Is Bobby Eberle's long climb through the ranks of the Texas Republican Party over?

Those of you who have been here awhile know what Bobby and I stand for, who we are, and what our values are by what you see on this website and by the way we conduct ourselves.

This story involves the personal life of a former associate of Talon News and further discussion would be inappropriate. ...Terri Hillhouse, GOPUSA Forum Administrator, upon hearing the news of Jeff Gannon's porn websites.

But, what are Bobby and Terri's values?  We're supposed to determine that by what we see on their website.

Long attracted to power politics Texas style was a young Houston based Republican activist who set aside his love of flying, years of study in aerospace engineering and a career including work on the space shuttle program for a “calling” as he terms it, to “politics and public service.” Bobby Eberle, a pilot who holds a mechanical engineering Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas married Kathleen Hummel, who along with Eberle was a class of ’86 graduate from their hometown Victoria High School in 1990, the summer after they both graduated from Texas A&M. Two members of the wedding party, Charlie and Melissa Weldon as well as Kathleen and Bobby, would be future directors and officers of GOPUSA, Eberle’s Republican activist and news website, while the rest of the board would be Bobby’s friends from the Texas Young Republicans along with Kerri Houston, a Dallas based conservative activist Bobby met while both were on the campaign trail for then Texas Governor George W. Bush for the 2000 election. Eberle frequently refers to witnessing the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 while attending Kerri Houston’s American Conservative Union Policy “Boot Camp” in Washington.

Both Bobby Eberle and JD Guckert are products of the versatile and effective Republican political-operative training machine, but Bobby Eberle’s passage through the ranks was long term and illustrious (by Republican standards) and if not for the Guckert glitch would have positioned him for a prestigious and lucrative political career. Information about Bobby’s previously faultless rise through the ranks of the Republican Party has been studiously scrubbed from the internet in the wake of his humiliation over Guckert, but here we have a bio (handily saved by archive.org) off the oddball Pro Wrestling Republican Coalition site run by Bobby’s New Jersey GOPUSA editor Michael Illions, AKA A. J. Sparxx:

Bobby's activities within the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) include serving as a delegate to the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Bobby also served as a delegate to the Senate District 13 Convention in 1996, 1998, and 2000, and as a delegate to the Republican Party of Texas State Convention in 1996, 1998, and 2000. Bobby served on the Senate District 13 Rules Committee in 1998 and 2000. At the 1998 Republican Party of Texas State Convention, he was Senate District 13's representative on the State Nominations Committee. In 2000, Bobby served on the Republican Party of Texas 's Temporary and Permanent Rules Committees at the State Convention, and he served as the Program Chairman for the 2000 Republican Party of Texas State Convention. Bobby also served on the Republican Party of Texas Education and Training Committee from 1998-2000. In 1999, Bobby was recognized with a unanimously approved resolution of commendation by the Republican Party of Texas for service and dedication to the Republican cause. [In 2000, Eberle was named Republican Party of Texas Volunteer of the Year from Senate District 13…ed.]

Bobby has devoted considerable time and energy to the Republican effort. He served as President of the Houston Young Republicans, the Director of Club Development of the Texas Young Republican Federation, and as a three-term State Chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation. On the national level, Bobby served as Chairman of the State Chairmen's Association. Most recently, Bobby served as Vice Chairman at Large of the Young Republican National Federation, Inc.

All of which makes this post-Guckert-debacle statement, reported February 18, 2005 in the Houston Chronicle, "I'm not going to comment because I don't know him, and nobody here does,” by Sherry Sylvester, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Texas a possibly telling comment on Bobby’s political future. Bobby Eberle is – or was – on the right track to power in the national Republican Party. With his impressively high-level (Eberle is one of the few people to have ever interviewed Karl Rove), devotedly cultivated contacts in the Bush administration and deep roots to the most powerful state Republican organization on the planet, the Republican Party of Texas, one must wonder if Bobby interpreted Sylvester’s statement as the verdict it likely was.