* It kinda makes me choke to say it, but DeVore is right about this…

You wanna win as a Republican in the suburbs? You gotta do what you gotta do. Plain and simple.

* And yet, when it comes to prominent Republican women accepting campaign contributions from the IEA - which has backed Republicans for decades here - he calls them RINOs…

There’s a word for this sort of double standard.

…Adding… Aaron Del Mar interrupted a massive whine-fest about the ILGOP to speak some hard truths about Republican candidates today…

Well, here’s the thing too, Colin, and I get to your party thing, and I’m on the State Central Committee, and I see a lot of dysfunction and infighting, more time spent on that than fighting to get our people through.

But also, I think you need to go back more granular than that, and talk about personal accountability from each of the candidates. Right? Each of the candidates have to be able to put their own money in. You can’t depend on any party to be able to do that, especially not the Republican Party. So you have to put your own money into it. You have to go to your friends, your family and fundraise.

You have to knock on the doors yourself. You have to split up your team and do it. You have to have the fundamentals of getting the right campaign, using your money wisely.

That is a bigger issue, because if we can do that individually, that will lift all of our ships.

And a lot of these candidates that I’m watching, I wasn’t even looking at some of the races on the numbers. I’m like, dude, they’re not doing anything. They’re gonna lose. Like nobody knows who they are. They didn’t even get lawn signs, or they didn’t want to fundraise. They didn’t want to do any of the pieces that it takes.

So we need to start getting candidates that will take personal accountability for their campaigns instead of trying to lean on a party that’s not going to do it for them.

Winners do the work.