Roskam lonely Illinois GOP presence at Trump coronation

Talking heads at the GOP Convention next week will have a limited number of Illinois GOP'ers to interview on the impending coronation of racist, xenophobe, misogynist Donald Trump as their presidential candidate. The only Illinois GOP biggie who hasn't bailed on the loathsome Donald is my congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6). Pete sees all the KKK and white nationalists flocking to the Trump bandwagon and gloats 'he's bringing new voters into the GOP.' If Roskam is concerned about Trump leading the cheers to smack around Trump rally protesters, even offering to pay legal bills for their shenanigans, he's keeping mum. He's knows his conservative Sixth District base loves Trump, giving him a resounding Illinois Primary win. No way will Roskam follow the lead of his principled Republican Senator Mark Kirk and disown the poisonous racism infecting the Trump campaign and spilling into our body politic. Besides Kirk, state GOP head Governor Bruce Rauner has bailed on the Trump coronation, as well as all other seven Illinois GOP congressmen, DuPage County Chair Dan Cronin, Illinois Highway Authority Chair Bob Schillerstrom, Illinois Manufacturers Association President Greg Baise, top GOP fundraiser Ron Gidwitz and Regional Transportation Authority Chairman Kirk Dillard.

Decency, principles, public good all take a back seat to the Roskam agenda of restricting women's reproductive rights, degrading the IRS's ability to keep the republic solvent, preventing national health care, sabotaging rapprochement with Iran, protecting the NRA's lucrative assault weapons juggernaut, and ignoring climate change concerns. Hey, what's more important: Protecting the commonweal or breaking predecessor Henry's Hyde's record of 16 Sixth District victories?