[fieldmarshaldj]

I’d figure Kirk wouldn’t vote for Hagel because he wasn’t a full on infanticide fetishest.

[BlackElk]

Hagel is also conventionally married to one woman which may explain it.

[BlackElk]

Hagel is also conventionally married to one woman which may explain it.

[BillyBoy]

My theory is this: Kirk's "statewide" campaign for the U.S. Senate treated the entire state as if it were IL-10. According to Kirk, the "suburbs" in Chicago consist only of the 10% which happen to fall in his Congressional district. Anyone else doesn't exist and was ignored accordingly (yet the election results show Kirk "won" those areas of Crook County by bigger margins than Bill Brady did)

He continues to legislate likewise. If you are NOT a resident of north shore (and the vast majority of Illinois citizens aren't), good luck trying to get Kirk to pay attention to an issue important to your community. He spends all his time talking about Lake Michigan pollution, navy training, and awards for kids from ivy-league WASP prep schools.

Even that goon Dick Durbin goes through the motions of visiting constituents across Illinois and pretends to care about "the entire state" more than Kirk does.

IL-10 has virtually all of the Illinois' Jewish population and they represent a major force in Kirk's old district. Voting to confirm an "anti-semitic" candidate would have grave repercussions in IL-10, though not so much in the rest of Illinois.

In short, Kirk has "concerns" about Hagel because he thinks Jewish voters would retaliate against him.