"Patlackey" Chris Robling's lack of honesty when it comes to the Republican Party, Ed Vrdolyak and the Patlak-Morrison duel

"Patlackey" Chris Robling's lack of honesty when it comes to the Republican Party, Ed Vrdolyak and the Patlak-Morrison duel
Chris Robling touts his senior position as righthand man to Jayne Thompson's political consulting firm. Thompson is the wife of former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson, who for years was very close to Ed Vrdolyak.
Yet Robling doesn't mind turning the lights down a bit to disguise Vrdolyak's connections as he jump into the muddied end of the political swimming pool to wallow and squeal about Sean Morrison, whose candidacy against Dan Patlak proved that the Cook County Republican Party is being ripped apart by selfish rightwing fanatics that hang around Patlak like flies.
One of those flies is Fran Eaton, the political consultant who uses her columns to deceptively promote her pals in office like Patlack. Eaton and Robling are birds of a feather.
Even though Patlak won the Republican Primary, defeating Sean Morrison, the election showed how weak Patlak really is going into the General Election against Midlothian Democrat Casey Thomas Griffin.
Given Patlak's poor election performance and the inability of his crew of creepy and untalented rightwing fanatic activists to raise any real issues other than pejorative and oftentimes racist misrepresentations, it is pretty clear that Patlak can't win the November election. He'll blame the failure of the Republican Party to come together behind him in the November election but the real cause of his quandary is Patlak's association with so many extremists, racists and his pandering to the Fran Eaton and Chris Robling nutjobs who have fractured the Republican Party in Cook County with their vicious fanaticism.
These fanatics -- often referred to as "Patlackeys" -- have done everything to promote their own selfish agenda while Orland Township Republican Committeeman Liz Gorman has done everything she could to save the GOP in Cook County including with her successful campaign to turnback the Todd Stroger Jr., sales tax hikes. Gorman did that almost single handedly while most of the other board members gave up trying until they saw her rally once, twice and then a third time with success. That's the kind of persistence that the Republican Party has lacked for a long time. Instead, the GOP in Cook County has been plagued by the "Patlackeys," a rabble of deceitful activists who are promoting their own agenda.
Rather than reach out to mend the GOP divide, Patlack has sat back on his confused hands while his Patlackeys have been out there slandering and defaming Morrison and Morrison's supporters. Imagine the idea that every other party should have a primary except for the Cook County Republicans. These are the same stooges who backed Mark Thompson who was slam-dunked by Gorman in the 2010 Republican Primary battle for the Cook County Board. Gorman went on to win the district in a record landslide.
Knowing that Patlak is in trouble in November, Robling is on the warpath slamming anyone who dares to question the Patlackeys and their poor political choices.
Most real Republicans will sit back on their hands on the race for the Board of Review in November and Patlak will surely lose office. Instead of bring the Republican Party together, he is demonstrating the precise reasons why he was such a bad candidate in the first place, his inability to bring Republicans together.
Robling is stepping out on a weak limb with his less than honest attacks against Morrison and his mudslinging against Liz Gorman. His continued efforts to drag Ed Vrdolyak into the debate only raises questions about Vrdolyak's longstanding ties to the former governor. Oh, I'll bet Robling was fawning all over Vrdolyak back then when ERV was the GOP boss. But now Robling wants everyone to ignore how the Patlackeys brought Vrdolyak into the long past GOP soiree. 
Robling, a B-List political pundit will continue his slander against his critics in much the same way that Fran "Lurch" Eaton has helped to undermine Republican Party strength with her feeble analysis and partisan observations that advance her personal friends.
But it won't work. Morrison didn't beat Patlak but the fact was that Morrison got a huge boost when his candidacy was back by Gorman, who remains a heavyweight in the Republican Party circles. Maybe Patlak likes hanging around with morons and fanatics. Or, maybe Patlak is just to meek to stand up and push the extremists aside and try to build a Republican campaign that brings everyone together rather than continuing to tear the party apart at the unseemly seams. 
That's what defines leadership. The ability to do what's right for the Republican Party or to do what's right for the fanatics who are tearing the party apart.
-- Ray Hananiawww.hanania.com