I'm choosing the candidate with the 58% ACU rating, not the guy who'll have a 0% rating.
I didnt have to choose and never voted for Charlie Crist.
Here's to you!!
If no conservative, they get no vote.
We don't get many conservative choices here in Illinois. We do the best we can.
Good luck getting 58% out of him. As I mentioned to someone before, 58% is the best you can hope to achieve. What you will actually get is something well below that. Once RINOs are given power, they kill and destroy conservative ideas. I’ve got one in my state and there is one in the state to the north of me in South Carolina. We’ve seen them before, we know what they do, we know how they behave. You are whistling past the graveyard if you think electing Kirk is going to end up any percentage of good.
Learn from those who have already gone through this process. South Carolina has yet to rid themselves of their uberRINO Graham. We are in the process of ridding ourselves of Crist. He lost. He should have been gone. It is not easy getting these people out once they get in. They will say anything and do anything to keep power. They will lie and play tricks never playing by established rules to hold on to their power. Just take a look at Lisa Murkowski.
How long would we have to suffer the poofter in office if we make the mistake of electing him now??? 2 or three terms unless we can drive him out of the GOP to the Demonratic Parry where he belongs or, unless, ummmm, his health removes him. Meanwhile, he provides a desperately needed financial lifeline to the corruptocrats who run the Illinois GOP with their special rules for self-perpetuation and their general obeisance to the Chicago Demonrat Machine.
ACU rating??? Big deal. The damage that the poofter will do to the GOP, to Illinois and to America will run much deeper than any ACU rating. BTW, are you aware that David Keene, President for Life at Least of the ACU willingly took money from Poppy Bush to try to stop Ronaldus Maximus's nomination in 1980??? Can you grasp the meaning of elitist enemies of conservatism??? Or of Lenin's term" "Useful idiots???"
BTW, for the benefit of those not from Illinois: Does the screen name "Toddsterpatriot" reference the corruptocrat hereditary Chairman of the Crook County Board, Todd Stroger, who finally proved too much even for Crook County Demonrats who dumped him in this year's primary??? He is referenced as the Toddler or the Toddster.
In chess, there is the concept of the "knight fork" in which the knight simultaneously attacks the opposing king and queen. Since the loss of the king is the loss of the game, the defense must usually give up its most powerful piece, the queen. The knight fork is the way of life for the Crook County Machine. It can also be summarized as "We win, we win. We lose, we win." With the help of corrupt state GOP leaders and trash like Kirk, the Machine need not worry about an occasional "Republican" victory since candidates like Kirk are willing stooges just as willing to fund Chicago Demonrats and corrupt Combine Republicans as are Dickie Durbin or Alex Giannoulias.
Step one: destroy (not merely defeat) ANY liberal posing as an Illinois statewide "Republican."
Step two: reclaim the Illinois GOP by whatever means necessary since the party rules have been so long rigged in favor of genuflecting to the Machine.
Step three: recruit decently traditionally moral and patriotic Democrats to cross over. We ought not be afraid to recruit socially conservative blacks and Hispanics. No more Muffy or Skipper or polo club twits running the GOP. "Oh, Muff, all these PRINCIPLES or whatever they call them just make my head hurt! Why can't those pesty peasant conservatives just leave us and our great, great, great grandaddy's party alone! Golly Gee! It's OUR party not theirs. Look what they did to Princess Lisa in Alaska! And to that Castle Republican in Delaware! They wouldn't even allow Bob Bennett to be in the Utah primary and he is a third generation Senator and their ancestors were digging potatoes when his were in the Senate." Did you know John Kerry claims to have served in Vietnam and that the Obamanation claims to be Christian??
Step four: Systematically destroy the Illinois Demonratic Party and its supine allies in the GOP. Finally, if you are voting for the poofter, you are doing the best you can for Richie Daley and the Combiners but not for Illinois, the GOP or for America. If Giannoulias who seems to have the IQ of a shoestring, actually votes with Obama, he will be gone in short order. The priority, however, is to recognize that Demonrats are going to be Demonrats and to understand that the most insidious enemies are the surrender monkeys or worse who claim Republicanism but would put the likes of the poofter in public office to make the Republican brand a badge of social revolutionary shame. That's why electing Giannoulias and ending the poofter's career once and for all is the conservative thing to do. When the party rank and file develop a consciousness of rule or ruin, we win. We will make up for Giannoulias's votes in other states not as corrupted as our own.