Tea Party Candidate Mike Labno for Illinois Senate. He's running against 3 Liberals. He's one Man against the Machine.
Well, you may be right - I think I know what Mark Kirk is, and what he is NOT. His record on fiscal issues is pretty good, he may as well be Barney Frank when it comes to social issues. But he’s not Alexi, and he does have an R behind his name (the first letter in RINO). So like many I will hold my nose and vote for him, because even the longest journey begins with a single step, and taking “the Obama seat” from the Democrat party will weaken them in IL and Kirk is at least no worse than Alexi.
Do I wish Jack Ryan had kept it zipped? Yeah. I wish we had a better candidate now, too.
Would he vote with his fellow Republicans to filibuster the Democrats radical agenda, or would he side with the Democrats right away, turning on Republicans right out of the gate?
-PJ
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Operation RINO Kill (politically speaking, of course) is a necessary prerequisite to Our Republic's restoration, pure and simple.
DEFEAT MARK KIRK ! *PING*
Half a loaf or none? Conservatives trying to starve themselves again. I don’t like Mike Kirk any better than most conservatives but tell me when Illinois is ready to elect a conservative in a statewide race. Better yet, let me know when Chicago slides into the lake.
Why are we still fighting the primary? Kirk is not the solid conservative we all wish for, but one isn’t likely to be elected in Illinois. His 57% rating from the American Conservative Union means we can count on him more than half the time to vote the right way. Giannolouis has said he will begin a “progressive Senate caucus” if he wins this Senate seat. I daresay that means we’ll be able to count on his vote for conservative causes around 0% of the time. Better to take half a plate of what you want than a full plate of steaming cow pies.
And get real, Labno has no chance. When was the last time a Libertarian candidate won anything? The time for this argument about Kirk was earlier this year. Why give up the 51st seat for Senate control as if his opponent would somehow be so much better for the conservative cause?
I loathe Kirk as much as much as anyone else. That being said anyone working against him at this point is a Dem plant. Yes, I mean you.
You're going to wait a long time to find a candidate who's never told a lie. Kirk did serve and did so honorably. For me I'll credit his military service to his bad boy ledger for having lied about some of the details of that service. It's a shame he felt the need to exaggerate in that way, but in the end he apologized. Can't we allow for repentence?
It's certainly better than Giannoulis claiming he had nothing to do with making loans to mob figures when he was a chief loan officer at that bank, then explaining it all away by saying he didn't know "the full extent of their criminal activities" as if he knew some. Then he went on to lie about what years he even worked for the family bank and also appears to have dodged taxes. Yes, I know you're not advocating for Giannoulis, but the point I'm making is Kirk is guilty of some white lying we all have been guilty of as opposed to lying about frankly being an accesory to criminal mob activity. I think we should be much more troubled by a guy willing to wink at criminal activity just to get some business for his family bank than a guy who let his ego get the best of him. The latter indicates a much deeper degree of character dysfunction to my way of thinking.
Kirk won the Republican primary fair and square. It’s done. We are pissed that tea partyers are not getting the full party supporting them once they win primaries. I don’t want to do the same when a RINO wins the primary, especially when said RINO could be the difference between the Republicans taking over the Senate or not.
That being said, Kirk knows that tea partyers will keep their eyes on him, and they have shown they have no problem defeating a sitting senator during a primary. For the first time RINOs will have to protect their right flank.
Could you imagine if the Senate stays in Democrat hands the way the media will portray election day? Obama the come back kid!
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.
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.
This is all pointless. The Dem will win because this is the most fraudulent election in living memory, especially in Chicago.