[heiss]

yeah..on the other hand..which one you would take:
a) Burris or some other 100% liberal, who is guaranteed to vote for every liberal bill
b) 50% liberal RINO, who at least quite often votes against those liberal bills

i would take the 50% liberal RINO anyday vs 100% liberal. there are a lot of important things that RINO would support..

but i’m still fantasizing that a well-funded, serious conservative would emerge. though from the links here i see this is not likely to be the case.

[BillyBoy]

Kirk is not a "50% liberal", he's to the left of a lot of "moderate Democrats" in Illinois. It's very telling that the only "conservative" things his apologists can point to Kirk supporting was a no vote on porkulus (11 Dems also voted no) and a yes vote on tax cuts eight years ago (28 Dems also voted yes).

Kirk is, at best, a moderate Democrat. We could probably just keep Burris there and he'd do less damage. Kirk would have much more clout to make Obama's socialist agenda "bipartisan"