Roskam's 'wild card' becoming albatross around seventh run at lifetime seat

My congressman Peter Roskam uttered a most insensitive and cynical endorsement of Trump last year with this bit of sophistry:

"I do think time is Donald Trump's friend. I think people are saying... alright, I'm ready to hear this guy out, see what he has got to say with the flash and dash aside. Trump's comments (on grabbing women's genitals) are disgusting and corrosive....they fly in the face of every lesson wife Elizabeth and I taught our daughters and sons about how men and women interact. However, this election is a binary choice in which I am choosing to vote for a wild card over an unworthy candidate."

After 5 months of endless lying, disgraceful insults of world leaders (Russia excepted), congressional investigations and a special prosecutor closing in on possibly treasonous election collusion with Russia, endless pandering to a racist, xenophobic base, and an agenda tossing aside every decent accomplishment of Obama, we're witnessing with horror the result of Roskam's wild card.

Sixth District voters are coming out in droves to push back against Roskam's choice...and Roskam himself as he gears up for a seventh run at what he surely considers a lifetime sinecure promoting ultraconservative causes. He can no longer appear publicly in the Sixth without drawing outraged protesters. Terrified of hosting a Town Hall here, Roskam has abdicated that role to a decent Chicago area congresswoman who treated the large gathering with the respect they've been craving for over a decade.

Roskam loves to tout his conservative credentials. But helping his wild card toss 23 million needy of the medical insurance roles is not conservative; it's radicalism destructive of a decent, caring society. Roskam's wild card has turned into an albatross that may yet turn his seventh congressional run into a swansong.