Second, it might just be that Illinois Republicans, like New York Republicans, aren't as conservative (on the whole) as Republicans in other states. While I'm certainly not happy with Kirk---a marginal vote on important issues at best---he almost certainly would have been a vote for a conservative judge of we get a president who can appoint one. Otherwise, you can cry in your soup or elect him and attempt to pressure him every minute into doing what the voters really want---but is that message clear in IL? I think not.
Bottom line: sometimes your options are limited. Is he better than Burris (now) or whomever the Dems run against him later? Without question.
Kirk is just another RINO - he is not a true conservative and is in fact quite liberal on social issues. He never returned any correspondence when asking for his position on abortion. He was probably trying to fly under the radar on this one.
Voted for cap and trade.
When will the Illinois GOP put up a decent candidate?
Although a RINO i truly hope this guy wins the seat in IL. The libs went crazy when Teddys seat went GOP imagine what they will do if they lose Obamas
The size of his victory will only embolden Kirk to become another Lincoln Chafee.
It would be best if this scumbag Kirk loses in the general election, and I hope a conservative runs as an independent to help that happen. Personally, I’d rather be stabbed in the face than stabbed in the back. Sure, decent people would have to wait 6 years to correct the situation, but that would allow time to find a conservative candidate, or at least a genuine Republican. Kirk is no Republican. he just ran on the GOP ticket and the corrupt party machinery helped him out.
I knew Illinois was a toilet, but whew...! It’s worse than I imagined.
I read somewhere that IL has the ‘sore loser law’ that prevents someone who ran in the primary and lost to run again under a different party. Is that right?