Marathon Pundit: Moonbat McKinney wins Illinois Green Party presidential primary

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Moonbat McKinney wins Illinois Green Party presidential primary

In other Illinois presidential primary news, there is a third presidential winner in yesterday's primary election to report. Cynthia McKinney easily defeated three other opponents, winning 57 percent of the vote. Almost 3 million Illinoisans voted on Super Tuesday, but just over 2,500 of them picked up a Green Party ballot.

After Rich Whitney received 10 percent of the vote in the 2006 gubernatorial race as a Green Party candidate, the Greens became an official party in Illinois. Of course, few of those voters had any idea what they were voting for when they picked Whitney, a belief of mine the Greens passionately dispute.

More from Capitol Fax:

* In the Cook County precincts of Illinois House District 41, Green Party candidate Kevin M. O’Connor got 14 votes. Jerome Pohlen, the IGP's candidate in the 3rd Congressional district, got 41 votes in the city. And the Chicago ward committeeman contests were a joke...

GRN - Ward Committeeman, 5th... Christian K. Wedemeyer 11 votes

GRN - Ward Committeeman, 6th... Beverly Neely 2 votes

GRN - Ward Committeeman, 7th... Nathan Peoples 2 votes

It goes on and on like that.

The Green Party isn't "dead." There's still a chance that the politics of this state are so messed up that they can make some minor inroads in November in one or two races. But yesterday's exercise in party building was an abject failure. So far, the IGP appears to be little more than a "none of the above" choice, rather than a party that people actually want to belong to.