Well, it's obvious that we should all be glad about Foster defeating Oberweis in yesterday's special election for the 14th district of Illinois. However, if you think about it's even better than it looks on the face of it. So let me just enumerate some reasons why it's great so we can wallow in our joy.
- He won Dennis Hasert's seat
- He won a seat that the Republicans have held for twenty years
- He won by campaigning as a hardcore progressive
- He won by being against the war
- He added even more proof to the merit of the 50 State Strategy
- It shows the power of Obama’s coattails
- It shows that McCain’s coattails suck
- Obama probably gets a super delegate out of it
- The NRCC spent a 20 percent of their money just to look stupid and weak
- I just plain can’t stand Jim Oberweis
I have a lot more reasons under the fold.
- I like Foster because he’s a physicist
- I like him because he’s clearly a nerd and not a normal sociopath politician
- He won despite a clear lack of charisma (sorry but it’s true)
- He has the same name as the protagonist from Falling Down
- He’ll stand up for the rights of consumers
- I get to keep comparing to the main character in falling down while I am politely ignored by others on this site
- We can keep making fun of Oberweis for being the Washington Generals of Illinois politics (I stole that joke from someone else on the site)
- This going to cause a shit storm in the Republican Party
- Tom Cole will probably get fired
- The Republicans will all be "cowed" by this
- The Republicans have been humiliated
- The Republicans will probably spend too much of their remaining money defending seats for powerful Republicans and won’t even try to win a majority of the Congress
- The Republicans will get less money for their campaigns now, because why bribe someone who’s not going to be around next year?
- They’ll run the same race in the fall and Oberweis will probably lose by even more due to people coming out for Obama
- The Republicans will pressure Oberweis to step down from the November race, but he won’t because he’s an asshole and has nothing better to do than run for office
- Oberweis is going to keep running for various offices in Illinois and he’s going to keep losing until he’s too bankrupt to run
- We will probably see more political advertising featuring talking cows
- We’ll see a lot less political advertising featuring the phrase "The surge is working."
- Oberweis is the fucking creep that ran that helicopter ad (look up Oberweis helicopter on Youtube)
- We found out that Republicans will stop supporting their party if we can get them to realize what creeps and crooks all their candidates are.
- We get to listen to all the pundits talk about this race and ask if the Republicans are doomed in the fall
- We get to read funny, funny reaction comments on the Free Republic
- We get to look at a map of a penis shaped district and say, "Yep, that’s a Democrat Seat."
- Things look great for us in November