Chicagoist: Jack Ryan Is...

sven

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:37:21 -0600

personally i think.... when i rome... do as the romans... so when they went to the bath-house... it shouldnt have been that big of a deal... oh wait... they were in paris... ahhh,... gay pari.

South Sider

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:23:06 -0600

What do we need Republicans for anyway? Chicago is a Democrat town, and we don't vote for any of those hoity-toity North Side "Oh, look at me in my fancy avant-garde Parisian club" Republicans! The Daley administration keeps this city workin' and the Democrats are the only party this town needs.

Claire Zulkey

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:16:07 -0600

Ah well, at least Ryan is still kind of cute (ok, not as cute as Barack.)

Steve

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:07:25 -0600

Obama was going to win in a landslide anyway -- I just hope this scandal doesn't "taint" his huge victory in any way. You just know there are gonna be plenty of GOP Faux News types who will be all "Barack Obama, the freshman senator from Illinois who won election after his opponent was found to suffer occasional moral lapses...."

kfan

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:35:53 -0600

I was going to vote for Obama anyway.

jake

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:25:24 -0600

"hey, what are all these naked people doing in this parisian avant-guard night club? and why aren't i wearing any pants?"

Pete

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:14:26 -0600

Well, at least Ryan did manage to lock up the "fans of Eyes Wide Shut" vote.

dw

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:41:58 -0600

My comment from the earlier post on J. Toast Ryan -- Conventional wisdom: he's toast. Next week's conventional wisdom: he's an amazing underdog who has hung in there after being socked with a scandal by yellow journalists. The press won't be able to get to September without trying to turn this into a story of personal redemption and an amazing comeback. Very unlikely to close a 20 point gap, but Ryan's numbers will only go up from a low point this week.

Benjy

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:37:35 -0600

Seeing as Barak Obama seems to be running away with the election already, I'm wondering whether the GOP leave Ryan in the campaign or whether they attempt to replace him, which would then mark two candidates' campaign records. Kind of like the baseball manager who leaves in a starting pitcher getting shelled simply to rest the bullpen for the next game...

Don

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:27:04 -0600

Yep, toast. And we're talking the kind that's all crispy and flaky from setting the browning level too high. You could also add it's not the scandal that sinks you, but the failing of the cover-up that does you in. I am sure there are plenty of Republican voters who wished this information were out before the GOP primary, so that they could have made a fully-informed decision about whom their representative should be in the general election. In that case, perhaps the milk guy could have won, or that Rautscehnburger(sp?) guy. The only thing that could have been worse for Jack Ryan in this case would be if he had managed to win in November, and then have the divorce papers come to light. He'd spend the next 6 years as an Illinois senator that would be joked about, and he'd make the state look bad by having him represent them.