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"Let’s try to be realistic about this."

Sorry, but I know where you're going with this.

"Electing a Republican in Illinois these days is very, very different from trying to elect a Republican in Utah or Wyoming."

So let's elect a liberal Democrat as an "R", because that's "all we can get" in IL ? Sorry, Philo. No more settling. Combiner scum like Kirk will get us nothing but trouble. He represents everything wrong with the IL GOP, and national RINOs. Kirk makes Chuck Percy look like Jesse Helms.

"Shimkus and Roskam have concluded that Mark Kirk is the best chance to take the seat for the Republican Party."

I conclude they're wrong. By the way, what will they do when Kirk switches to the Democrat party officially when he's elected ? How'd that work out for Rick Santorum endorsing Arlen Specter as "the best hope for the PA GOP" ?

"I’m not happy about it either. But at this point, we really have to try to be a “big tent” party."

Sorry, but the only thing you find under a big tent is a circus. A party that stands for everything stands for nothing.

"I will support anyone who gets the Republican nomination, unless his last name is Blagojevich. And nobody named Blagojevich is going to win the nomination anyway."

The diff between Mark Kirk and Milorad Blagojevich is that Blago doesn't try to insult our intelligence by claiming to be a Republican. He's got a helluva lot more intellectual integrity than Mark Kirk.

"I hope you understand and accept this in the spirit with which it’s intended. Let’s beat the Democrats first."

Exactly. We start by keeping liberal Democrats from hijacking our party nomination by defeating Mark Kirk and all other Combiner scum in the primary.

"We can worry about ideological purity later."

Nope, we nominate principled Conservatives now, pledged to shrinking government, standing up to Zero, and standing up to corruption (the Combine). No more liberal RINOs standing opposed to everything we hold to be right and true. No more Mark Kirks.

Interestingly enough, the Daley mafia that has controlled Chicago since the 50s got their start thanks to GOP voters with the "anyone with an R next to their name is acceptable" mentality. Back in 1935, David Shanahan, a Republican state rep in a safe GOP district suddenly died, and old man Daley (father of the current Mayor), quickly filed as a "Republican" for the special election before the local GOP could find someone. Daley had been a Democrat city official, lifelong Democrat voter and Democrat precinct captain at that time. When election day rolled around, "Republican" Richard J. Daley was duly elected over the previously slated token Democrat "opposition" to David Shanahan. After taking his seat in the Illinois General Assembly, Daley immediately moved to caucus with the Democrats and made his switch back to the RAT party official in 1938. And thus began the Daley takeover of Chicago.

Quite ironic, that the very source of all Democrat corruption in Illinois got their start in elected office thanks to broken glass Republicans. If GOP voters in that district had simply refused to vote "Republican" for that office, the Daley clan would never gotten power.

And Kirk is definitely a big time combiner, he's not one of those "clean" RINOs who is against the combine like Ron Gidwitz. Kirk was bankrolled by Tony Rezko, and was caught on tape during this year's special election telling big time Chicago machine crook John Fritchey that he could "either endorse him or condemn him, whatever helps the most" when Fritchey was running in the RAT primary for Emanuel's vacant seat.