Harry Reid isn’t running in Illinois. Good try at diversion.
Kirk is a terrible man and a terrible candidate. But he’s better than his opponent.
That’s all that counts.
You can throw away your vote on an also-ran if you want. Free country and all that.
Jedidah that is where you are just wrong. If we support candidates like Kirk and worry about “throwing our vote away” then we are just waiting to get the Republicans in power so they will start doing the same old crap they did last time. Unless we send a message that we aren’t going to accept candidates like Kirk they are going to continue to give us Mark Kirks, Charlie Bakers, and Mitt Romneys run whispering campaigns against our conservative candidates. Calling them lazy, calling them extreme, calling them out of the mainstream. Well Mark Kirk is way out of the mainstream of the Republican Party and on an entirely another planet from the Tea Party and conservatives.
This isn’t about purity this is about having people who really have the same goals even if they may disagree on the degree and way of reaching them. Kirk is not one of those men. Brady is still running ahead of Quinn, the only reason Kirk isn’t trouncing Alexi is because he is just another liberal Republican. He’ll lose because he isn’t fit to be Senator.