[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"

[fieldmarshaldj]

I mean for heavens’ sake, Kirk is to the left of Chuck Percy, the former leftist RINO Senator. There were a number of Conservatives who voted for Paul Simon in ‘84 just to run that asshat out of office (much like how they did with Lieberman over Weicker in ‘88 in CT).