Draft Fitzgerald

[billroper]

In his column in today's Chicago Tribune, Dennis Byrne suggests that the best thing that could happen to Illinois politics would be to draft Sen. Peter Fitzgerald and re-elect him to the office that he currently holds. Since Fitzgerald is the only Illinois politician that I actually like -- he may sometimes be perceived as a crank, but even when I don't agree with him, I find he's my kind of crank -- this sounds like a pretty fine idea to me.

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In other news, Gretchen and I watched the extended edition of "The Two Towers" last night and are off to see "Return of the King" tonight.

(Verbose today, ain't I?)