The race for Obama's Senate seat looks like a Massachusetts-type perfect storm

Washington Examiner ^ | 02/05/2010 | Michael Barone

[stephenjohnbanker]

Obama has ratholed 500 billion to make sure every jailed felon has a voice in all up coming elections. Every illegal immigrant too.

[GailA]

Well they don’t have the right to vote in TN unless they have had those rights restored through the court system. This seems to be a common Memphis Ford Machine practice...they bus the folks to the polls..small kids even vote here.

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

whose last successful Republican Senate candidate in Illinois, Charles Percy, had a similar profile

Not true. They completely forgot about Peter Fitzgerald, a conservative Republican who held the seat right before Obama. That's some pretty sloppy fact checking, not to mention bad short term memory.

[PhilCollins]

I agree that Rep. Kirk isn’t moderate. He’s more liberal than many Democrats. I know because he’s my congressman. His latest rating from Planned Parenthood is 100%; his latest rating from Gun Owners of America is 0%. He says that he opposes all congressional earmarks, but he ensured that the federal government spent money, in our district, for HUD, Headstart, trains, and local police departments. Therefore, he’s a liar and a hypocrite. In May 2007, when 11 republican congressman went to the White House and told then-President Bush that they opposed the Iraq surge, Kirk was the group’s leader.

[BillyBoy]

HEADLINE: Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL) announces he is a definite “No” vote on Obamacare because he will not support federal funding for abortion.

http://politifi.com/news/Lipinski-flips-to-No-on-Obamacare-262658.html

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No way! The Mark Kirk fan club have explained to us that Congressmen who represent suburban districts that gave Obama over 60% of the vote “have to” vote in favor of abortion-on-demand and get 100% ratings from NARAL to be “electable”.

Anything less than that and the “moderate suburban women” will come out in droves to defeat them (moderate suburban women LOVE partial birth abortion and would be horrified if it was banned, dontsa know)

Lipinski’s district gave Obama an even BIGGER share of the vote than Kirk's district! Therefore, in order to please his constiuents, Lipinski MUST vote for abortion on demand, taxpayer funded embryonic stem cell research, gay marriage, transgendered American “rights”, the ERA amendment, banning school prayer, etc., to “win” in a district like that. This is how Kirk managed to “win” in an pro-Obama district after all.

Clearly, since he not only votes against taxpayer funding of abortion, but routinely votes pro-life, Congressman Lipinski will now be defeated by an Obama-clone Democrat for alienating the moderate suburban voters by kowtowing to the “extreme right wing of the Republican Party”.

If not, then maybe, just maybe, Congerssmen don't “have to” support abortion on demand to “win” in regions that gave Obama 60% of the vote.

But Mark Kirk's fan club would NEVER lie to us about Kirk's true intentions, would they?