A Third Party Endorsement

It ordinarily takes a lot to interrupt your LakeCountyEye's dogmatic slumbers -- especially with daylight savings time kicking in at 2AM tonight. So naturally your LakeCountyEye ignored some irrelevant political noise recently produced by the Rockefeller Republicans over at TeamAmerica10th:

If you are a Democrat, an Obama endorsement is often seen as the Golden Ticket to a win, and people go to sometimes desperate lengths to get it... or at least appear like they have gotten it. IL-10 hopeful Brad Schneider may well have crossed the line, however, in sending out a mailer that prominently displays the picture of the President in the company of other endorsers, such as former Congresswoman Melissa Bean, the Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald. Schneider got called out on this by front-running opponent Ilya Sheyman (who recently won a huge victory (73%) in the 10th Dems straw poll this past weekend), and the story has attracted the attention of Huffington Post and Politico.
IL-10: Brad Schneider Taking Heat for Too-Close-For-Comfort Suggestion of Obama Endorsement

It goes without saying that if HuffPo has covered something in Lake County, can the Daily Herald be far behind?

The piece doesn't sit well with fellow Democratic candidates John Tree, Ilya Sheyman and Vivek Bavda. Tree called Schneider's use of Obama's image on the flier "deplorable." "This blatant attempt by Brad to inflate his own campaign with misleading and patently false associations should be called out for the shameful act that it was," Tree said in an email.
10th District Democrat criticized for using Obama image on flier

Now, your LakeCountyEye may be just a simple country blogger, but even your LakeCountyEye knows that these political mailers that choke-spam the US mailboxes during elections do little more than annoy voters and get directly consigned to their dustbins.

So, if your LakeCountyEye was advising Brad Schneider, Schneider's ops are advised to send some nice thankyou notes to TeamAmerica10th and Huffington Post and Politico and the Daily Herald for all the free earned media. And send some nice contribution checks to Ilya Sheyman and John Tree and Vivek Bavda for their help in reaping all of that earned media from some crappy campaign mailer they doubtless spent too much money on.

It also never hurts to send a nice contribution check to your LakeCountyEye.

Turnouts & Turnovers

Will it be Barack Obama (D/IL) v Joe Walsh (R/IL) in 2012? Not since 1860, when back in the day Abraham Lincoln(R/IL) went mano-a-mano against Stephen A. Douglas (D/IL), has Lake County been as excited over the prospect of another All-Illinois, cross-town-classic presidential election.

While Joe Walsh mulls his re-election options, for your LakeCountyEye's money it is a fait accompli that Walsh will jettison any plans to try to win in a congressional district and will set sail direct for the big-kahuna of American electoral politics, the Oval Office -- in Washington DC. And as readers of this blog are fulsomely aware ...

You Gotta Fight for Your Right-Wing Party

a Joe Walsh Presidential primary in 2012 will attract Republican voters in Biblical proportions -- resulting in a deluge of Republican ballots not seen since they had to blow up those dams in Missouri to save Cairo IL.

With everyone and their uncles asking for a Republican ballot, expect a proportionally low Democratic turnout in the 2012 Primary. This would favor insurgent campaigns from the Left, those that would cater to a low primary turnout of Democratic Party faithful.

The Tea-Party-2.0 Republicans at the TeamAmerica10th blog have already identified one such Walsh-style insurgent Democratic campaign, Ilya Sheyman running -- where else? -- in the 10th Congressional District. That drip-drip-drip you hear are the salivary glands over in the TeamAmerica10th war-room, where they can barely contain themselves at the thought of a Sheyman victory ...

you can still tell he's a dyed-in-the-wool progressive, with a liberal agenda that even President Obama would find it hard to embrace. On balance, though, if I were Bob Dold, I would be crossing my fingers that the Dem field holds no more terror for him than this guy.
Congressman Bob Dold Should Be So Lucky...

Ha ha, in politics, crossing your fingers is not a strategy for victory. Your LakeCountyEye wishes to observe that Walsh's congressional brethren could do worse for themselves than kick-off a Draft-Walsh-for-President movement, and tout suite.

LakeCountyEye Rebuttles TeamAmerica10th

Lake County can't get enough parades, and just as nature abhors a vacuum, Lake County abhors a parade vacuum. The proof is the mid-June vacuum separating the Memorial Day and Fourth of July parades that is stop-gapped by the Libertyville Father's Day Libertyville Days Parade.

Among noteworthy participants in Libertyville were the Republican operatives at the TeamAmerica10th blog:

Since I was marching and snapping photos, I can't say I saw the entire parade, but from what I did see, and many people that I asked, I did not see one Democrat organization or candidate marching. I would be happy to be corrected, but I just saw nothing from them at all, which is perhaps unsurprising in an off-election year when they don't need anything from the voters.
Lake County GOP Takes Libertyville Days Parade by Storm; Dems are AWOL Preparing to Sandbag Bob Dold at Town Hall Meeting

Your LakeCountyEye, it goes without saying, is happy to correct any blog that is happy to be corrected. So, if Facebook can be believed, then this should make for some happy blogging at TeamAmerica10th:

Libertyville Days Parade June 18, 2011

Incontrovertible photographic evidence indicates that Ilya Sheyman, a Democratic candidate for the 10th Congressional Distinct, was seen marching in Libertyville.

Your LakeCountyEye notes that some rare bloggers are indeed happy to be corrected. How many are happy to countenance a LakeCountyEye Rebuttles™?