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• Thursday, September 11, 2008 02:56 PM

  Blago and Palin

  Most Illinois Democrats held our noses and voted for Blagojevich in 2006 because the alternative was worse. We could either have a corrupt megalomaniac who (nominally) agreed with us on most of the issues, or we could have a corrupt megalomaniac who was a diehard Republican (Judy Barr-Topinka) and a voice like fingernails grating on a blackboard. (It was the voice, in the end, that truly decided me--I just didn't want to hear that for the next four years. Trust me, it was the lesser of two evils.)

  Other than that--let's see: like Palin, Blago insists on living in his home city, rather than the state capitol (where he'd have to rub elbows with the Downstate hoi polloi)--at taxpayer expense; like Palin, Blago puts personal connections and conflicts (often corrupt) ahead of state business; like Palin, Blago plays fast and loose with taxpayer money...and he thinks he's doing a fantastic job and should be re-elected for a third term (please, God, no.)

  Also, I guess you could say they're both easy on the eyes, although I stopped thinking of G-Rod as political beefcake a long time ago.

  I guess we should be grateful that Blago is Catholic and not a member of some wackadoodle premillenialist cult masquerading as a legitimate Protestant denomination. But he's managed to alienate most of downstate Illinois and even large parts of his own party.

  —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters
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