GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - March 23, 2008

DIERSEN QUESTION: If Romney had secured the nomination, who would he have named to run the GOP national convention?

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
-- DECATUR JUNE 6 & 7: Illinois Republican Party Convention & Hotel Registration Form
http://www.digitalvictorycms.com/_uploaded/465060-2008%20Illinois%20Republican%20Convention%20Brochure.pdf

POLITICO
-- VERY VERY VERY SAD: This will get GOP insiders a buzzin' - Jonathan Martin
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0308/This_will_get_GOP_insiders_a_buzzin.html
(THE POSTING: Via Playbook, I see that Bob Novak has the below item in his notebook column tomorrow. "John McCain's team that is taking over the Republican Party has decided on Bobbie Greene Kilberg, a liberal Republican from Virginia long detested by conservatives, to run the party's national convention in St. Paul, Minn., in August. "Kilberg, as an aide to President George H.W. Bush in 1990, promoted White House overtures to gay activists. She won an internal power struggle over gay politics with fellow Bush assistant R. Douglas Wead, who was fired as White House liaison to religious conservatives. When Kilberg appeared on television by McCain's side the night of Feb. 12 after he won the Virginia primary, her presence was resented by conservatives as a sign of contempt for them." This means little to the outside political world, but will create a stir among the elite of the elite within national and state GOP circles. UPDATE: A McCain aide says that Kilberg has not been tapped to run the convention and is only serving as a liaison with the RNC. McCain has not decided yet on who will run the convention, said this source.)

RUSH LIMBAUGH
-- VERY VERY VERY SAD: Novak: McCain Names Liberal Babe to Run GOP Convention
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_032108/content/01125104.guest.html
(THE POSTING: McCain has picked a huge, huge, not an independent Republican, not a moderate Republican. He has picked a liberal Republican to run the Republican National Convention, a woman, according to Bob Novak. She was involved in the George H. W. Bush administration with some kind of outreach. It's in the stack here somewhere. That's a slap in the face. "John McCain's team that is taking over the Republican Party has decided on Bobbie Greene . . ." This is a female, "Bobbie Greene Kilberg, liberal Republican from Virginia, long detested by conservatives, to run the party's national convention in St. Paul in September. Kilberg, as an aide to President George H. W. Bush in 1990, promoted White House overtures to gay activists. She won an internal power struggle over gay politics with fellow Bush assistant R. Douglas Weed, who was fired as White House liaison to religious conservatives. When Bobbie Greene Kilberg appeared on television by McCain's side on the night of February 12th after he won the Virginia primary, her presence was resented by conservatives as a sign of contempt for them." What else are conservatives supposed to think? This is McCain saying, "Screw you guys! I know who my base is. I know where I want my support to come from, and I'm going to go out there and I'm going to get it and I'm going to let this babe run my convention."

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
-- VERY VERY VERY SAD: McCain's liberal - Robert Novak
http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/856289,CST-EDT-novak23.article
(THE POSTING: John McCain's team that is taking over the Republican Party has decided on Bobbie Greene Kilberg, a liberal Republican from Virginia long detested by conservatives, to run the party's national convention in St. Paul, Minn., in August. Kilberg, as an aide to President George H.W. Bush in 1990, promoted White House overtures to gay activists. She won an internal power struggle over gay politics with fellow Bush assistant R. Douglas Wead, who was fired as White House liaison to religious conservatives. When Kilberg appeared on television by McCain's side the night of Feb. 12 after he won the Virginia primary, her presence was resented by conservatives as a sign of contempt for them.)
-- VERY VERY VERY SAD: Chicago Sun-Times promotes amnesty, otherwise known as "a humanitarian pathway to legalization for 12 million undocumented immigrants"
http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/856291,CST-EDT-edit23aa.article

CHAMPION NEWS
-- John Kass is right, says conservatives aren’t the problem - Doug Ibendahl
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=880
(THE ARTICLE: The Chicago Tribune's John Kass has another excellent column this Sunday called In Combine, cash is king, corruption is bipartisan. It's a must read. Here is just an excerpt: "'In the final analysis, The Combine's allegiance is not to a party, but to their pocketbooks. They're about making money off the taxpayers,' [Peter] Fitzgerald said. He should know. He fought The Combine and lost, and the empty suits running the Republican Party encourage their friendly scribes to blame the social conservatives for the disaster of the state GOP. Conservatives aren't the problem. Corruption is the problem." Truer words were never spoken. Good Republicans need to get to the Republican State Convention in Decatur this summer before these empty suits do even more damage to our once proud Illinois GOP. It's time to say "enough is enough." It's time to restore some honest, professional leadership. If you're a Republican voter, the Illinois Republican Party belongs to YOU don't forget, not to some old circle of incompetent moneychangers. Learn how to become a state delegate: All hands on deck for the Republican State Convention in June. But you need to act quickly. Time is of the essence to become a delegate with the power to vote for positive change. Doug Ibendahl is a Chicago Attorney and a former General Counsel of the Illinois Republican Party. He is Co-Founder of Republican Young Professionals (RYP).)

ILLINOIS REVIEW
-- Wright had it better than I - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/03/wright-had-it-b.html
(THE COMMENTARY: Please excuse me if I take some time over the next few weeks to spew hatred and damn America on Illinois Review. After all, I'm entitled. I've been cheated. I'm not a millionaire. I'm not famous. I'm not highly educated. I am not a man. Even Dr. Jeremiah Wright had it better than I did. This week, Barack Obama told the world we needed to excuse the horrific anger and animosity spewing out of his "uncle's" mouth. It's understandable, he said. . .after all, Wright's the product of living through America's pre-60s black bigotry. Oh really? Just a brief perusal of the Illinois General Assembly's website, and we find a very different scenario, something George Dienhart tapped into yesterday. Indeed, on March 11, 2008, just as the Wright controversy broke nationally, our Illinois House agreed to a resolution extolling Wright's retirement from Trinity United Church of Christ. The resolution was sponsored by State Rep. Monique Davis of Chicago, who represents that district to the IL House, and who is reported to be regularly seen at Trinity. Read the resolution HERE -- you'll learn a little more about the so-called hard life Dr. Wright has endured. But the real eye opener is another resolution Rep. Davis sponsored in 2007, to honor Wright's 35 years at Trinity. In this resolution HERE, it says that Dr. Wright is the third generation of Wrights who graduated from college -- his grandparents first graduating from Virginia Union in 1900. For a lowly girl raised in St. Louis suburbs by Ozark-bred parents of whom neither attended nor graduated from high school, I have reason to feel cheated. Dr. Wright's family was more educated than mine was. He's privileged. I had it rougher than him. I'll bet he never heated water on a stove to take a bath nor put coal in a furnace first thing in the morning. I did. I'm angry . . .)

DAILY HERALD
-- FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PHOTO: BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: DIERSEN HEADLINE: The Daily Herald covers up Foster's serious divorce problems, again. If Foster had run as a Republican, he would have lost because the Daily Herald would have a) assured that everyone knew of his serious divorce problems and b) argued successfully that his serious divorce problems showed that his character was fatally flawed
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=158861&src=5
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: LETTER READS LIKE FOSTER WROTE IT: Wendy Morse of St. Charles praises Foster, demonizes Oberweis, and demonizes the Daily Herald for endorsing Oberweis
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=158795&src=
-- Department of Employment Security in Elgin: Jobless can expect unequal treatment - Robert Rath, Hampshire
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=158792
(THE LETTER: If you are a Caucasian and have to file for unemployment compensation at the Department of Employment Security at 30 DuPage Court in Elgin, expect to be hassled a lot while Hispanics and African-Americans are not. I am calling for an immediate government review of this office.)

DAILY SOUTHTOWN
-- 11th Congressional District: For Weller's seat, it's pizza (HARRY BOND) or cement (MARTIN OZINGA) - Kristen McQueary
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/mcqueary/854898,032308mcqueary.article
-- Eliot Spitzer of New York and Mike Smith of New Lenox: Political arena could look different without sex scandals - Tom Houlihan
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/houlihan/854899,032308houlihan.article

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
-- Demetra DeMonte appointed to replace MaryAlice Erickson as Illinois Republican Party State Central Committeeman for the 18th Congressional District - Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/Opinion/stories/27379.asp
-- Rutherford’s plans - Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/Opinion/stories/27379.asp
-- Democrat county chairmen don’t want Blagojevich meddling - Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/Opinion/stories/27379.asp
-- VERY VERY VERY SAD: Teens hard to reach with STD warning One-in-four infection rate can haunt women later in life - Dean Olsen
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/27387.asp

HERALD NEWS
-- 11th Congressional District: GOP still hunting - Susan DeMar Lafferty
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/856782,4_1_JO23_11TH_S1.article
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY VERY VERY SAD: Efforts to promote bilingualism, that is, to promote Spanish, bankrupting school districts
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/856777,4_1_JO23_ELL_S1.article

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
-- Medicaid reform must be part of budget solution - Editorial
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/03/22/opinion/130774.txt

SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN
-- Theme for this year's state fair rings true for Blagojevich - Kurt Erickson
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/03/23/opinions/guest_columns/23827502.txt

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- The Wright-Obama divide - Steve Chapman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0323chapmanmar23,1,2651579.column
-- Wright's gift to the right - Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0323pagemar23,1,2956165.column

CBS NEWS
-- Did Bill Clinton Call Obama Unpatriotic?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/22/politics/main3960032.shtml

BLOOMBERG
-- Obama Adviser Likens Bill Clinton Comments to Joseph McCarthy - Julianna Goldman
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=asPhnr541jlQ&refer=us

NEW YORK TIMES
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: People who don't abuse their bodies tend to live longer
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/us/23health.html

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
-- OUTSTANDING: Illinois Republican Party Bylaws
http://www.digitalvictorycms.com/_uploaded/887310-bylaws.pdf

ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN
-- OUTSTANDING: Illinois Federation of Republican Women Bylaws
http://www.ifrw.org/documents/Bylaws___Approved_4.28.07b.pdf

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN
-- OUTSTANDING: National Federation of Republican Women Bylaws
http://www.nfrw.org/documents/publications/bylaws.pdf

YOUNG REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FEDERATION
-- OUTSTANDING: Young Republican National Federation Bylaws
http://www.young-republican.com/YRNF_Bylaws___7_8_2005.pdf