Posted on 06/14/2010 12:27:53 PM PDT by Daniel T. Zanoza
Kirk should drop out right after Blumenthal.
Rep. Kirk (my congressman) won the primary because he was endorsed by many moderate GOP leaders, including members of the IL GOP State Central Committee and county party chairmen. Too many republican primary voters listened to those leaders and didn’t research the candidates. If they researched the candidates, they would have known that Kirk is more liberal than many Democrats.
I do not ascribe to the "Republican right or wrong" mantra.
Neither do I and evidently, I'm not alone.
Kirk and the scumbag Illinois GOP must not be rewarded. I hope the rat - - whoever it is - - creams him so somebody decent can step up in six years. Kirk is a Jeffords/Chafee/Specter waiting to happen. I’d rather be knifed in the face than stabbed in the back.
Thanks for dragging that decrepit skeleton out of the closet and letting it fester there.
I think the odds of Kirk "dropping out" because you disapprove of him is about 0.000000 %
That's the problem.
The failure of conservatives to think strategically has been and potentially will be very costly to America.
The Republican leadership has done yeoman's work holding it together against Obama's agenda. That it is not recognized is sad.
The consequence of not thinking strategicaly will be more liberalism, more Obamanomics, more socialist/communist/fascist control of our country not less.
I think I read a piece the other day stating that Kirk is a closet Gay. Is there any truth in that charge???????
If Kirk is elected, he will be the next Specter.
More like Jeffords, but he’ll stick around long enough to cripple the GOP and Conservatism.
Possibly. The one certain thing is if Alexi wins we’ll have a mobster for a Senator and a continuing Democratic Senate.
Pick your poison wisely.
This changed the last two election cycles because the establishment changed the game. Sick of losing to the GOP grassroots in hotly contested primaries, they decided to rig the game and clear the field for the RINO.
In 2008 and 2010 all the leading party elites endorsed the “chosen” RINO from the moment he announced, and threatened and bullied any viable conservative with a base and money out of the race to “clear the field” of everyone but little known up-and-comers they couldn't blackmail. In both 2008 and 2010, they sent out bulk emails, snail mail, and web ads during the primary implying their anointed RINO was the ONLY Republican candidate running against the scary Democrat (and implying he had already won the nomination), conning conservatives into donating to the RINO in the primary under false pretenses. The state party officials openly lent party resources to the anointed RINO and took care of the statewide infrastructure of his candidacy, making sure he stayed on script and keeping him the hell away from any open forums where he would have to debate his primary challengers or discuss his platform to conservatives.
Again, this only started in 2008. Prior to 2008, the establishment RINO had to appear at public forums and debate his opponents, and run his campaign with his own resources.
Given the circumstances of these crooked “primaries”, it's not surprising that “Illinois Republican voters” suddenly started nominating RINOs.
Conservatives always share some of the blame in that the conservative base here is hopelessly fractured and often backs multiple candidates in a primary, but even in a one-and-one race, we're handicapped by the combine.
In fact, the ONLY reason we now have a decent conservative as our nominee for Governor is the establishment focused so much time on clearing the playing field for Kirk's Senate bid that they neglected to intervene in the Governor's race and decide on a consensus combiner. They split their support among three establishment-approved choices (State Senator Kirk Dillard, IL GOP Chairman Andy McKenna, former Att. Gen. Jim Ryan) Our side was just as fractured and voted for three different conservative outsiders (Bill Brady, Dan Proft, Adam Andrejewski). Brady was the only downstate candidate and won by 500 votes thanks to a regional advantage. I'll be the first to admit I voted and campaigned for Brady but he wasn't expected to be the nominee and won via a fluke. Fortunately, he's now extremely likely to be our next Governor.
In fact, Brady's double-digit lead proves once again that all the pro-RINO party officials and their apologists claiming that Kirk-style RINOs are “the best we can get” in Illinois are wrong. You don't “have to” run to the left of many card-carrying Democrats to be “electable” in this state. Illinois Republicans may be hopelessly inept in this state and always lose to the Chicago machine, but that doesn't prove the voters “want” socialism.
Kirk is out-of-touch with mainstream American values, and he's proven to be a liar and fraud to boot. If he had any dignity, he's withdraw from the race.
If Fox is going after him you know he is toast!
How the hell do we get a replacement (NO THIRD PARTY!!!). Is there any stature for recall? I don't know the rules and regulations of the combine but this guy is starting to get sleazier by the day.
Once again Billy and Fieldmarshaldj thank you both for opening my eyes, from now on I am going to try and be more informed before jumping on a bandwagon.
All I can suggest is to raise hell with GOP elected officials and party officials and demand pressure be brought to have Kirk step down or be forced out.
If you want Rep. Kirk to drop out, please email all 19 members of the IL GOP State Central Committee and ask them to ask him to drop out of the race. The SCC would vote on who would replace Kirk, on the ballot. That’s how Alan Keyes was chosen, in 2004, but the majority of the SCC has been replaced, since then. No, Illinois doesn’t have recall elections.
If Kirk drops out, I hope that Rep. Roskam would run. If that happens, State Sen. Millner should run for Roskam’s House seat.
Roskam would be the best choice, how do we get ahold of these people? I’m worried you’d have to bribe them since that’s the “Chicago way”.
I can’t find their email addresses. If you use this link, you can find all of their names and addresses:
http://www.weareillinois.org/learn/resources.aspx
We’re lucky that GOP prospects are up in places like WA and CT cause Mark Kirk is not going to be part of a possible GOP majority. Unless he’s forced out of the race and replaced I think the mob banker will win.
New poll (PPP) has the Green party guy at 14%. Like in the 2006 GUV race it appears they are drawing protest support from both sides.
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