I happen to agree with those who view the only viable option of getting the power back in the hands of the people is to take over the Republican party. If we have to spend so much time and resources building a viable 3rd party, we won’t have anything left to fight the entrenched ruling party. We MUST take back and take over the Republican party and use it as the means to fight the coming dictatorial government growing in front of our eyes.
This is why it is so important to call out the corrupt Republicans and clean house. Don’t settle for anything less. We need leadership working in the Republican party (like Sarah) who isn’t looking to be part of the power clique and who answers to We The People.
Hear! Hear!
and Hear!
Wow! This is beyond the pale. I think this is the time to start demanding that political parties start cleaning house and getting out the arrogant, corrupt SOB’s. I don’t live in Chicago, but have visited there and it appears that the good folks there think there is nothing to be done about it. It is supposedly the Chicago Way and it will be that way forever. It’s time to shine the light of truth on all of it, both Dem and Republican.
Let us know what we can do and who needs it to be done to them. This terrible mess cannot stand, anywhere!
Andy Martin: Mark Kirk’s ex came out today and blamed “the other woman” for their break up. While some say she used wily language, she says he’s not gay. He could just be sexually perverted, into any kind of erotica and experimentation.
Hillbuzz: I am sorry you were called “f-ing f’s”. What do you mean by “homophobe” however? Is this any one who does not subscribe to the gay culture agenda?
First, absolutely unacceptable language & behavior coming from a GOP chair. What the h** happened to the GOP’s supposed “big tent” philosphy? Where is Michael Steele?
Second, Hillbuzz thank you for exposing what we conservatives have always known. The “establishment” is all about power and does not care about “ideas.” (Something in my gut tells me they have no problem with Obamacare i.e. Lisa Murkowski)
Third, there is no doubt this is the GOP “ruling class” leadership on a state by state level. Both Rush and Michelle Malkin have stated that only do we have to battle the liberal Dems, but also the ruling class within the GOP. The latter must be deal with first in order to battle the former.
EricP, I understand why you would not want to be affiliated with the R’s anymore. Right now, the only vehicle we have to beat the liberals and roll back the Obama policies is the Republican party. The last thing we should be doing is abandoning the party and handing over the keys to this bunch.
The establishment GOP is as much in bed with the bureaucracy as the Dems.
This is why the Republican Party HATES Sarah Palin.
And they hate her to this day.
She will cut off the gravy train and they know it.
They hated Reagan too, but the Country LOVED him! The Repub establishment is afraid of Sarah, because she does what she says she will do.
Indeed Gracie. I fight with my R family/friends all the time because they tell me she can’t win. I tell them they are listening to GOP establishment and the MSM. The GOP doesn’t want her to win because she’s an “upstart” and the MSM is deathly afraid of her because they know she can win.
it’s articles like this that have won my loyalty to hillbuzz. i think it perfectly illustrates their philosophy of policy before politics, integrity before ideology.
republicans, democrats, even close associates and friends, it makes no difference: if you’re in a position of power, use your power wisely. walk the walk, serve the people who elected you.
if you can’t uphold the promises that the people put in your hands, don’t be surprised when you’re removed from your position of power.
keep cleaning house, boyz. i’ll be praying for you.
Me too.
I have to agree with little bit. Boyz – stay strong and we’re with you on this fight. And also prayers going your way.
Makes me sick to my stomach…I am with the others here, happy to have you in my life!
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Thanks for the contact info. I am going to demand that Brady steps down. I’m also contacting that wimp, Michael Steele and telling him he needs to clean house.
I don’t understand why someone in his position would spew such vile language. Keep your chin up, Boyz and thanks for exposing the truth.
Looks like I’m gonna be on the phone on Monday.
And it might be rather…eh…colorful.
Since I’m in the Mountain Time Zone, at least we’ll end Monday with a bang, if you know what I mean.
Thank you for posting.
Hang in there Boyz – you’re obviously right on target.
Thank you for this info. Plan to make some calls tomorrow demanding accountability along with calls to the RNC. Unfortunately, IMO, the RNC is part of the problem as well.
OMG! This girl is sitting on her hands right now keeping herself from flying to Chicago and kicking some ignorant RINO butt!!
They all need to go and Romney needs to go down with them. I am really sick of his “people” trashing good honest citizens. First Sarah and now Hillbuzz?? Does he think we aren’t smart enough to know that his people only speak what he gives them permission to say??
If Kirk is taken down, who will run in his place or will that seat go straight to the dems??
Same goes for Pete Hoekstra. When Willard Mittens Romney robocalled for him, that was a dealbreaker. Radioactive Romney needs to get to stepping.
Boyz, Pat Brady’s comment is inexcusable but maybe it’s the ‘silver lining’.
Now. You. Know.
The other day when you reported that you literally had stomachaches from the mixed feelings and sense of disillusionment you were experiencing, I posted that, basically, your biggest problem is that you are too nice…too trusting, and that Brady sucked you in.
Well…here you have ‘Exhibit A’. It ALWAYS boils down to money and power. Brady is no different…if he were, do you seriously think he would have made it this far?
I hope, although it’s terrible what you’ve gone through, that now at least you won’t feel like traitors for going after this SOB hammer and tongs!
As I said before, although back in 2008 Brady treated you very well, it was all an act! I hope you are able to learn from this and (sadly) become much more skeptical. ALWAYS look for the ulterior motive…the ‘agenda’.
You have amazing analytical and strategic skills, but being ‘social animals’, you’re always getting your hearts broken.
As they say in hockey, ‘drop the gloves’. NONE of these bastards deserves all the ‘second chances’ you’ve given them.
‘Fucking faggots’…as my Grandpa would say, ‘them’s fightin’ words’!
Agreed. And burn that bitch Beth(?), the controller, with ‘em. I shall be emailing Monday, as well.
This whole thing makes me ill and your blog today on the vile words Brady used on you put me over the top.
There is a reason Illinois has the corrupt political reputation it does. Our retirement program for our governors seems to be all expenses paid in the penitentiary.
I truly don’t know what the answer is. These people need to go. But I also know that all this scandal will help get the Mob Banker elected. I had been thinking we need Mark Kirk in there at all costs, not because I think he’ll do a good job, but because I felt the last thing we needed was Alexi in the seat. But I am rethinking and I don’t have an answer. We truly don’t need either, but those are our only choices.
I STILL don’t think staying home in November is the answer. Sure wish someone would come from out of the blue and toast them both.
And thank you Illinois GOP for totally screwing any efforts to get some meaningful change.
Is it too late to get an Indy on the ballot? I am not familiar with IL political rules, so I have no idea.
The reality is that with only 93 days until Election Day it would take Jesus Christ coming again and running as an independent for the IL senate seat to get someone other than Alexi or Kirk.
Jesus Christ couldn’t be elected dog catcher in most cities in this nation today…..and I say that with reverence because of what I know about Jesus Christ on a personal level. You want to see some serious butt-kicking, just read the gospels and see what he did with people (of ANY religious or political persuasion)…..He does not take kindly to lies, personal accusations, planning to hurt people, misusing power….
So I doubt very much He could be elected to anything….He’d be cleaning clocks on all sides….
Unfortunately, we would find out that some of the “independents” are in it for the power, too, because they see that as the new “train leaving the station”…power-hungry liars are the problem. It’s never “just” the specific political party.
Only until the sun comes up Nov. 2 — and I see Old Glory at the polling place across from my house flapping in the breeze — will I be convinced that mid-term elections are actually underway.
Emma:
You are right on about an “Indie” party as well. Any structure will attract those seeking the drug of power.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
–Lord Acton
Boyz, what network are you going to be on?
Pathetic.
These idiots have no future. I shudder to think what might happen if they get in power.
Uh, oh. They are in power:((
And then there is this:
The guy who tried to blow up LA International Airport on Millenium Day ( 2000) has now requested US asylum. Unbelievable? The judge is considering his request seriously!! That’s unbelievable!
http://jewishdailyreport.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/muslim-terrorist-applies-for-us-asylum/
This is all so ridiculous, that one would think it to be a joke. Sadly, it’s not.
Does anybody else ever get the feeling that we have well and truly fallen down the rabbit hole – and that everything you ever learned and believed about honor and integrity and common human decency is turned upside down?
Sometimes it’s really hard to stay optimistic about beating back the forces of evil.
But, consideration of the consequences of losing the battle drives one on.
yes to first question.
well said to last sentence.
Erm… As a Star Wars geek it is ripping the heart out of me to see it called a saarlock, it is a Sarlacc! And yes, I have always felt that the gratuitus ‘burp’ shot of the Sarlacc mouth parts in RotJ strongly resembled a singularly unappealing set of female sexual organs.
“Today we begin a call for the immediate removal of Pat Brady as the Illinois GOP Chair.”
Outstanding. And everyone should be in agreement with you.
I always knew Pat Brady was a hothead and a sleaze. But this is truly out of control.
I wish you could name sources, but I certainly believe you. You guys have been right about most everything.
Pat Brady has to resign immediately. The “f” word is a horrible smear and a fireable offense all by itself.
What’s even crazier about it is the fact Pat Brady knows Mark Kirk is gay but yet Brady stays joined at the hip to him. I’m wondering if Brady might be a self loathing closet case. Who knows anymore.
But it’s not our job to work through Pat Brady’s issues. All I know is the guy is a hater and he’s gotta go.
..I learned this as a little kid:
…Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones…, etc.
….I was under the impression that rather than worry excessively about the random redshirt IL GOP Imperial stormtroopers, our efforts should be more concentrated on those pulling the strings, such as the Grand Muff Christie, who they report to.
…YET… I see so many breathless replies by those who amazingly are suddenly are ready to take up arms against some IL GOP loser schlub (multiple redundancies here) who, I reckon, is a lot less dangerous to the US and our families than the current lot of Gypsies in the Palace…
….then, I remembered reading THESE informative guides to spotting online trolls:
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/03/20/troll-dissection-101-can-you-break-down-this-trolls-comments-and-see-its-agenda/
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/01/29/troll-dissection-101-can-you-spot-and-counter-troll-comments/
…and as I reread the posted comments, I had the sneaking suspicion that forces were posting to cause anti-Obama free thinkers to violate Lincoln’s warning about ‘a house divided against itself’….
(similar to the Klingon warning that ‘only a fool fights in a burning house…’)
…I found that certain written comments can also function as the same physical reaction ‘tell’ that poker players look for in opponents…
…and one ‘Name’ I am sure that George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Captain Kirk, old Ben Kenobi, or John F. Kennedy EVER called their opposition was ‘a hater’….. THAT epithet is an Alinsky toolbox construct…
…so FINALLY I have been able to calibrate my MARK 1 troll detector:
quote:
“All I know is the guy is a hater and he’s gotta go.”
Troll or no troll, we, those that love our country, and want it back, are all in the same house, and not divided. There is no excuse for liars, and those known to lie, can do so on other issues as well, and are dangerous, regardless of party. Liars must go.
Don’t feel bad, you must be hitting a nerve. All this dope has managed to do is out himself as an idiot of a certain age. Just remember what Ghandi said -
“First they ignore you.”
“Then they laugh at you.”
“Then they fight you.” <————–
"Then you win."
Congrats, you've hit DefCon3 with this clown.
Go Hillbuzz! It is wonderful that you have friends that are willing to do battle for you. We Buzzers do not take it lightly when our Boyz are attacked…show us the way and we will prevail!
Brady and his “bunch” need to go!
Boyz, do you have, or does anyone you know have, a direct contact/line of communication with SP? I would love to bring this more directly to her attention. Also, what about Breitbart, Rush, et al.?
I’m beyond wasting time, breath, and energy on reacting to what the other side (the dark side) says or does — particular when it’s in reaction to the truth. Alinskey’s tactics are no longer invisible to us.
If you haven’t already, read “Rules for Radicals” — I ordered bought it used and cheap (no way I’m paying full fare for trash), along with a biography of Alinskey — “Let Them Call Me Radical.” Both of them are well worth reading … especially “Rules” — the only book I’ve ever heard of/seen that includes a dedication to “Lucifer” — “the original radical.” This makes my skin crawl.
Which reminds me, when you read these, you’re really going to feel like taking a shower in Holy Water. It is a devilish undertaking, and I do believe Alinskey sold his soul to do what he did with such great success.
First, how can anyone be worse than the Obama people in 2008? You don’t think that those gays who didn’t support Obama were not labeled as faggots? I’d put them in the same boat, but I wouldn’t say they are any worse than the typical, nasty Obama supporters.
Second, I agree that the language was inappropriate, and he should answer for his vulgarity, but all in all, they are just words. You are giving power to his words, when they should not have any at all.
I feel bad for you guys since you have written how much you have respected this man, so I know you are feeling betrayed. Oh well, that’s life in political circles, isn’t it? I hope that it doesn’t sour you too much to push you back toward the leftist scum that have ruined the Democratic party. Just hold your heads up, and go on with what you do. Support the good, and chuck the bad. Yes, he suck punched you all, and words can hurt, but only as much as you allow them to do so.
I am just a little disappointed in the following line that you wrote “This is a cougar with a vagina as insatiable as a Tatooine saarlock. Nothing escapes its gaping maw,…” This comment is done in a similar vain to what was done to you by Pat Brady. Not good in my opinion.
As for Pat Brady, so much for inclusiveness.
By the way, there are other blogs out there criticizing your work with regards to “the Prophet”, who I have read has resigned from his job. It is being said that all of this was much about nothing. Although I feel otherwise, that is what has been written.
I don’t believe you guys are faggots. I believe that Pat Brady is not a very nice man. Now you know who your friends are.
Make that “sucker” punched you.
Glad you caught that yourself. Pondering the possible meanings of your original spelling kept me distracted for the rest of your post!
I chuckled when I reread it, and thought “it figures it had to be an error like that”. My biggest typing errors happen when I, for whatever reason, don’t type “ed” on the end of a word, even though I would swear that I typed it correctly. My mind is saying one thing while my fingers are doing something else.
it was that nasty keyboard again… you pressed the keys and it refused to write your words!!
Nah, if it wasn’t a new laptop, I’d agree with you!
then you need to train your new laptop to be more obedient
Discusting words from a looser.
But see this as a sign that you matter. You are taking flak because you ARE making a difference. Someone is getting worryed. Keep giving them reason to be worryed
If you’re taking flack, you’re right on target!
Agree totally. The reason this is happening is because you are RIGHT and you are working for change — to do the RIGHT thing.
This is a classic example of why Teaparty people are NOT Republicans. Both sides are equally culpable of sleaze.
The whole thing is disgusting, esp. since they were so happy to have your help when you dove in with both feet to help the McCain campaign.
You guyz have been through a lot, and seem to feel the knives from all sides, so I am sure this is yet another blow and it hurts. I know that you guyz won’t let this slow you down though.
GO GET ‘EM. Hoist them on their nasty, vile, poo-encrusted petards.
Both sides are not equally sleazy. The GOP side does have Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan and plenty others who speak plainly and mean what they say. Unfortunately, we probably have a majority who just want to hold the power Democrats currently hold. So we truly have a battle for the soul of the Republican Party goin on right now.
The Democrats are hopeless. The party sold its soul long ago, so there is not battle to be fought there. I say this as a (long-ago) former Democrat who was disgusted as they increasingly ceased to debaqte policy and simply used character assassination and the smear as their tools agaqinst those who would block their climb to power.
Establishment Republicans are simply what Democrats were maybe 20 years ago. They don’t have friends, merely allies of convenience. If we cannot win this battle for the soul of the Republican Party, we will have no choice but to start another party, for there is no party that currently speaks reliably for the rights of the individual and the opportunity and freedom that were unique to America. The Democrats don’t even bother to try anymore.
So make alliances where you honorably can – but don’t mistake someone who is in an alliance of conveience with you for a friend. Friends share a commitment to a common set of principles, not just a transient common set of goals and interests.
Repeating a thought I mentioned the other day–now you are finding things out about Brady that you didn’t know before. It’s just that simple. You see, republicrats are also willing to use people as long as it suits them (their “pet groups” that they use to make themselves look important) and when it no longer suits them, they’ll turn on them in a minute. Christians have experienced this for at least 40 years in American politics. Which is why we don’t bother trying to “feel placated” by dishonest comments from those who we know will throw us under their bus as soon as the election is order…
Looks like you have more evidence that you have lanced a boil on the republican butt…and as a lifelong republican (now just a conservative American) I thank you.
As I also mentioned the other day, now you are getting more evidence that helps you evaluate exactly how much Brady (and his buds) have invested in pursuing the path they’ve pursued. There IS a deep reason that they have not been willing to make this right. THEY DON’T WANT TO.
What they allowed to happen over these past months was NOT AN ACCIDENT. It happened the way it did BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY THEY WANTED IT TO HAPPEN.
We need to continue polishing up our ability to believe our eyes.
What Brady has said is not a commentary on you. It’s a commentary on him. It helps make clearer what’s at stake and that’s a good thing. The vile vomit of violent lies is deeper than any would have accused them of having it.
“What Brady has said is not a commentary on you. It’s a commentary on him. It helps make clearer what’s at stake and that’s a good thing.”
You just hit the nail on the head! By attacking the boyz, he hopes to divert attention away from the reality of the corruption of the IL GOP.
“This is not the Pat Brady we knew in 2008. This is not the Pat Brady we admired.”
Sorry to break it to you Boyz, but yes, it’s the same Pat Brady, only now you’re getting a glimpse into the “real” him. He should lose his job for all kinds of reasons, but mostly for being a two-faced, hateful prick.
You dear, sweet men are young, idealistic and have kind hearts. Live a few more years and the people you take at face value will be as rare as rocking horse manure. For heaven’s sake, you should know by now to never believe a word a pol or pol operative says, including “and” and “the.”
Good reminder—to not believe even the “and” and the “the.” Excellent.
Same thing I was thinking. The “real” him has been exposed. Now is the time to go forth and conquer. Use his own words against him.
Leaders: The Hillbuzz team for always speaking the truth and supporting America over party loyalties.
Losers: Pat Brady for making mistakes, shifting blame, casting for scapegoats, and badmouthing those who expressed public admiration for him and a desire to help him out.
This horseshot will lose them the election. The one thing the Dems fear now more than anything is the mass defection of women from the party with good reason. We look to the left and see timid little Stepfords anxious to knife women in the back to cozy up to their slacker BFs, and a bunch of porn addicted losers. The ONE THING that will force women to once again stick with the Dems is a goddamned fucking RAPE SCANDAL in the sphere of the guy they run. Are they even thinking? This is manna from heaven for the Dems! A rapist paid for and protected in Romney’s circle? I can hear the tromp of Birkenstocks and the swish of burlap skirts over to the Dem side of the fence right now. I don’t care how much money Christie has, she does not have enough to make it worthwhile to choose her checkbook over they dosh the Repubs can score if they take back the WH. Period. The Repubs can do the math themselves. They clean house in IL or else they lose in 2012 when all those good little timid liberal ladies in the Dems’ much abused girlie cheering section fall in line yet again.
There was obviously an assault, but was it rape? I haven’t read that yet, and was wondering what actually happened, and how many times did Jeremy attack females (as far as those who have come forward, anyway).
Janis, you read my mind.
The problem is that, as much as they may agree with me, the Repubs are stuck with Christie because she has the money. That’s the problem with filthy-rich patrons. It was the problem with Ross Perot; his money went far, but when he went looneybins himself, they system he had created was stuck with him because how else were they going to pay to get the flyers printed up?
Even if the rest of the IL Repubs can’t STAND Christie any know with 100% certainty that they have to shake the crazy rich lady and fast, they won’t be able to if they don’t have any support system to replace her with.
It’s easy for us to say “get rid of Christie,” but that’s not what the IL Repubs need to do. What they need to do is replace her. With what is the issue for us? What they need right now is an option. Asking them to make the decent choice and ashcan her isn’t a possibility. What they need is an out, an option to replace her WITH.
The questions we need to ask ourselves are:
1) What is that option?
2) Can we give it to them?
Can we hook them up with another rich patron that they can turn to as a support system? Can we ourselves create an online funding windfall that will match whatever Christie can give them? The Deaniacs in 2004 proved that you can indeed crank up a whole lot of money online. Can that be done now? Can we present the IL Republicans with a check that comes with strings on it from which dangle the following label:
“You can have all this money if you shitcan Christie.”
And can it be enough money to make it a fair trade for them, so that they know they can boot her to the curb and still pay the bills and keep the lights on?
She’s a parasite, let’s face it. And a good parasite will first make the host dependent on it so that the host can’t shake it off when it realizes that it’s getting the life sucked out of it. We need to present the host with an alternate support system, or else even if the parasite is killing it, it will not have the option of cutting it loose.
Like it or not, those are the facts, people. What alternate form of support can be presented to the IL Republicans that will allow them to pry the parasite loose and ashcan it?
Burn her, too. If she’s out of the picture, others may come forward. If not, it’s not worth saving in its’ present state. The republicans just may not be viable in IL this year. Better to be rid of them now, I think.
I agree completely. But they can’t do it until they have something they can put in her place. Right now, they’re hostages.
your a bunch of hard working patriotic Americans.
this blog loves America, and is fighting against Obama’s and the lefts attack on the core values of this country.
The Republican Party should not condemn people’s life styles. It is a private matter. why do they treat supporters so badly? The GOP should be open and not be a party just for white straight people, but all Americans. Sarah Palin would never say that about gay people, one of her closest friends is lesbian.
Why do they treat supporters so badly?
Notice when they do it: when the supporters get independent in thought and speech, get “out of line” and don’t obey the words from on high.
Here’s how Adolph Hitler described the perfect political machine…he started from the opinion that democrazy was out of the question and said that the Third Reich was to reflect the “authority of every leader downward and responsibility upward….
“There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons…Surely every man will have advisers,…but the decision(s) will be made by one man….only he alone may possess the authority and the right to command…no vote (will) ever take place. This principle–absolute responsibility unconditionally combined with absolute authority–will gradually breed an elite (sic) of leaders such as today, in this era of irresponsible parliamentarianism, is utterly inconceivable.”
…and I take exception to the comment back up in the thread a way that as Republicans we ought not to criticize other Republicans….that we are then allowing ourselves to become “troll bait” in some way. You know what??? When I find someone burning my house down, I’m not going to check their political party affiliation before I decide whether to have them charged with arson.
If Ronald Reagan were doing what Brady is doing, I say the same about him.
Do NOT fall for some generalization of the guideline of not critizing other Republicans where the distortion becomes a new weapon to use against us. Talk about building in a guarantee that we are never allowed to clean our own house.
Maybe I am wrong in this specific case, but I don’t “smell troll” in any of the comments here. Even if I am wrong, so be it. I will not be quiet just to generally protect the Republican house when I see them standing over some smoldering portion of America with a blackened, smoking match in their hand. I. Will. Not.
Think of the example it will make to the country as a whole, tossing some ugly chumps even if they are in power positions. What’s not to respect in that? Good advertising for backing up words with actions and what a contrast to Oby and comrades.
I certainly believe the reports.
But if I could just suggest, cite the sources. Say who heard Brady use that slur and where.
Not listing the sources is the only thing that could prevent this from immediately becoming a national story. And it should be. But some reporters will be nervous about running with a story that has unnamed sources. Just stating a fact, the reality.
But add that, and this whole thing comes to an end, and fast. Everyone knows you can’t use the ‘f’ word, and certainly a top GOP official can’t. Michael Steele himself will have to call for Brady to step down as IL GOP chair.
It could and should happen anyway. Just saying you could make it happen even faster, guaranteed.
If you had your sources and just a tad more detail, this would already be on the AP wire. But hopefully reporters are calling Pat Brady right now anyway. Let’s see if he denies it. He probably will. He’s in a corner now and probably feels he’s got nothing to lose. And it’s not like he’s never lied before. It’s why he gets along so well with Mark Kirk. Birds of a feather kind of thing.
Algore walked this week apparently. Good liars need to be outed with as much detail as it takes.
i know it’s a bit off topic, but I was so disappointed to hear that the investigation has been dropped in manbearpigpoodle’s case.
that was bound to happen. If she had gone to the police in the first place, and had not failed the lie detector test, then maybe there would be a cause for further investigation.
Look where the story happened… right in the middle of looney left town…
Wow–just wow. This makes me feel mad and sad and sick all at the same time. Well, OK then, if they want it, they’ll get it! This is war–a war for the soul of the Republican Party and ultimately the nation. My state representative and senator will be hearing from me again tomorrow.
Boyz, please don’t let this discourage you. That’s what I love about you the most–your courage!
Men, you have don well. You are right over the target and getting hits. This is why you are catching flak!
Keep hammering those elite bastards.
Mitt Romney and everything connected to him needs to be exposed. He is a political opportunist, and a coward.
All of his people are the same.
These are the same crapweasels that said Sarah Palin wasn’t a “serious human being.”
I have dedicated my life making sure Romney and his people never get near the White House.
The first thing Sarah Palin did in Alaska was to clean out the corruption in the Republican party. That’s what we’re seeing here. You’re doing a great job and we readers sure appreciate you for bringing the truth to light, even if it hurts.
I’ll pray that you’ll be able to endure the arrows coming at you.
amen
I have a feeling that whatever is happening in Chicago is beyond the pale in the rest of the Country. Chicago, San Fran, LA ,Michigan and Oregon, have gone around the bend. I understand that you live there and want to repair the sickness that pervades it…not sure what inoculation will work, but I have always believed in what I call my one person theory…that one person can either fix or start the fix….so, you are a multiple of my one person theory. Good people who fell into that “don’t be judgmental, everyone is special” trap, are now forced to fight back. That is what created the tea-party protests, that is what created the first minutemen in the 1770s, that is what created America. As much as I hate this, we all need to stay the course and oust these sewer dwellers. You go Boyz! Sticks and stones , etc., you know you are on the frontline, ditto, your readers.
I am so ashamed of those behaviors on the part of conservatives. I feel painted by the same brush, guilt by association. You know how you feel as a kid when your wrongfully accused but still feel ashamed. These kind of neanderthals have just got to go!! There is too much at stake to allow this kind of idiocy in the ranks. The “Big Tent” isn’t big enough for these morons or their associates. If he and those surrounding this outrage had any decency or really cared about our values they would all fall on their swords with loud mea culpa’s to spare the rest of us the trouble of fighting this brush fire. Its hard enough to convince people that conservative doesn’t mean knuckle dragging brute without these kind of people in the party. Please, if anyone has any ideas about what someone in Michigan can do to cut these clowns off at the knees, speak up, I’ll do what I can. I hope my rant makes sense, I’m so P.O’d that I can hardly think straight.
Highly ironic. Just look at what Hillbuzz has brought out of the closet on the disgraced Young Republican leader Jeremy Rose, whom Pat Brady is backing to the point of downfall.
OK, I’m going to display my ignorance here, but I really don’t know the answer to this. Why is “faggot” worse than other derogatory labels for gays? I can think of several that seem more insulting to me, but obviously I’m wrong. Tx.
It’s similar to the way white people used the n-word to refer to black people.
I don’t actually want to give examples of the words that sound just as bad to me. I understand that they’re all insulting. I just don’t understand why this one is worse.
Susan, I didn’t get the impression that anyone thought this particular word was worse – simply that it’s unacceptable and really, really wrong. Maybe I missed something, but I thought it was about any word like this being used, and that in this case it just happened to be the f word.
Hmmm. I never hear white people use the n word anymore — only black people. But that’s o.k., right??
that is the same when using the word “faggot”. It is ok when it is used by one group… but not among straight people.
This guy ought to resign just fro the sheer stupidity of sayin that about Boyz with a forum like this. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
This is deplorable. You guys are absolutely correct in your outrage. Use of language like that immediately turns me against any group that uses them. You guys are doing EXACTLY what needs to be done. When there is any evidence of wrong doing, anything that undermines credability, lets get to it immediately and address it. Any attempts to hide it, cover it, in my opinion, makes you as bad as the opposition. Lets get it out in the open and do everything that can be done to maintain integrity. My wife and I are no longer GOP members, and we will not go back to that party until they grow a spine. Keep up the good work and your hard work for truth and integrity!
I think we all need to cowboy-up about words. I’d like anyone who has NEVER used one of those words to stand and raise their hand. They are just WORDS. If there was tape running whenever we spoke, we would all look like a bunch of hateful bigoted sphincters, so let’s not strap on the phony self-righteousness.
It’s the corruption that’s the problem, not the desperation and name calling. There is so much corruption in the Illinois GOP it’s not even funny. I hope you will cause sun to shine inside that rathole and make them do a house-cleaning.
But let’s keep the focus on the wrongdoing and ignore the name calling. Americans need to stop being such a bunch of panty-waists. Our pioneer ancestors would not be impressed to see us have a hissy fit over a little name calling after they suffered with malaria for years, then died in childbirth.
By the way, I liked the way you worked in Mark Kirk & Aaron Schock. Very clever : )
The words are just a symptom. The hate behind them is the problem — but the words show the hate.
Yeah, if he said “I love those something-somethings” it would have been insensitive, but not hateful. The context matched the language.
Oh Boyz…you must be so hurt. (((HUGS))) to all of you.
I for one am so, so proud of you and the hard work you do and everything you put up with to do it. I love you guys.
And Pat Brady can go fuck himself. Yea, I can curse too.
The hate issue is something that should be dealt with by each individual absolutely REFUSING to tolerate bigotry of any kind.
If I hear someone talking about the f word, the n word, or some similar derogatory word, I say something to let them know that that kind of talk is unacceptable. I do not just go up to strangers and invade thier conversations, but if it is said in my presence, I always make my feelings known on the subject, and if the language continues, I leave the conversation. You boyz are over the target, so it will likely get worse before it gets better. Just know that you are not alone in this. You are all in my prayers.
Hang in there, Hillbuzz.
Hillbuzz is standing right on the front lines and taking it in the chops from people who have used them and lied to them. I haven’t the slightest doubt about the strength of Hillbuzz (as a group and individually). Take a deep breath, guys. You’ve proven yourselves over and over again. You’re not only going to be fine. You already are.
Whether it’s this particular battlefield or something stupid in Minnesota or Alaska or Arizona or Idaho, I still believe that the unAmerican progressives and the rinos who still think they’re going to get away with it—still don’t have a CLUE what has been set loose in this country.
We are all fighting back in ways that hadn’t even occurred to us 18 months ago. We may not do it perfectly. We may not do it consistently. But we are NOT going to sit back any more.
They don’t have a clue what they have set loose. But they are demonstrating that they are afraid of you. I think there’s something richly hilarious about that when you consider how they want to disrespect you. They are AFRAID of you.
I’m a libertarian Illinois Republican, but I refuse to give any money to the dysfunctional State party. I have never had any use for them, and I really don’t have any use for them after seeing this! I now make donations to individual candidates.
You go, HillBuzz! Keep up the great work!
Hillbuzz = 5 x multiple of Sarah Palin’s ‘cajones’. (There are five of you, aren”t there?) :+)
Thank you for standing in the line of fire in shining the light on corruption. Your aim is true, clearly…
On the same topic, think about how everything Sarah Palin is reduced to her sexuality in the attacks against her and hold your heads up high. You are in really good company here.
“a bunch of fucking faggots”
So you guys go both ways? Who knew?
I am not surprised in the least that you have discovered that the Illinois GOP leadership is as corrupt and dishonest as the Democrat leadership. I lived in Will county for 20+ years and I really do not remember ever meeting an honest politician or party leader from either party. And I had to deal with both parties. This is just business as usual for Illinois politicians.
This is so sad it’s almost funny.
I’ve had my fill of ‘homophobic’ neanderthals but I’ve got to tell you I’m sick and tired of the Christophobes too. A persons faith doesn’t disqualify them from office any more than their sexual orientation. Give a little of what you demand and take folks on their individual merits. I remember when I lumped every gay person in with the sado-masochist nun float in the Frisco gay pride parades and NAMBLA. Don’t lump all Christians in with Carter or Swaggert or any of the other Bozo’s out there. Just because you call yourself a Christian doesn’t make you one.
Better a “fucking faggot” than a celibate, non-fucking one, I guess.
Good reporting guys. I was a Romney supporter but this as well as a few other things have turned me off of him. I still think he a role to play in a Palin administration (budget director perhaps?) As far as the Illinois GOP goes, I think they believe they have to play the Chicago game to survive and unfortunately they are as corrupt as their Democratic counterparts. It’s way past time to vote out the corrupt ruling class and to clean up the cesspool
Pat Brady sounds like a contemptible person. However, I am INCREDIBLY disappointed that you guys would say that ANYONE had “a vagina as insatiable as a Tatooine Sarlacc” and refer to ANYONE’S vagina as a “gaping maw.” I’ve always appreciated your willingness to call out sexist criticism of women in politics. Now you’re basically referring to Beth Christie in terms of her vagina. It’s kind of like Mother Teresa saying, “Screw the poor.”
If you don’t like her, criticize her behavior and leave her anatomy out of it. Otherwise you’ve got no high road to take when someone calls Hillary Clinton a “dried-up old cunt” or Sarah Palin a “porn star with huge tits.” This is not what I come to this blog for. Not by a long shot.
Agreed. I heard plenty of girlpart-hating talk like that from Obots. I don’t need to see it here, too. I mean, “You guys sound just like Obots!” is probably not what you want to hear.
Girl parts are great!
I read to the bottom of this post wondering if anyone else was as incensed as I was to read the venom
spewed re: female anatomy.
It was more vile and incriminating and sadly revealing than Brady’s disgusting word choice. I pray that it was written in such a fit of rage that you did not even recognize the use of the most powerful tool utilized by the oppressors, MSM, lunatics etc: the objectification of women.
Guys get called “dicks” all the time and no one seems to notice.
Objectification is not a one way street. As an official “dick” (last time I looked – I blog naked) I can say that the world has much bigger problems than objectification.
BTW I blame George Lucas. The dick.
M said it best: “It’s like Mother Teresa saying “Screw the poor”"–
Brady’s perjorative remarks are wrong on so many levels that I don’t even know where to begin. Back in my youth, I was part of the largest Young Republican Club in the State of Ohio – and our feet weren’t in the graveyard (an easy reference for Cook County political cognescenti). That doesn’t mean that every member of the club or even every leader of the club was a saint or even on the side of the angels. Some people were in it for business reasons and that may be the case with this Pat Brady who is an hateful toad and not worth your angst! If there is justice in this world, he will be drummed out of the organization forthwith! Those kinds of remarks are absolutely not helpful on any level and they are offensive as hell in any real sense.
I’ve been reading your site long enough to know that you are good guys in every respect. I’d be proud to call any one of you a member of my family and I cannot say that about some members of my family! Be of good cheer and remember that you are respected and admired by an old fart living in Virginia!
Brady’s Response on WBEZ: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=43533
Comments, quotes from anonymous sources are really cowardly.
Hillbuzz guys-keep doing what you do best, which is telling the truth. Pat Brady’s remark was beyond cruel and insensitive, this must speak to his character or should I say lack of it. Good guys are those who speak the truth and stand up for it, bad guys are those who don’t.
If the guy said it he should be removed from his position. That’s disgraceful.
As a proud Minnesotan I wouldn’t ordinarily say this, but I wish I lived in Chicago right now so I could help get rid of these douchebags. This is a prime example of the cancer in the GOP that Sarah and others fight against, the people who are just in it to “play the game” and whose hearts are so corrupted that they would say such despicable things about a bunch of honest guys who are trying to call the GOP to a higher standard, a standard of public service.
It may not feel like a badge of honor to have this thrown at you guys by the likes of these people, but that is exactly what it is.