Leadership/Communications

Last week I offered suggested resolutions for conservative activists in Illinois so today I have a question for our Illinois Republican state legislators: What will you be doing differently in the new year? As a citizen, a member of the Republican Party, an elected Precinct Committeeman, and a taxpayer, I have a few suggestions.

Many members of the Illinois Republican Party are in danger of falling into a new delusion now that we enter the post-Blago era. CBS2Chicago.com reports that FBI Special Agent In Charge Robert Grant woke Governor Rod Blagojevich up at his home at 6 a.m. today and told him –

– “that two agents were outside waiting to take him into custody. He was asked to open the door and was arrested without incident.

‘Is this a joke?’ Blagojevich told Grant.”

My guess is that I’m not alone in being extremely tired of reading shallow post election analysis. Why did Republicans lose two straight elections? It’s not because they don’t know how to win – not long ago, they held the very power the Democrats hold today.

What Republicans don’t know how to do is govern according to their principles. GOP principles demand bringing real reform to government. To successfully implement that kind of reform our Republican leaders would have had to aggressively make their case and win public support for that change. But they failed, so voters tossed them out.

Earlier this week a OneNewsNow.com article titled “Voters distrust ‘diluted’ GOP” included this:

“A conservative non-profit organization has completed a study that shows the liberal tsunami on Election Day 2008 was not because the country wanted to move radically to the left, but because voters wanted to punish Republicans for abandoning conservative principles.

Republicans in the state senate are about to choose a new leader. They might want to think twice about whether they’ll muster enough rank and file party support should they electChristine Radogno, a pro-abort legislator who is confused about human behavior and thinks that how a person likes to have sex is the equivalent of race and gender.

And Kirk Dillard’s commercial for Barack Obama surely doesn’t inspire the kind of confidence Republicans need to have if they’re going to pitch in and help advance a GOP agenda.

Two paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal this morning serve as a good short glance in the rear view mirror. The view through the windshield is what I’ll be summarizing over the next several days and weeks. It’ll be easy to write about the path ahead because I’ve been doing so for years. Yesterday merely confirmed that I’ve been right all along.

One of the many issues the main stream media has been failing to cover is that of the fraudulent contributions coming in by the truck load to the Barack Obama campaign coffers. Can you imagine the outcry if the John McCain campaign had dropped the security restrictions in their acceptance of online donations?