All I’ll say about Kirk is at least he has more cajones then our senior Senator Dick-less Durbin.
Even though he was one of eight Republicans to vote for cap-and-trade, he at least had the guts to face his constituents in town hall meetings. I was in attendance at one of them, and he caught Hell. There was a lot of anger about what he did. He knows he did wrong. He admits it and is moving on.
Unlike his fellow Congresscritter Melissa Bean, who had a teleconference with constituents, Kirk had been out there face-to-face. Dick-less Durbin comes up with some lame excuse, but Kirk was saw and heard the anger.
I don’t necessarily agree Kirk is the best choice, but he showed me he could man-up and face adversity. Durbin is a POS (but you already knew that).
Kirk claims he "learned his lesson" about cap-and-trade after the flood of outraged emails and phone calls, yet he pointedly REFUSED to say whether he'd chance his vote if he could do it over again and REFUSED to pledge he won't vote for cap-and-trade in the Senate. Seems to me Kirk is still on board for Obama's socialist agenda, the only thing he "learned" is hide it when he has to win a GOP primary.
That's the problem with RINOs, whenever their vote "counts" they stab you in the back. Kirk was on "our side" when his vote didn't make a difference like Bush's tax cuts and the GOP's token opposition to porkulus, but when the voting was down to the wire on cap-and-trade and reporting illegals, Kirk made sure the Dems won. RINOs deliver for nobody but the left.