The Chicago Tribune reported last week that, in response to the difficulties of finding a replacement for Jack Ryan in the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate, Illinois Republican Party Chairman Judy Baar Topinka said this:

The state, as well as the press and the public, deserve a strong candidate, so we can debate issues, so that it's not just a free ride of warm fuzzies [about Barack Obama].

This begs the obvious question: what the fuck is wrong with warm fuzzies!? Politics can be nasty, and the GOP had its chance. Instead of supporting Jack Ryan when he was being maligned by irrelevant and salacious accusations (as they ought to have done), party officials decided to elbow him aside to dawdle and fuss while Obama seized the day. All they can offer now is an ad hoc concoction of slanders and attacks from a puppet candidate who's born to lose. Sorry Judy, you haggard old bitch, but I'll opt for warm fuzzies instead. I obviously need them.