When Ray LaHood becomes too liberal to be a GOP candidate, I’d just like to thank the Illinois Republican Party for shutting out the lights at HQ since they have clearly packed up and gone home for the cycle.
Administrative Contact:
Leubscher, William ****************@aol.com
9559 S. Mozart Ave.
Evergreen Park, IL 60805
US
Pic is available here. Scroll to the bottom.
Via Bill at Peoria Pundit which was via the Capitol Fax
To add to Bill’s comments, Peter Fitzgerald had horrible poll numbers and he didn’t like being Senator. The reason he didn’t run again is Karl Rove laid out the problem to him and he saw the light. Being Senator is a grueling job and I don’t begrudge anyong giving up that job, but saying it is LaHood’s fault misses that Fitzgerald was a pain in the butt even if you agreed with him.
After looking at the site, I’d create a conspiracy theory behind the site with me behind it other than I’m not. Looking at the list of potential candidates ‘better’ than LaHood, four of the five are wet dreams of Democrats and Blagojevich. Only Rauschenberger would be a serious challenger and he still has to explain why he thought Alan Keyes was a good idea.
Birkett is one of the sourest and most unlikeable politicians in Illinois. Pat O’Malley is the right wing version of The Blagorgeous. Shimkus has what appeal above Springfield? And Jim Oberweis? Uh, no.
In case anyone forgot, John Kerry won the state by 10 points. Why does anyone think a right wing Republican can overcome a 10 point deficit to start.
None of this is to say LaHood is the answer, but the wisdom of the Median Voter Theorem is ignored at your own peril.
Even more interesting is that the site appears to be ready to become registered as it has a solicitation for funds. Most interesting is it’s parent site:
And that the guy involved is from Evergreen Park which, of course, is no where near the 18th CD.
And he had a role in Spanky’s campaign
Those have got to be the most irritating web sites made between the cheesey music and the flashing banner gad. Let him design all the republican web pages please
So let’s see. Worked for perennial candidate Wardingly. Worked for O’Malley and Kathuria (courtesy of Capitol Fax). And now is making awful web sites with cartoon images of Reagan and Lincoln poo-pooing LaHood?
It’s funny, it seems as every political organization has one or two of these marginal, amusing and margianlly amusing gadfly types. But the IL GOP seems to have enough to bus them to other states and still have plenty to make us laugh here at home.
LaHood’s ACU lifetime rating is 74. That’s rouglhy 3 of 4 votes. He’s been as high as 92 in 2002 and dropped back down to 72 in 2003. Henry Hyde was respectively 83 in 2003 and 88 in 2002.
Voting conservative 3 out 4 times, while not perfect, isn’t bad.
You might want to check out these sites; http://www.lahood06.com, http://www.raylahood2006.com, http://www.lahoodforgovernor.com. I think it may link to a site that LaHood’s people would not be to happy to be associated with.
That’s what I call some quality cyber-squatting.
For the uninformed: Median voter theorum says that for any voter of color in the median of a divided highway, Karl Rove will hire three drivers to run them down.
Isn’t Krystle Russin the woman who wrote Q+A interview stories for the Illinois (Mis)Leader for a while. Whatever happened to her (besides more “photo shoots” apparently)?
She has her own web site named The Reagan Review. How old is she now? Wasn’t she about high school age when she wrote for the Leader? It says on her web site she still writes for Purepolitics.com.
Check out the site of Arthur J. Jones, Independent Republican running for the Third Congressional District of IL:
http://www.arthurjonesforcongress.com
…and expose Ray “Spanky the Clown” Wardingley:
http://www.arthurjonesforcongress.com/expose.html