codpiece hagiography: Where is Lincoln when you need him

Friday, July 9

Where is Lincoln when you need him

If I had a brain in my head or a working crystal ball I would have relocated to chicago, and registered as a republican. Why? you ask. Well I'm looking for a job and apparently the Illinois GOP is looking for one good man.

The Illinois Republican Party took another body blow Thursday, as the candidate considered the favorite by a number of GOP leaders dropped out of the running to replace U.S. Senate nominee Jack Ryan.

State Sen. Steve Rauschenberger said his late entry into the race would have made it nearly impossible to raise the money required to compete effectively against Democrat Barack Obama.

Rauschenberger said he plans to focus instead on a possible run for governor in 2006.

On the same page in a a sidebar, there seems to be some questions about the recent "draft Ditka" drive.

How desperate are Republicans?

A few are still dreaming about drafting Mike Ditka to step into the U.S. Senate race, even though the former Chicago Bears coach is not registered to vote in Chicago and has spoken to neither party leaders nor his wife about entering the race.

"This whole thing is kind of fluky," Diana Ditka told the Sun-Times. "I think somebody just made it up."

Hindsight is 20/20, and the Time machine still doesn't work.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who died here that that nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."