Hugh Hewitt Endorses RINO: Sacrificing Principles for a Win?

Wednesday evening in the Chicagoland area Conservatives attended and event they thought would be an entertaining and informative. Three popular Conservative nationally recognized Talk show hosts were taking questions about Obama’s “First Hundred Days” in office. The Salem Broadcasting Corporation has been hosting a 12-city national tour.

What they got was a shameless promotion of an Illinois RINO candidate courtesy of Hugh Hewitt.

We’ll give Mr. Hewitt a break, maybe he was auditioning to be Mitt Romney’s spokes person for “National Council for a New America.” Hugh officially anointed Congressman Mark Kirk (R-IL) as the best candidate for the Illinois Senate Primary.

Thanks Hugh, why don’t you let the folks in Illinois decide if they want yet another “Republican in Name Only” in office, who has the same exact agenda as Democratic Senator Roland Burris has.

Mark Kirk supports the unconstitutional “hate-crime” legislation. Mark also intends to disarmlaw abiding Americans. In fact here are some of KIRK’S record on other key issues.

In 2005, “Citizens for Global Solutions” gave Representative Kirk a rating of “A.”

In 2006, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Kirk a grade of “F.”

Based on information available in 2006, Sierra Club chose to endorse Representative Kirk.

Based on information available in 2006, Planned Parenthood chose to endorse Representative Kirk.

Representative Kirk voted their preferred position of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 100% in 2002.

Representative Kirk supported the interests of the National Council of La Raza 100% in 2004.

And lastly Mark Kirk a veteran himself, has a problem with honoring and supporting our Veterans.

Andy Martin is a perennial candidate, and has some pretty damaging things in his past history (being disbarred, writing wacky conspircy theory op-eds, etc.) He's pretty RINOish on the issues but at least he does a great job uncovering corruption. But he's not a credible candidate.

Robert Zadek is an obscure figure with no funds, and appears to be running a single issue "flax tax" campaign for U.S. Senate

IllinoisReview listed four credible conservatives who could stop Mark Kirk: Pat O'Malley, Chris Lauzen, Eric Wallace , and John Shimkus.

Of those four, Shimkus would be the strongest candidate and is a very popular downstate Congressman who holds Durbin's old seat in the House. Unfortunately he's also the least likely to run. I've been asking the guy to get off his butt for six years and run for statewide office. He apparently wants to stay a Congressman forever and has no interest giving up his seat to try something else.

Chris Lauzen carries the water for the conservative grassrots in the State Senate and he's had an interest in higher office for a long time. He ran for Congress in 2006 but was stopped in the primary by zillionaire Jim Oberweis (who went on to lose to the RAT). He will probably try for high office again in 2010, but I don't think he'll run for Senator or Governor.

Pat O'Malley is a former State Senator who represented me in the Illinois Senate. He was the conservative choice in the 2002 gubernatoral primary, and lost to establishment GOP candidate Jim Ryan (though he did get more votes than the RINO Lt. Governor, Corinne Wood). He's in private law practive now and has kept out of the spotlight for a wihle.

Eric Wallace is a black conservative activist who is Co-Chairman of the Cook County Republican Party. He is CEO of Wallace Multimedia Group, a popular Christian print media company in Illinois, and holds a Ph.D. as well an a M.A. and TH.M. He previously challenged incumbant RAT Maggie Crotty for State Senate, and lost because the black vote went to the white RAT even though it's a majority black district. He's the polar opposite of Kirk and is a strong social conservative.
http://wallacemultimediagroup.com/
http://rebuildtheparty.ning.com/profile/EricMWallace

Of the four, Wallace has indicated a willingness to run for run in the GOP U.S. Senate primary as the conservative choice if Kirk hops into the race. The rest have not said what their plans are for 2010 (though you can assume Shimkus is going to run for re-election to the House unless something unusual happens)

"Andy Martin" was active in Connecticut (residing I believe in Naugatuck) under his original name (I believe that was Martin Trigonis). He so angered a decidedly non-corrupt federal trial court judge Jose Cabranes (now of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals) that Judge Cabranes actually entered an injunction against Trigonis requiring him to get permission in advance from Cabranes before filing any lawsuit because of the repeated findings of frivolousness of his lawsuits. I had not been aware that he had ever been a licensed attorney and I thought he was a lay litigant (known in the trade as a "pro se" litigant). The wacky conspiracy nonsense was his trademark.

I would love to see Pat O'Malley available.

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