In an effort to achieve Republican unity, top Illinois GOP leaders Tuesday endorsed the candidacy of political newcomer Steve Sauerberg as the party’s nominee to challenge incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin next year.

Sauerberg, a family physician from Western Springs, was backed by Illinois GOP Chairman Andy McKenna and Randy Pollard, who heads the Illinois Republican County Chairmen’s Association.

“A unified Republican Party can and will help to return Illinois values to Washington,” Sauerberg said in a statement that also labeled Durbin as an “ultra liberal.”

Chicago Tribune

There is no denying that.  The only people that Dick Durbin represents are the Socialist elite in Chicago.  As for the rest of the state, he is way out of touch.  Sauerberg is pretty good on the issues.  He doesn’t appear to be the usual RINO that I would normally expect from the dysfunctional Illinois GOP.  I would like to hear a little more detail regarding his quote on Social Security, however.

I  hope that he can give Durbin a good fight.  There really is no reason for that man to keep holding on to that seat.  The Chicago electorate alone is not enough to put him over.  Although, this is the same state that just reelected Rod Blagojevich, an absolute failure of a governor, probably worse than Jennifer Granholm, to another four year term of which the people are now in shock and awe at even how worse he has become.  They are so shocked that a State Senator, a fellow Democrat no less, is working on a Constitutional Amendment that would allow the citizenry to recall him.  Yes, it seems that Illinois has caught a bit of the Michigan syndrome.  It must be something in the water of the lake they share.