Kind of a tall order, that.

UPDATE: Richard Baehr of American Thinker weighs in:

It is only a matter of time before the national pundits will catch up with what is obvious on the ground — that in Illinois 9, Republican Joel Pollak has real chance to send Jan Schakowsky packing.

And, today I see that Pollak’s fundraiser later this week with Alan Dershowitz is sold out…

If Joel Pollak succeeds in retiring “Public Option” Shillkowsky I hereby promise to say only the most laudatory things about the people of Congressional District IL-9 for as long as they keep him in office.

Some background: last summer, Joel brought his camera to a Schakowsky healthcare townhall meeting. He captured a “community organizer” instructing attendees to drown out dissenters.

Joel didn’t like that.

Seat-kicking

An old fashioned seat-kicking makes me feel warm and fuzzy about a couple of guys running for congress–Pollak, along with Rev. Isaac Hayes who thinks Jesse Jackson, Jr. is a lousy representative for CD IL-2 by the way–taking their megaphones to protest a crony bailout of the infamous Shorebank, which unfortunately was bailed out for reasons Joel wrote about here.

Now for my favorite Joel appearance on Fox thus far. I recommend you watch the whole clip, as it will prove to be a catalyst in propelling him forward, IMHO. The Fox Chicago interviewers did not totally softball their questions and Joel shines through to the last minutes. Sorry, the embed wouldn’t work, so please be so kind as to click here to watch a rising conservative star.

Ears, here is your music candy written and performed by the man who would retire the Helen Thomas-loving, Blagojevich-bankrolling Schakowsky. Backyardconservative filmed Joel at the Daley Plaza tax day tea party. I like this clip because you are within the crowd with bits of cityscape behind (a different clip has thousands more views, but I previously posted it)

Better hold on now. I bring you a Space-Mountain-dizzying plunge from the Good (above) to the Bad &The Ugly*.

As my hero, Mark Levin, is wont to say, now for the torture part of the blog**. Many of you are familiar (more familiar than anybody sane wants to be) with Rep. Schakowsky. Her stellar performance here in front of a claque of gimme gimme gimme Obaalma worshippers is a classic, so if you’ve the stomach, have at it. This is the part where we come full circle. (In case you didn’t notice, this diary started with health care protesting and ends with health care shilling.

Now for the money quote. Send a message to Jan Schakowsky by sending a bit of love to Joel here.

*Tough! I’m a mature female, too and I can be as chauvinistic as I please.

**Relax! I showed courageous restraint and did not post videos or links for the Helen Thomas and Rod Blagojevich references. This is a website with profanity and porn standards, after all!

h/t Moe for pointers on footnoting.

But (whew!) there is a young man who did make it past the primary, and he is Joel Pollak. He seems to be the six-term Schakowsky’s only challenger.

What caught my interest was hearing Eric Cantor on WLSam today, asking us to help Joel unseat Schakowsky this November.

Even better, I found that Sean Hannity interviewed Joel just this week on the tube.

But my second intro to Joel was a song he wrote and then performed this week at Daley Plaza, Chicago: The Ballad of the Tea Party. Take a listen.

I’m glad that someone has the chutzpah to take on a top insider in a so-called safe D seat. I want to see Joel succeed, and it’s not even my district. I’ll do what I can because these arrogant collectivists need to spend money and be bloodied electorally.

Think about this–it is a humanitarian crisis. Save Paul Ryan from having to listen to Shakowsky when the Debt Commission meets.

PS oops! I missed the interview posted by Moe in February from CPAC.

More on Joel’s candidacy here

Funny the videographer neglected to sweep that part of the mob who were wearing swastika armbands, brown shirts and jackboots. And too, there had to be some innocent counter-protesters who were viciously attacked and kicked in the nether regions (at least).

I’ll not be able to get a wink of sleep tonight, worrying about what kind of threat this could mean to my two illustrious senators from the Land of Lincoln. Oh the humanity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_el_pr/richardson

Of course, The One’s judgement will not be called into question. Richardson is a democrat so it’s the fault of the VRWC.

Apologies to the readers for this being so short but after all what more is there to say? I’m sure Moe will come up with something, so have at it! And we still have Burris’ attempt to join Congress to savor. Got to lay in a good supply of salty snacks for the weeks, months, and years ahead.

Throughout the election cycle this site has inspired, taught and rick rolled me. There has been shreiking, blamming, guffawing and windbagging. Through it all we hang together. It works. Even when we’re being 500ed up the wazoo.

Thanks for doing it.

Polar bears are not endangered in Alaska. There is, however, a reason the left wants to declare the bears to be endangered. That reason is to stop the development of our Alaskan natural resources.

Here is Governor Palin’s article from earlier this year.

The lawsuit brought by Governor Palin has not been resolved, but it is important to note that this is a woman of action, not just words, who wants us to have affordable energy resources.

See, when Barack is having a high level appearance in Illinois, the Governor seems to be too busy with budget crises to attend. The fact that the Governor of Illinois is under investigation and might seem to taint the changehope meme, makes him an unwelcome guest at Obama functions.

Okay, so now that we have domestic energy resources as one of the centerpieces of the McCain/Palin ticket, and one of the keys to our national security, how badly do we need to hear a major speech including hot air about global warming?

And the timing is just perfect. Alaskan Drill Here Drill Now Governor Palin joins the McCain ticket yesterday.

Today Arnold becomes conveniently absent.

Not buying it. Pass on this opportunity to share the stage with the current and future Presidents of the United States of America?

Come on, what do you take us for?