Posted on 10/07/2010 8:49:15 PM PDT by Inyokern
Forget “100%”, Chuck Percy, I mean Kirk, is under the Mendoza line, he and his ilk have no place in the party.
I’ll have to vote for him though if Lady MacBeth or Princess Lisa is his opponent next time as I couldn’t stomach that.
Before deciding whether we’ll vote for Kirk, in Nov. 2016, we should find a conservative who will oppose him, in the primary.
I will help by voting for ANY conservative in the primary. If Nancyboy is re-nominated, I MIGHT vote third party conservative if the GOP is lucky.
Opposing some political scum like Nancyboy is NON-NEGOTIABLE no matter who his opponents may be. The only question is which opponent to vote for.
Nancyboy is a Judas Jeffords in the making. He is absolutely useless and will abandon the pretense of being Republican if his defection would keep the Demonrats (whose important social revolutionary and gun grabbing, etc., values he shares) in power.
Nancyboy's sole attractive quality was that stroke which may put one of his feet in the grave (or permanent nursing home residence) and the other on a banana peel. Of course, to take advantage even in that situation would require a GOP governor with actual CONSERVATIVE principles and actual backbone to appoint the successor.
I actually do NOT wish Kirk a medical disaster. I would far prefer to see him crushed and humiliated politically by popular primary vote if possible (which it is).
To elect a conservative requires a CONSERVATIVE GOP in all but the rarest circumstances and the NOMINATION of conservative candidates. That is where the failure lies in Illinois. The Machine controls BOTH parties and the party rules and state laws allow the Machine to do so.
A;so, Illinois conservatives are politically depressed and lack a sense of righteous outrage. 55% is a woeful excuse for a goal.
Whom did you support in the 2010 U.S. Senate primary? I voted for Don Lowery. Kirk was my congressman, and I’ve never voted for him. If I thought that the race would be close, I would have voted for him. In Oct. 2010, I thought that his race wouldn’t be close, so I voted for Mike Labno, the Libertarian.
I voted for Hughes in the primary, after having met him when he came to Rockford.
In the general, I actually voted for the Dem., as I see both men as equally bad, but a Kirk type will wield influence in the Rep. party. Coming from the northeast, I have seen what can happen when an almost competitive Republican Party decides to go mushy middle.
They often will win a high profile election (Weicker, Scott Brown, William Weld, Schwarzenegger, William Weld, George Ryan, JOhn Rowland, Jody Rell), but only at the expense of statewide party identity. When I was a 14 year old idealist in 1976, I remember going door to door for Republicans, not as part of anything official, I just did it.) I couldn’t believe how many people would say that they didn’t like or know any of the Republicans, but that they were okay with Weicker. This is not the way to build a party, or to get conservative things done. We were better off with Leiberman, except that freed Weicker to ruin CT as an “independent” (read, Termite RINO) candidate. It would have been better if Miles Rappoport or that Jody guy or whomever beat him early on.
I voted for Hughes too. He was an incredibly crappy candidate who didn’t know what the hell he was doing.
But he was running 2nd, a vote for Lowrey who was running third would have been counter productive.
A vote for the rat is extremely counterproductive, I’d sooner put a shotgun in my mouth than vote for that Grecian criminal.
And Lieberman is a piece of crap partial birth abortion supporter who almost got Al Gore elected in Florida, Buckey was a fool for helping Lieberman, you don’t help a democrat anymore than you’d help a Nazi. I’d have smeared dog crap on the ballot and cast it blank before I’d vote for him or Lowell Weicker who makes Kirk look like Jesse Helms.
Conservatives lost both those elections at the filing deadline. If no one viable files (which I would bet won’t happen) against Kirk it will happen again. With attitudes like our defeatist friend that Kirk is “the best we can do”, it’s no wonder a conservative like Roskam wouldn’t want to stick his neck out.
We need reform conservatives in this state to start speaking with one voice. These disorganized efforts are fish in the barrel for the combine, all they have to do is sit back and laugh.
Once the Combine made it clear that no viable opponents were to run in the primary (lest they be Fitzgeralded), it was a fruitless endeavor to get behind any of the desultory candidates. The fix was in from the get-go.
Leni
I agree that the Combine (which includes the IL GOP) ensured that no viable conservative would oppose then-Congressman Kirk. That’s one of the reasons why we should ensure that only conservatives will be elected to the IL GOP State Central Committee, in April 2014. I live in the 10th District, where Richard Hamen is running. Tony Castrogiavanni is running in the 4th Dist. Carl Segvich is running in the 7th Dist. Jon Zahm is running in the 17th Dist.
Who elects State Central Commiteee members?
I sure hope the real Republicans in Illinois can come up with a conservative - - or at least a real Republican - - to replce this brain-damaged homo scumbag Kirk.
Good grief, is that too much to hope for in Illinois?
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