-By Warner Todd Huston
On WBEZ radio the Chairman of the Illinois GOP made an odd statement. He told the radio station that he didn’t think the Illinois GOP was going to make a big deal out of the upcoming verdict in troubled Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich’s trial.
Not make a big deal of it? Why in the name of all things political would the leader of a Party throw away one of the best things that could happen to his party: the conviction of the other party’s head man?
When asked about the Blago verdict, Brady said, “You know, we could make a lot of political hay out of it. I don’t think we will, because [I’ll] just [be] relieved it’s over.”
We won’t make any political hay out of it?
Unbelievable.
Now I am not advocating that the Illinois GOP go hog wild over the verdict whatever it might be. But to completely layoff the thing as a political issue? That makes no sense at all.
Worse, if the party does end up saying anything at all about the verdict — especially if the verdict is the the worst case — hasn’t Brady just opened himself up for charges of hypocrisy?
I think it was ill-advised for Party chief Pat Brady to say that the party would make no “hay” over the Blago verdict. It was a senseless thing to say.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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