53 Comments - Anonymous - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:00 pm: Her Wednesday roundup of Rauner’s blow out loss should be one to watch.. - Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:03 pm: Ives and Proft, with Uihlein cash, being sprinkled in legislative races here and there, and probably towards some state central committeemen… Ives and Proft want the abandoned brand. Who is gonna stop them? - Roman - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:05 pm: She’ll be the midday host on Proft’s radio station, AM 560 or whatever it is. You know, the station for listeners who think Rush Limbaugh and the other hosts on WLS are too liberal. - NIU Grad - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:05 pm: I don’t know if this is common, but just seeing an advisory saying “I’m available for interviews during the entirety of these days. My schedule is TOTALLY clear” does not send a confident message. If she is really angling to be a party leader, she should be campaigning for her candidates all the way up to the last minute and putting the focus on them. Will failed down-ballot candidates be thankful for an “I told you so” media tour? As if her pro-Trump, anti-everyone social issues campaign would have won the majority of Illinois voters in the general… - Arsenal - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:06 pm: Even the guy running coordination between the Pritzker and Casten campaigns won’t be as happy as Jeanne Ives if they both win. - illini - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:07 pm: It would appear she is still trying to be relevant. I guess her 15 minutes of fame is not over yet. Or she is trying desperately to extend it. - Arsenal - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:08 pm: ==I guess her 15 minutes of fame is not over yet.== Nope. If the results go the way most of us expect, she’ll get plenty of media hits. - JS Mill - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:11 pm: I do not think she will be particularly relevant long once Rauner is done. If she were to run against a genuine Republican like Dillard she would lose soundly. - DarkHorse - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:11 pm: Anyone who challenges an incumbent in a primary, gets massively outspent, and still gets 48.5% - that person is running again for that same office if the incumbent loses. Assuming Raoul wins for AG, it’s an Ives-Harold primary for governor in 2022. - James the Intolerant - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:12 pm: Proft and Amy Jacobson on AM560, quite a pair. - Iggy - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:12 pm: When the Rauner folks get sent packing the party will land in the hands of Ives and Proft. They will turn the ILGOP into bastion for Trumpism. The conservative base will be overjoyed. but their first election cycle (2020) will be occurring at the peak of anti trumpism in Illinois. Trump gets swept out of office, along with more gop candidates, and in that wake Ives goes tumbling down, allowing a better candidate to emerge and run against JB in 2022. Ives will burn out, her biggest mistake was striking so early, shes a flash in the pan and she is not fit to be at the top of the ticket for the ILGOP. - NIU Grad - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:14 pm: I’m with Iggy on this one. Ives and Proft will take over as defacto leaders and ignite a consistent salvo of infighting. The state GOP will slip back into irrelevancy ahead of being gerrymandered off of the board. - 47th Ward - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:17 pm: ===Ives can discuss a number of issues, including her election predictions, election results, and next steps for the ILGOP=== She’ll also reveal her picks for the Northwestern-Notre Dame and Bears-Bills games and handicap the Breeders Cup, followed by a rare, live horoscope reading and use her spiritual medium power to relay your personal messages to deceased friends and family in the great beyond. Space is limited so call now. - Plainfielder - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:17 pm: Maybe Congress in 2020 if Casten wins? - AlfondoGonz - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:20 pm: At the rate this country is going? POTUS - Cheryl44 - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:22 pm: Our very own Sarah Palin - GOPgal - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:23 pm: Ives can discuss a number of issues but is especially strong on the threat posed by transgenders showing up at our doors. - Pundent - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:29 pm: To paraphrase, other than Tuesday between the hours of 11:00 - 5:00 when Ives will be figuring out how to stay relevant in the future, her schedule is wide open. - BC - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:35 pm: Is there any chance she’ll make friends with Todd Ricketts? No snark. That might be an interesting dynamic to watch. He’s kind of acting as a bridge between Trump and the establishment GOP funders right now nationally. The same sort of bridge is needed for the Illinois GOP. If nothing else, she could teach him a lesson in how to reach conservative voters. Running “vote Republican” ads on MSNBC and during reruns of “Blackish,” as his Super PAC is currently doing, probably won’t get the job done. - Retired Educator - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:36 pm: Who cares? Does her opinion have any merit at all? I fail to see her relevance. - Turner - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:38 pm: This is why she is Mike Madigan’s favorite Republican, she makes Illinois Republican’s look like narrow minded intolerant blowhards. The Republican party needs some grown ups to step forward and shut downs the clown show of Ives and her handler Proft. A lot of her vote was just anti-Rauner. The real question is how much of her vote was pro-Jeanne. After this election (assuming the worst), will Republican’s want to win or go down with Colonel Kurtz. I sure hope a Karen McConnaughay steps up and makes my party sane again. - Cornfield Cowboy - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:38 pm: Snack, naptime, and repeat? - Arsenal - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:40 pm: ==Trump gets swept out of office== Trump will probably win re-election. But he’ll probably get killed in IL again. - 19th Ward guy - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:40 pm: Yeah. Senator O’Malley did the same thing. Losing somehow=winning. Proft has raised and spent $56 million and never flipped a seat. Let that sink in Ms Ives. - Al - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:47 pm: Tuesday she will be announcing she has been selected by the Florida Orange Juice Council as their National spokesperson. - wordslinger - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:53 pm: –What’s Jeanne Ives’ next step?– First out of the box to grab the leadership banner of the GOP, and dare anyone to try to take it from her. Why wouldn’t she? Who wouldn’t, after receiving 48.6% of the primary vote against an incumbent? Illinois is going through some party realignments that much of the rest of the nation have already experienced. Watch the votes from the Collar Counties (Dems up/GOP down) and Southern Illinois votes GOP up/Dems down) for confirmation. Guess where more voters live? - ste_wit a v_en - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 12:56 pm: Rauner wins: double down on previous ideas, Republicans get killed in 2020. Rauner loses: double down on previous ideas, Republicans get killed in 2020. Classic Ives/Proft strategy. - Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:00 pm: This could be the start of a four year campaign for governor. Get the press following you, constantly criticize the incumbent over absolutely everything while playing coy as to your actual agenda. If she really wants to be governor, that is her best chance. - Anonymous - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:10 pm: The first people to dump Ives and McCann after the election fall-out will be the folks that encouraged them. - Anonymous - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:14 pm: >>The first people to dump Ives and McCann after the election fall-out will be the folks that encouraged them. - Blue Dog Dem - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:19 pm: She will get many ‘I told you’ moments in the next four years. JB wont get the tax revenue he needs to fufill the promises he made. And with Mendozas truth in transparency regarding bill paying, JB must stay current on vendor backlogs. - TominChicago - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:26 pm: Al. I laughed out loud at your post. Great reference. - Natty_B - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:37 pm: Probably dreaming about being on Fox News “The Five” but in reality her ceiling is guest host on Joe Walsh show. - Political Animal - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:41 pm: That’s some motivated reasoning right there OW. Blaming it on his new staff dramatically overstated how much staff decisions have an effect on public opinion. They weren’t even around to do much. His polling tanked because he lost the budget fight. The two years of delay produced no results and Republicans broke ranks to hand him a legacy defining defeat. The public cares much more about that than they do internal power struggles. - Political Animal - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:41 pm: Oh, and let’s not forget that crushing defeat was engineered by Z and his pet. - Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:44 pm: ===The public cares much more about that than they do internal power struggles.=== Tell that to Diana Rauner, LOL No, it’s measured, been discussed here, even cataloged with a calendar… BTIA(tm)… far worse, and lasted in a much shorter time. - Molly Maguire - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:48 pm: Ives and Proft are a dream team from a Dem perspective. Trumpism can’t win Illinois, and Trumpism without Trump is nowheresville. - Chris P. Bacon - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 1:48 pm: I’ve got an elderly, grouchy uncle that “can discuss a number of issues.” The real question is do you want to be part of that discussion. The answer would be no, no you don’t want to be part of that discussion. - Soccermom - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 2:08 pm: GOPgal — I know you’re making a joke, but I had all kinds of crazy characters showing up at my door and making demands on Wednesday night… - Soccermom - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 2:11 pm: And just to be clear, I was making fun of Ives’ ludicrous fears of the “other”. - Annonin' - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 2:17 pm: Guessin’ on 11-7 commando Ives will be available 24-7 and will pick up your on line Walmart orders on the way over. Ask Perry Fitzgerald about how to get out of demand - Northsider - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 2:23 pm: She’ll sink back into the obscurity from which she slithered. 14:50, 14:51, 14:52… - Arsenal - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 2:57 pm: ==Blaming it on his new staff dramatically overstated how much staff decisions have an effect on public opinion.== Yes. But the problem was it was a big signal to reporters and statehouse insiders (who then went and talked to reporters) that all was not well in Rauner-land. - Arthur Andersen - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 3:14 pm: Perhaps she will relocate to Russia in search of more kindred spirits? - Flat Bed Ford - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 3:54 pm: With Proft and Ives has the perceived head of the Republican party it is doomed. - no comprendo - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 4:01 pm: Next step? Join Rep. Tom Morrison’s letter asking for leniency for convicted child abuser Tom Chantry? - Right Field - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 4:10 pm: Wheaton mayoral candidate vs. Evelyn Sanguinetti - Ike - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 4:27 pm: Ives will be like illinois’s Rick Santorum. I.e., someone who believed that they built a political base but will be comletely forgotten by GOP voters next election season. - Wheatonite - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 4:29 pm: ==Wheaton mayoral candidate vs. Evelyn Sanguinetti == More likely Congressional Candidate in the 6th Congressional District against Evelyn Sanguinetti and Peter Breen. Who will OW support? - don the legend - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 4:36 pm: God forbid Ives ever needs a blood transfusion. Her list of acceptable donors might make it very difficult. - Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 4:36 pm: - Wheatonite - I don’t live in the 6th - Turner - Friday, Nov 2, 18 @ 4:47 pm: ==I don’t live in the 6th== Nor Jason Plummer’s district - Jerry - Monday, Nov 5, 18 @ 10:54 am: What’s Ives’s next step? Obscurity, of course. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.