[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).

[BillyBoy]

I was a kid during the Percy era, but I looked up his voting record a couple years back and was shocked to discover he was voting to the LEFT of our RAT Senator from that time (Alan Dixon). Several Illinois freepers have told me that the RATs used to love having Percy in power because they could use his endorsement to portray any socialist scheme of theirs as having "bi-partisan support" in the Senate.

I honestly think that if Kirk gets in, we'll be wishing Burris was still there within a few months. Burris might be a socialist but at least he's low-key and has zero clout to enact anything.