Posted on 09/24/2009 8:29:28 AM PDT by Daniel T. Zanoza
It's time for the Illinois GOP to request that Mark Kirk bow out of the U.S. Senate race. U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk's bid to obtain the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Roland Burris in 2010 has, to put it mildly, got off to a rocky start. The 10th District Republican has come under fire, not only from social conservatives, but from fiscal conservatives as well. Kirk's votes on abortion, gun rights and radical environmentalism is contrary to the state and national Republican Party Platforms. Kirk was never going to receive support from pro-family Republicans, who perceive him as an enemy of the pro-family movement. But the negativity directed at Kirk from fiscal conservatives is most telling.
Some believe Kirk's name recognition and the backing of GOP "moderates" would put him over the top in his effort to win the Republican primary. But Kirk, to put it mildly, lost this voting bloc as well with his now well-known misguided "YES" vote on Cap and Trade.
For some reason, the Illinois GOP and a number of influential Republicans voiced early support for Kirk. Perhaps the Party was unaware of the visceral response that ...
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why is he calling himself republican? he sounds worse than a rino
Laaame. This is the only number that the Illinois GOP (itself a trainwreck) should care about:
In thinking about the 2010 Election for the United States Senate, suppose you had a choice between Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. If the election were held today would you vote for Republican Mark Kirk or Democrat Alexi Giannoulias?
41% Kirk
38% Giannoulias
4% Some other candidate
17% Not sure
That’s a nice thought, but I would settle for Mark Kirk asking the IL GOP establishment to leave Illinois.
Soooo...Conservatives should vote for this person because he’s the only one who can win?
OK I have a question... why did Fitzgerald from IL quit the US Senate?
Navy Vet, I know Kirk and was disappointed in his cap n’ trade vote, too, but he’s our best hope in Illinois. And he will win the primary. This is mainly posturing from the establishment. The GOP establisment in Illinois is a mess, thoroughly infiltrated by democrats and was one the MAIN reasons that Fitzgerald from Illinois quit the senate. Peter Fitzgerald made no friends in the Illinois GOP by opposing bipartisan pork projects such as O’Hare expansion and the shenanigans of now jailed former GOP governor George Ryan. He quit because he knew the establishment wouldn’t support him and he’d have to pay for his second campaign himself just like he did his first senate campaign.
Navy Vet, I know Kirk and was disappointed in his cap n’ trade vote, too, but he’s our best hope in Illinois. And he will win the primary. This is mainly posturing from the establishment. The GOP establisment in Illinois is a mess, thoroughly infiltrated by democrats and was one the MAIN reasons that Fitzgerald from Illinois quit the senate. Peter Fitzgerald made no friends in the Illinois GOP by opposing bipartisan pork projects such as O’Hare expansion and the shenanigans of now jailed former GOP governor George Ryan. He quit because he knew the establishment wouldn’t support him and he’d have to pay for his second campaign himself just like he did his first senate campaign.
So the IL GOP is in the same shape as the IA GOP.
He should get out now. Better an honest in your face liberal than a backstabbing RINO. He'd be the Olympia Snowe of Illinois.
If you knew what a crook and a thief Giannoulias is (he and his family’s bank once used a predatory loan to take and keep an 81-year-old woman’s home), you wouldn’t say that. He’s also a handpicked, nepotism endorsee of BHO.
“Kirk is the worst sort of RINO; anti-2nd Amendment, anti-Life, pro Cap and Tax, etc etc.”
And an AMNESTY loving FOOL on top of all that!
He is political pondscum! I wouldn’t vote for him even if they promised me a redistribution of Kennedy’s wealth from his estate!
Good to know you believe a Navy reservist who’s fought for his country in Iraq is “pondscum.” Noted.
Make sure he knows I think it, too. And I'm a former Marine who fought for this Nation.
Apparently that Squid Reservist forgot that part in his Oath where he swore to "support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Oathbreakers are by simple definition 'pondscum.'
Will do. The question for the people deadset against Kirk is “who else would they like to run?” Why should we just give up a golden opportunity to take a seat away from the democrats and allow a crook like Giannoulias to line his pockets with our tax dollars? What does that accomplish? If you’re suggesting a borderline insane choice like Andy Martin please stop now. I don’t like it, either, but Kirk’s our best hope. Until somebody brings up a realistic possibility of victory that’s better I’m sticking with him. Until then, good luck helping Alexi.
FWIW John Murtha was in the Marine Corps Reserve.
Serving in the military is a plus on the resume, but it doesn't absolve you of all the sins in your life.
SKCM(SS), US Navy Retired
It confuses me as well, C.L.
I hear this more and more, that we should vote for any Republican candidate, no matter how far to the left the candidate's record may be, so that we can regain majority control of congress and then control the legislation that makes it to the floor.
Looking at Specter, Graham, McCain, Snowe, Collins, et al, I would think *someone* in a leadership position would eventually stand up and shout, "STOP!"
If it were not for RINO's, the recent trillions-O'-dollars boondoggle would not have passed! Why elect a RINO when they have proven time and again they are unreliable when it really counts? Nominating and/or successfully electing RINO's has only served to pass the most egregious UN-conservative legislation in our nations history and to turn-off the conservative base -- which I think played no small part in electing a socialist POTUS while simultaneously granting him a majority in both houses.
The GOP needs to try something that they seem to only do after they have exhausted all other options: Run races by *BOLDLY* and *PROUDLY* wearing your conservative values on your sleeve! What a novel concept, eh? It has to be better than the squishy "compassionate conservatism" (that is actually, neither) that they seem to have been trying since Bush Sr.
In short, "with friends like the GOP, who needs enemies?"
I expect opinions will vary...
Thanks.
The question for the people deadset against Kirk is “who else would they like to run?”
Oberweiss or Roskam.
Why should we just give up a golden opportunity to take a seat away from the democrats and allow a crook like Giannoulias to line his pockets with our tax dollars? What does that accomplish?
It punishes RINO's and the crooked ILRCC.
but Kirk’s our best hope.
Yea, a guy who votes with the Dems 75% of the time. That's just what we need.
Until then, good luck helping Alexi.
And congratulations on helping Pelosi.
What’s the difference? Abraham Lincoln couldn’t get elected in Illinois today.
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