Indecisive Candidates Hurting GOP

Today's Chicago Tribune highlights the latest frustration for Republican leadership: good candidates stringing the party along. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert asked Former IL Governor Jim Edgar to make a decision soon on a possible run to return to the governor's seat. Hastert is quite right in saying, "He ought to just make a decision because if he doesn't, he holds up all of the other caniddates and the money."

The Republican primary already has several candidates, including dairy chain owner Jim Oberweis, IL State Senator Steve Rauschenberger, and State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka. Hastert has supported all of them, in one race or another, in the past.

Read more here.