The mournful cry of the moonbat loon shilling for a Benedict Arnold Socialist traitor in the GOP. Get lost.
Posted on 10/18/2010 3:50:11 PM PDT by Maelstorm
POLITICO just dropped a bombshell with a story Sunday evening about a leaked email written by Mark Kirk to his campaign manager Eric Elk on November 3, 2009. Full story: Kirk feared attack from right.
POLITICO says the email came from a Democratic operative who in turn claims to have received it from “someone close to Kirk’s inner circle.” Could a certain “Svengali figure” be involved somehow? We just don’t know.
In any case, the email and its instructions reflect some panic on Kirk’s part going into the campaign season for the February Primary. Kirk’s email was sent just a few days after liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of a special election for a U.S. Congressional seat in upstate New York. Scozzafava suspended her campaign because she was running so far behind the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman.
Kirk wrote on November 3rd, “The moderate brand has to be rebuilt after Scozzafava implosion.”
Kirk goes on to give his campaign manager several marching orders – most of which in essence relate to keeping gullible conservatives within the Kirk campaign fold.
The POLITICO story points out that the day following the email is when Kirk’s campaign reached out to Sarah Palin seeking some kind of an endorsement.
The good news is Palin is a smart woman and obviously saw right through the scam. She ignored Kirk’s appeals. The bad news is many conservatives in Illinois took the bait hook line and sinker.
So are you one of the “conservatives” who has been helping Kirk, or at least keeping quiet about him? Think you’re special because Kirk or one of his operatives reached out to you? Well guess what, you’re not. Kirk set out the strategy on November 3rd where the campaign would “communicate with conservative elites” and convince them to sell-out their souls. Many of course have – but not here at RepublicanNewsWatch.com. We still proudly highlight Mark Kirk’s extremely liberal voting record on our front page.
After reading all the excerpts POLITICO provides from Kirk’s memo, it’s not clear which is the most offensive – the cynical way Kirk intends to bamboozle conservatives, or his poor grammar.
Decide for yourself, but I still say screw Mark Kirk. The guy isn’t a Republican to begin with and we can’t possibly build a real GOP around someone so dishonest. And make no mistake, if Kirk becomes a U.S. Senator he becomes the de facto head of the Illinois Republican Party – to an even greater degree than he and his people already are.
Conservatives and Tea Partiers should also wake up and realize that a Senator Kirk would be the liberal fly in the ointment, the liberal in the GOP senate caucus who will hinder the new agenda incoming conservatives will surely try to advance.
Finally, if your goal is to stick it to President Obama, electing Mark Kirk gets you nowhere. Not only is Kirk mostly in tune with Obama on the big issues, but consider how the GOP winning both the House and Senate can be expected to assist Obama with reelection in 2012. He’ll now have a foil to campaign against for two years.
Absent something big and unforeseen happening in the next few weeks, Republicans seem nearly assured of winning back control of the U.S. House. If we get back the U.S. Senate too, that’s great – but I do think there’s a downside. And in any case, if Republicans do get a majority in the Senate, it needs to be thanks to principled Republicans who stand for something Republican. Obviously that excludes Mark Kirk.
Doug Ibendahl is a Chicago Attorney and a former General Counsel of the Illinois Republican Party.
Is Blago still in office ? Fact is, crooked Democrats HARM the Democrats. Alexi will be far more harmful to the national Democrats than Kirk. If the Machine in IL absolutely wanted Alexi or the Dem nominee to win, they’d have yanked his butt off the ballot faster than you can say Robert Torricelli. This race is a TOTAL joke, and the fact that supposedly intelligent people can’t see that is just plain sad. Maybe you should leave Illinois, because it has wasted away your last shreds of being able to see this classic set-up.
Would it soothe your bruised ego when Kirk votes for Durbin instead of Alexi ? How ‘bout we win ALL the other contested races which can push us over 51 and leave Kirk, abortion-lover, illegals-supporter, closet pervert and known fraud, in the dust ? Brady will appoint Roskam when Alexi goes to prison, and voila, Illinois GETS a Senator it can respect.
Don’t call me your pal. I’m no pal of pro-obama trolls sowing confusion and decent here. Your guy is going down because we won’t have Marxism ruling over this land EVER.
How about you move back planet Earth. Enjoy Majority Leader Durbin, and that will be your doing.
As a resident, I have to vote my conscience, AND live with the consequences. Thanks.
You’re shilling for Zero’s DIABLO buddy Mark Kirk, PAL. Your thumping your chest about opposing the left-wing agenda rings ludicrously hollow.
I’m sure you’ll be here to apologize when I’m proven right about this DIABLO Socialist thug, Kirk... just like all the bots when they told us how important it was to elect Ah-nold, that other Socialist fiasco on the left coast whom I stridently warned people over and was proven 100% right about... hmm ?
Unfortunately, if that Socialist scum Kirk is elected and is the 51st or 50th Senator, you’ll make the rest of the country live with the consequences of a naive vote because you think the ringer is worse than the Trojan Horse. Don’t say you weren’t warned. It’s just a shame you aren’t willing to have short-term pain for long-term gain, since with Kirk, it will be long-term misery from what he will do to us. He’s a complete sociopath, and not a single word that comes out of his mouth can be believed without independent verification. If he said the sky was blue, I’d double check to make sure.
Winning the House is absolutely vital. It is imperative that as much conservative input as possible goes into controlling the purse strings of the nation, and I mean right now.
Mark Kirk will not be getting my vote. I will vote libertarian. I would vote for him if he would at least move to the center like Guiliani did when he ran for President. Instead, I recently saw an ad touting him as “Mr. Independent” because he supported using are tax dollars to fund stem cell research and because he supported outlawing candy cigarettes. Sorry, but I could care less if we lose a vote in the Senate.
He’s a complete sociopath, and not a single word that comes out of his mouth can be believed without independent verification. If he said the sky was blue, I’d double check to make sure.
I think you're describing YOUR PAL the radical community agitator obama.
The mournful cry of the moonbat loon shilling for a Benedict Arnold Socialist traitor in the GOP. Get lost.
Just as I figured! Your dirty filthy mouth gives you away, you leftist shameful troll. Be gone with you because your pal obama IS GOING TO LOSE. SCHADENFREUDE.
Damn right, pal ! We're going to defeat Mark Kirk, Zero's good Combiner buddy and fellow Socialist.
Last week I thought I read that true conservatives were supposed to support Randall C. Stufflebeam. Of course, he’s a write-in candidate, and I know nothing about him.
But he seems to be polling about as good as Labno.
"Fiscal Conservative" Mark Kirk's REAL record:
- Kirk voted with Taxpayers for Common Sense 33% of the time
- Kirk voted with The Club for Growth 19% of the time (9 / 48 votes)
- Kirk voted with Citizens for Tax Justice 17% of the time
- Kirk voted NO to H.J. Res. 3-Releasing Funds for Economic Stabilization Act (this act was sponsored by Republicans after the first 300 billion dollars went unaccounted for to block the remaining funds from being released without oversight)
- Kirk voted YES on Cap-n-Trade, the BIGGEST tax increase in U.S. history ( the ONLY Republican member of the Illinois congressional delegation that voted yes!) (HR 2454)
- Kirk voted YES on Democrat Charlie Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax (H.R. 1586)
- Kirk voted YES on Overseas Military Facilities Abortion funding (H.R.708)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R.2 - the Democrat's SCHIP Program-basically an expansion of welfare (includes $1 tax on cigarettes to "fund" the program)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R. 3997-First Economic Bailout Package (this is the one that failed the first time through), then voted YES on HR-1424:Second Economic Bailout Package (this one was bigger than the first!)
- Kirk SUPPORTED HR 2, Nancy Pelosi's minimum wage hike that exempted businesses in her own district (Kirk excuse is that he didn't read the bill)
- Mark Kirk voted to approve nearly $200 million for the Air Force to purchase three luxury aircraft for ferrying top government office and Members of Congress.
- Mark Kirk claims that he opposes all congressional earmarks, yet sponsored $74,766,000 worth of earmarks from 2008-2010, including $4,725,000 worth of SOLE earmarks requests for himself. See all of "fiscal conservative" Mark Kirk's earmarks here:
www.legistorm.com/earmarks/details/member/320/Rep_Mark_Kirk/page/1/sort/amount/type/desc.html
- Mark Kirk was ONE of only two Republicans NOT to co-sponsor auditing the Federal Reserve.
- Mark Kirk voted to approve a $140,000 earmark for ACORN's New York office.
- Mark Kirk OPPOSED Republican Senator Jim Bunning's (R-KY) stand to use existing Stimlus funds for the extension of unemployment benefits, and supported the Democrat legislation to pay for it using a new $10 billion expansion to budget deficit.
Vote for "fiscal conservative" Mark Kirk, he'll do for Illinois what "fiscal conservative" Ahnuld Schwarzkennedy did for California.
Stufflebeam issued a press release a few weeks ago saying he is going to waste money on another write-in campaign, and is throwing his support behind the one decent candidate who made it on the ballot.
Typo in my last post. Meant to say Stufflebeam is NOT running a write-in campaign this time.
That’s a really ugly resume.
Who are his backers in the GOP?
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