Brown in Illinois to raise Senate money for Kirk (RINO ALERT)

The Chicago Tribune ^ | 2010-08-27 | John Chase

[rabscuttle385]

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is in Illinois today to raise money for fellow Republican Mark Kirk. Brown made national headlines when he won the seat long held by liberal lion Edward Kennedy.

In two fundraising events today in Chicago and later in suburban Lisle, Brown is expected to raise about $200,000 for Kirk, officials with Kirk’s campaign said.

[rabscuttle385]

BARF!

[LostInBayport]

...and on Howie Carr's show yesterday Scott hemmed and hawed about campaigning with some actual conservative Republicans running this fall in Massachusetts. They could use his help.

I'm afraid the "established pol" faction of the GOP Senate have gotten their hooks into Scott. Being a lock-step team player was okay in the state senate, where there were only 8 Republicans (what choice is there), but someone needs to slap him upside the head and tell him to think like the average American, not like an establishment Republican.

I have to keep telling myself: Better to have someone who gets it right some of the time instead of Martha Coakley, who'd get it wrong all the time. Better to have...

[Corey Ohlis]

This the best we can hope for in Illinois.

[tlb]

No wonder so much angst in your title. A Republican senator is trying to assist the Republican nominee to take the Obama senate seat away from the Illinois dems.

[Lando Lincoln]

Corey Ohlis wrote:
This the best we can hope for in Illinois.

Bingo. The choice is A or B, simple as that. I get tired of people with the shrill "RINO" tag. A or B. Choose.

[mazda77]

Exactly. Would they have been happier if he was there to raise money for his opponent?

Choose your battles wisely and prepare your defenses even more so. We are going to have to deal with RINO’s in the midst anyway. Prepare to do battle with them in the Senate rather than with the other party.

[rbmillerjr]

Isn’t the primary over in Illinois?

[rabscuttle385]

A liberal Republican senator is trying to assist the hardcore liberal Republican nominee to take the Obama senate seat away from the Illinois dems.

This isn't about Republican vs. Democrat.

This is about conservative vs. liberal.

Unfortunately for Illinois, the race is now pitted between two liberals. And, instead of encouraging more RINO-ism by rewarding RINOs with their votes, conservatives should step back and let the RINO die on the vine by voting for third-party conservatives or not voting for the office of Senator from Illinois at all.

[rabscuttle385]

Primary or not...doesn’t stop me from attacking liberals of all stripes.

And Mark Kirk is a super-liberal.

[Freddd]

Chicago Tribune and Politico articles demeaning Republicans as ‘rino’s’...yeah that makes me believe them....Journolista’s.

[rbmillerjr]

Ahh I see.

So you’d let somebody that supports the Obama agenda get elected and work against us.

Forrest, see the forest.

[rabscuttle385]

So you’d let somebody that supports the Obama agenda get elected and work against us.

What makes you sure that RINOs will support your agenda over the liberal Rat agenda?

[Oldpuppymax]

Fellow RINOs.

[rbmillerjr]

“What makes you sure that RINOs will support your agenda over the liberal Rat agenda?”

Just a little research and common sense. I can guarantee you that you won’t get this from the Chicago Machine Dem you would allow to win.

“Mark Kirk voted for the 2001 and 2003 tax relief packages and supports making this tax relief permanent.

Last year, Congressman Kirk voted against a budget plan to raise taxes by $1.5 trillion and triple the debt over the next 10 years (S.Con.Res 13).

The year before, Congressman Kirk voted against a plan to raise taxes by at least $683 billion over the next five years (S.Con.Res. 70) and a proposal to raise the 10-percent tax rate bracket to 15 percent, re-impose the marriage penalty, cut the child tax credit in half, and raise taxes on seniors, working families and small businesses (H.Con.Res. 312).

Mark Kirk believes we should permanently repeal the death tax and marriage penalty, double the child tax credit and cut the capital gains tax.”

[BillyBoy]

Mark Kirk's "moderate" record, 2007-Present

LEFITST GROUPS
- Voted with Planned Parenthood 100% of the time
- Voted with NARAL Pro-Choice America 100% of the time
- Voted with Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 100% of the time
- Voted with the ACLU 100% of the time in 2009
- Voted with National Council of La Raza 100% of the time
- Voted with the Sierra Club 96% of the time, which is more often than Obama does
- National Education Association gave Kirk a grade of A+
- Citizens for Global Solutions gave Kirk a grade of B+

CONSERVATIVE GROUPS
- Voted with Taxpayers for Common Sense 33% of the time
- Voted with The Club for Growth 19% of the time (9 / 48 votes)
- Voted with Citizens for Tax Justice 17% of the time
- Voted with The Family Research Council 12% of the time
- Voted with American Family Association 0% of the time
- Voted with GOPUSA 0% of the time
- Voted with FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) 0% of the time
- NRA gave Kirk an “F”
- Gun Owners of America gave Kirk a grade of “ F- “

* Voted NO on troop surge in Iraq., H. CON. RES. 63 (In May 2007, when 11 republican congressmen went to the White House and told Bush that they opposed the Iraq surge, Kirk was the group’s leader.)
* Voted NO on allowing school prayer. (H.Con.Res.239)
Voted NO on constitutionally defining marriage as between one-man-one-woman. (H. J. RES 88)
* Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (H.R. 748)
* Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (H.R. 1997)
* Voted NO on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (H.R. 1646)
* Voted NO to H.J. Res. 3-Releasing Funds for Economic Stabilization Act (this act was sponsored by Republicans after the first 300 billion dollars went unaccounted for to block the remaining funds from being released without oversight)
* Voted NO on a bill that would have required hospital employees to notify ICE agents when they treat illegal aliens. (H.R. 3722)

* Voted YES on Cap-n-Trade ( the ONLY Republican member of the Illinois congressional delegation that voted yes!) (HR 2454)
* Voted YES on a homeland security bill that contained a provision authorizing the transferring of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay. (H.R. 2892)
* Voted YES on Democrat Charlie Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax (H.R. 1586)
* Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (H.R. 3)
* Voted YES on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (H.R. 4)
* Voted YES on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Vote number 2001-317)
* Voted YES on Overseas Military Facilities Abortion funding (H.R.708)
* Voted YES on Section 245 amnesty for illegal aliens in 2002
* Voted YES on H.R.2 - the Democrat's SCHIP Program-basically an expansion of welfare (includes $1 tax on cigarettes to "fund" the program)
* Voted YES on H.R. 3997-First Economic Bailout Package (this is the one that failed the first time through) and voted YES on HR-1424:Second Economic Bailout Package (this one was bigger than the first!)

* Supported HR 2, Nancy Pelosi's minimum wage hike that exempted businesses in her own district (Kirk excuse is that he didn't read the bill)
* Co-sponsor of the anti-family, anti-faith "Hate Crimes" bill. ( H.R. 1592)
* Co-sponsored re-introducing the Equal Rights Amendment. (H.J.RES.61)
* Co-sponsored signing on to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. (07-SR30)
* Co-sponsored H.R. 6257, gun banning legislation which would "reinstate the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act."
* Co-sponsored HR 1966, Democrat bill to make "cyber bullying" a federal crime (ONLY Republican co-sponsor!)

· Mark Kirk voted to approve nearly $200 million for the Air Force to purchase three luxury aircraft for ferrying top government office and Members of Congress.
· Claims that he opposes all congressional earmarks, but he earmarked at least $5 million, each, in his limousine liberal district (the wealthiest in Illinois), for HUD, Head Start, local police departments, and commuter trains
· Only one of two Republicans NOT to co-sponsor auditing the Federal reserve.
· Mark Kirk voted to approve a $140,000 earmark for ACORN's New York office. 
. Mark Kirk personally endorsed Elena Kagan and other far-left activist judges, saying he would support their nomination and lead the fight to confirm them if he was in the Senate

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Need I go on? The facts show "Republican" Mark Kirk supports the Obama agenda far more often than he opposes, rbmillerjr. A vote for Mark Kirk is a vote to give Obama's socialist agenda "bipartisan" support.

Sure, you can go on a fishing expidition and find a handful of times where Kirk voted the right way, but if that makes Kirk acceptable, then every Democrat member of Congress who also voted the "right" way on Bush's tax cuts deserves our support, even though they oppose us and vote with Obama the other 80% of the time.

Ronald Reagan said a person who is with me 80% of the time is not my enemy. I agree with that statement. And by the same reasoning, a person who is with me 20% of the time is not my friend. Mark Kirk is more liberal than many card-carrying Democrats. Electing another Jim Jeffords and Arlen Specter to to the Senate won't stop the Democrats, it will enpower them. This has already been proven the last time it was tried. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ·

[BillyBoy]

>> Ahh I see. So you’d let somebody that supports the Obama agenda get elected and work against us. Forrest, see the forest. <<

The only people who fit that description are Kirk supporters, rbmillerjr.

Kirk has shown and even SAID publicly on numerous occasions that he supports the Obama agenda (one of his big campaign issues right now is pledging that he will make Obama's embryonic stem cell exec order into permanent federal law so a future pro-life president couldn't rescind it). He also takes pride in the fact he works against us and has made the fact "he stood up to President Bush and the right wing" a centerpiece of his campaign.

If you support Kirk, you'll let a person who supports the Obama agenda get elected and work against us.

Freepers who both oppose Kirk and Giannoulias, favoring a candidate like Libertarian Mike Labno (or possibly Constitution Party nominee Randy Stufflebeam) reject this approach and will not help a pro-Obama candidate get more votes.

[Impy]

The choice is A or B, simple as that. I get tired of people with the shrill "RINO" tag. A or B. Choose.

There is no A in the race. Just a couple Fs.

[rbmillerjr]

“Need I go on? The facts show “Republican” Mark Kirk supports the Obama agenda far more often than he opposes, rbmillerjr”

If we can’t get a real conservative in, we need to try better next time.

But, really your post is irrelevant. The more conservative of the two guys left is Kirk. Not supporting Kirk is insane unless you want to help prop up Obama’s agenda. Real life is a bitch.

[rabscuttle385]

If we can’t get a real conservative in, we need to try better next time.

"Real conservative"?

Mark Kirk isn't even a fake conservative; that's how far to the left he is.

As has been stated quite often on FR, this is no longer about merely voting for Republicans or for Democrats, and clinging to such an attitude ensures that the establishment will get its way no matter which way you vote. What this is about, however, is voting for conservatives vs. voting for liberals. If Illinois conservatives pull the lever for the fascist liberal O-bot Kirk, then they should own every liberal statist thing he does when he gets to Washington.