Sauerberg shames Durbin on Chicago Tonight

If Steve Sauerberg is anywhere near as good as he was this week with Dick Durbin on WTTW's Chicago's Tonight, tonight's statewide radio debate will be something you won't want to miss. 

Sauerberg stood firm against the arrogant Durbin, stayed on message and one can't help but think Durbin has been forced to regather himself for tonight's statewide back-and-forth.

WTTW's 25 minute discussion, moderated by Carol Marin, was substantive and clearly defined some of the stark differences between Sauerberg and Durbin, including a portion on the hot abortion topic.   

You'll need to go to WTTW's site HERE to watch, but just start watching.  You'll want to see it all.  The last comeback from Sauerberg at the very end is worth waiting for.

Catch Durbin and Sauerberg Thursday night by tuning into a local radio station at 8:00 PM.  Local listings are HERE.

Comments

[Mark Rhoads]

Why is this a radio debate only? This is the sort of event the Illinois Channel is designed to cover, where are they?

[Frank Goudy]

Rhoads has a good question. Any answers out there?

Sauerberg is clearly the superior candidate. However, I fear this Obama onslaught in Illinois, as well as the usual Chicago chicanery, will swamp him.

Let's up him out the best we can and get out our vote for him regardless of the polls.

[PhilCollins]

Sauerberg isn't clearly the superior candidate. He's pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-Hillarycare. He's slightly less liberal than Durbin.

Obama won't have large coattails, in IL. A Sept. poll said that, in IL, Obama was ahead of McCain, 49%-34%. 2% supported other candidates, and 15% were undecided. Since the margin of error was at least 3%, Obama will win about half of the vote, in his homestate.

[Liberty]

Pro-choice? Sauerberg was endorsed by IL RTL. Pro-gun control? Sauerberg is a gun owner and has been vocal in his support for 2nd Amendment rights. Pro-Hillarycare? LOL. Try Pro-Coburncare.

No offense, but I would hardly call a candidate who has been endorsed by Dr. Tom Coburn - who actually came to campaign for him - a liberal.

[BillyBoy]

Pro-choice? Yes. Illinois Citizens for Life has consistantly rated him "Not in full support of pro-life issues" since Jan. RTL disagrees and endorsed him. Of course, they also endorsed George Ryan over Glenn Poshard, and Andy McKenna over Jonathan Wright, so that tells me all I need to know about their crediblity. Sauerberg was endorsed by IL RTL. Pro-gun control? Yes. He's repeatedly said he WOULD support an assault weapons ban and other so-called "reasonable" gun control measures, and no gun group will support him. He "owns a gun". Okay, so does Mayor Daley. Your point being? Pro-Hillarycare? Says the feds should be directly involved in health care and his goal is to give EVERYONE in the United States "affordable" Health Care.

Tom Coburn endorsed him? Okay. In 2006, Fred Thompson endorsed Linc Chafee and personally went to Rhode Island to campaign for him. Does that mean Chafee is a conservative because a solid conservative endorsed him? Nope, it just means the party establishment wants him elected. Fred's guy Linc Chafee's currently helping Obama.

If Sauerberg's conservative, I'm the Easter Bunny.

[Michelle]

Phil mistakenly thinks a person can win office only by being right and not having any resources or organization -- which is why he won't spit out sour grapes and Mike Psak. Kind of shows how ridiculous conservatives in illinois look when they don't move on.

[Frank Goudy]

If anyone believes that Durbin is clearly the superior candidate, or even modestly better for that matter, then they can vote for him and actively defend his voting record.

[BillyBoy]

Neither Durbin nor Durbin lite (a.k.a. Steve Sauerberg) are the superior candidate on the ballot. Both are poor choices for the U.S. Senate and Sauerberg isn't even qualified for the job and has a grasp of the issues needed to be a Senator.

Sauerberg has no chance at winning this election and the same people who annointed him as the candidate were the ones who annointed Judy Barr Topinka.

Republicans will not win this state until they run qualified, decent candidates who unite the base.

I will vote for the superior candidate on the ballot, which is neither Durbin nor Sauerberg.

[Tom]

Billy Boy--
waste your vote and feel good about re-electing Durbin.
Let me guess- you're voting for the perennial, ineffective always-on-the-ticket-somewhere Chad Koppie, right?

[PhilCollins]

Michelle, I never thought that a candidate can win by being right and not having any resources or organization. However, Psak should have had more resources and organization. He campaigned since 2003, and his petition was signed by voters who live in 96 counties. He was the only candidate, in that primary, who was pro-life and pro-gun, and he was endorsed by two Minuteman groups. He received 11% of the vote. 89% of Republicans are moderate or don't care about helping conservatives.

[BillyBoy]

Tom,

You guy Sauerberg is polling about 10 points BELOW what Jim Durkin got against Dick Durbin in his decent but complete unfunded 2002 challenge.

Sauerberg can't break 30%; therefore the idea of voting for him to "stop Durbin" is laughable. He is a pathetic sacrificial lamb candidate the ILGOP put out and all the conservative support in the world won't change that.

So go ahead and vote for Sauerberg, I'll be you $100 it won't do anything to prevent Durbin's re-election. All you'll be doing is sending a message to the ILGOP to run more RINOs and we, the conservative base, will rubber stamp them.

Your choice.

[BillyBoy]

The last time "perennial" candidate Chad Koppie was on the ballot for a major office was a decade ago in 1998. I suppose Mike Gravel would be a "perennial" according to you.

Interesting enough, the same people who accuse Koppie or Salvi of being "perennial" candidates if they decide to run again a decade later, have no qualms about demanding we conservatives "get behind" Jim Oberweis in EVERY single Republican primary (2008, 2006, 2004, 2002), though he has yet to be elected to a single office.

[Gary Dunlap]

Chad Koppie is the ONLY conservative candidate running for senate. When are we going to stop voting for who MAYBE can win and start voting for someone who SHOULD win regardless of the odds. Saying a vote for Koppie or any other third party candidate is a waste is nothing but a self fulfilling prophecy.