-By Warner Todd Huston
For the most part I want my writing, opining and reporting of the GOP field of candidates in Illinois to be relatively even handed. I have avoided too much high strung rhetoric and have not made any obvious endorsements because I want all of our Republican candidates to have this forum and to get their message to Illinois Republican voters. But I will not from this point forward be loaning my forum to Bob Schillerstrom in his quest for the GOP nomination for Governor.
There are some things with which I agree with Mr. Schilelrstrom. He is generally a fiscal conservative which is good. However, he is also a pro-abortion candidate and an anti-Constitutional rights candidate. These two things are enough for me to jettison any further reporting on his campaign.
The final straw comes for me with Schillerstrom’s announcement of getting endorsed by a radical abortion advocacy group, the Personal PAC. This group claims to be “bi-partisan” but is far from it.
It’s current CEO, Terry Cosgrove, has been involved with some of the most radical baby-killing groups in the country (like NARAL). And with the exception of one ACLU supporting “Republican,” its board consists of a bunch of University and lawyer types — none of whom are in any way “bi-partisan.”
With this endorsement I have to cease all further reporting on Schillerstrom. It’s bad enough he cares so little for our U.S. Constitution that he feels no compunction about picking and choosing which Amendments and rights he’d like to apply, discarding the rest, but with this endorsement of the baby killers of the Personal PAC, that’s it for me.
The Republican tent is not big enough for candidates that both hate the Constitution and approve of baby killing. Goodbye Mr. Schillerstrom, may your campaign meet with nothing but failure.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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I will never understand why it is so important to some people to chop up and murder babies. I know some people are in it for the money but even with greed as a motive, are there not better ways to make a living? And then many of these same people have the audacity to call our military men and women baby killers.
If Bob Schillerstrom wishes to associate himself with such people may his candidacy go down in flames. The world does not need to give such people any power whatsoever.