Replies

Kirk may be "able to win" in Illinois, but he won't do the GOP many favors!

Kirk will be a reliable vote on things like leadership votes, filibustering, Israel, drilling, Defense, and judges.

He will be unreliable at best on Life issues, guns, and taxes. He's about a 70%-ish Republican, which is Right-Wing here in Illinois.....sadly......

He is probably, in reality, the only Republican besides Mike Ditka who could win a Senate seat here - even during a GOP tidal wave year. Not an ideal choice, but worlds better than the Socialist IL Democrats that will fight for the seat.

Most interesting is his outreach to Sarah Palin. It demonstrates yet again that numbers, votes, and actual on-the-ground influence are in direct contradiction to the talking points of the press when it comes to Sarah.

Sarah could actually benefit from this if she chose to help Kirk. It would be the first true moderate “chit” built-up for a Presidential run, without having to stoop to a Scozzafava to show the GOP’s “big tent” credentials.

As one of the original Palin-istas, I hope that he does ask for her help, and that she helps (if only after the Primaries). It just makes her bigger, and the press more terrified.

Kirk is very moderate, but he at least falls on the side of Republican. It is Illinois, so he seems to be acceptable in the balance of viability versus Republican credential. Not my preference, but I can live with it.

By comparison, Dede Scuzz was a trojan horse in the make of Arlen Specter. It was better to lose that race than have her win and represent our party. If she had won it would have been a disaster.

If I remember correctly, Kirk’s district is more than 50% Democrat. As such, as a representative, he had to reflect his district. This explains his yo-yo’ing. It’s going to be hard to go for someone else, unfortunately, unless that person not only wows us, but demonstrates in polling that he could win. The sad fact is that for the longest time we have had two extreme left wingers in Illinois (Durbin and Obama), and to even have someone in the middle of the road may be a breath of fresh air. Of course, if we could get an electable conservative to run, I’d switch to him/her in a second, because we actually need to re-build the Republican party in Illinois, and RINO’s have done nothing but destroy it.

WHAT kind of campaign?

First, as an IL resident I would be thrilled if a Mark Kirk type republican won. Remember, we have Dickie Dirtbag who is at the Pelosi level when it comes to contempt for socialism, spending other peoples money, and freedom — and Rollie Burris whose only concern now is getting more accolades to have engraved on his mausoleum. So even a Mark Kirk would be orders of magnitude improvement.

But, we deserve better. I hope the Club for Growth and other target IL as a state where a strong conservative might have a fighting change if the money were behind him. This election is an unprededented opportunity, yet it will still be hard to win “the Obama seat” away, especially when a sizable percentage of voters (living and otherwise) believe it is “an African-American seat”.

=================================

MARK KIRK TRUTH FILE
JUST SAY NO TO SOCIALISM

" "The GREENEST candidate in the race... better than Barack Obama!"
- Carol Calabresa/The Sierra Club, 2008
" The strength of our campaign remains the Democrats"
- Mark Kirk, 2008

Freepmail me to get ON or OFF this list.

Sarah Palin should show Marky the same level of "support" he showed her last year. Marky must really be getting desperate trying to starve off a primary challenge.

=====================================================

Kirk Seeks Palin Endorsement One Year After Trashing Her

Kirk was one of the first elected Republican officials to raise concerns about Palin's selection as John McCain's vice presidential candidate. Back in October 2008, the Illinois Republican told the Chicago Tribune that he "would have picked someone different." Asked later whether he thought Palin was qualified to be one heartbeat away from being commander in chief, Kirk replied: "Quite frankly, I don't know."Quite a few other Republicans were distancing themselves from Palin around the same time. But Kirk was actually associated with the McCain campaign -- having bundled for the Senator -- making his remarks all the more of a distraction for the Arizona Republican.

Quite frankly, I don't know.

– Mark Kirk SOURCE: Huffington Post 11 hours ago