Mark Kirk for Senate (Chicago Tribune Endorsement)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 10/7/2010 | Tribune Editorial Board

[Inyokern]

In 2010, the citizens of Illinois should send to the Capitol a senator who will bring expertise and independence. The candidate who fits that bill is Mark Kirk.

Today the Tribune endorses Kirk, a Republican, for the U.S. Senate seat that Roland Burris soon vacates. To understand our verdict, watch Giannoulias and Kirk's appearance before us this week. You'll find the video at chicagotribune.com/senate. Judge each man's depth and preparedness for the job. Judge knowledge and scope. Judge accomplishment. Judge which candidate has a proven record of thoughtful independence — of bucking his party when the good of this nation is at stake. You won't have difficulty making these judgments.

[BlackElk]

Actually, Nancyboy’s differences with udas Jeffords grow out of the fact that Jeffords MAY be straight and Vermont, whatever its ideological drawbacks, is a relatively clean state. In Vermont, you don’t HAVE to be a crook to be a liberal.

[Grunthor]

“Mark Kirk for Senate (Chicago Tribune Endorsement)”

You mean the Mark Kirk that is basically a DemonRat in everything but name? Eff him (spit)

[Grunthor]

“I think this editorial will clinch the election for Kirk.”

That would truly be a low down dirty shame.

[BlackElk]

At least Alexi G is honest enough to admit his status as a Rat. Nancyboy prefers to sucker the public by posing as something else. Vote for Alexi. He is a brand name crook, not an amateur. He belongs to THEIR party and discredits them. Nancyboy would discredit the GOP if he got the chance. He’ll be in prison soon enough and Governor Brady will appoint a conservative to replace him. Also, Nancyboy can then move to Greenwich Village or Fire Island where he/she/it belongs. Thank God and Messrs. Nash and Kelly that the Chicago catacomb vote will spare us this humiliation. If the stench of “the Rat crook” is overwhelming, why are you voting for him? You don’t think that Nancyboy is anything but a Rat crook in drag, do you?

[Inyokern]

Vote for Alexi.

I think some of you guys are Democratic plants. I know the Dems do that sort of thing. They send people around to conservative blogs and tell people that the Republican candidate is no good and that people should throw their vote away on some third party candidate who has no chance at all.

But, I must say, usually they are not so dumb as to come out and say "vote for the Democrat" as you have done.

[BlackElk]

Inyokern:

I favor extension of Bush's tax cuts for everyone including the over $250,000 per year set, but that will be mostly achieved in any event by extending those under $250,000. It is worth protecting the over $250,000 set but NOT as worthwhile as getting rid of Roe vs. Wade, taming SCOTUS and the federal court system generally, funding the military, protecting the RTKBA, and supporting Western Civilization, etc. The wealthy themselves should be delighted to pay a mere additional 4.5% income tax rather than support trash like Nancyboy. No tax cut is worth having Nancyboy ruin what is left of the Illinois GOP and its brand. If that means that you have to pay a bit more in the way of taxes (not likely to depend on Nancyboy's elevation to pollute the Senate in any case) for a couple of years, I can certainly live with that. Just keep telling yourself the truth: It's ONLY money! Six years or until indictment of Alexi G playing basketball with Obamao (can't legislate on the basketball court) is worth it not to have a "GOP" senator devoted passionately to baby-killing, gay marriage and gun grabbing, among many other evils. Thank me too. If Nancyboy is defeated, I shall have earned it.

[Inyokern]

You're for Kirk because he supported the Bush tax cuts and doesn't want them to be repealed? There are over two dozen card-carrying Democrat Congressman (31 at present) who hold the same view.

I am glad that some Democratic congressmen are scared enough to support extending the tax cuts. Giannoulias is not one of those, by the way. If he wins and the Dems hold the senate, that means no tax cut.

And, by the way, are you willing to state in front of everybody here that you honestly think Labno has a chance to win? Are you willing to predict that he will break 10%?

[calcowgirl]

I don't know exactly what that means...

Then I really can't help ya. It's kinda fundamental.

[BlackElk]

Please, don’t eff him. We need you here and in good health. I do get the impression that Nancyboy may have done a stint on the Trib’s casting couch in exchange for their craven endorsement of this thing.

[Inyokern]

Hey Calcowgirl,

Tell me you think Labno has more than a one-in-a-million chance to win the senate seat and then we can talk about who is the liar.

[BlackElk]

No, that may mean no tax cut for you. The rest of the tax cuts will be extended. Your cut depends on a lot of other Senate races. Your tax cut vs. permanently destroying the Illinois GOP and sending the pro-abort poofter gun grabber to the Senate. No brainer! Send money to Christine O’Donnell, Carly Fiorina and Sharron Angle.

[Grunthor]

“They send people around to conservative blogs and tell people that the Republican candidate is no good”

In the case of Mark Kirk, he’s not just “no good” he’s a low down dirty rotten scumbag demonrat masquerading as a “Republican.”

[BillyBoy]

>> “Mark Kirk for Senate (Chicago Tribune Endorsement)” You mean the Mark Kirk that is basically a DemonRat in everything but name? Eff him (spit) <<

HEADLINE SHOULD READ:

Obama-loving Chicago Tribune Endorses Kirk to Be Heir Apparent in Senate

Kirk Supporters Continue to spout off delusions that electing Kirk will "Stop Obama"

[Inyokern]

So let me get this straight. You are hoping that Giannoulias wins because you “know” he will be indicted and then Governor Brady will get to appoint a genuine conservative senator.

There are three problems with this:

1) It is not a sure thing that Brady will win.

2) It is not a sure thing that Giannoulias will be indicted. (He probably should be but it is far from a sure thing)

3) Brady would only get to pick a senator who would sit until 2012. Then there would be a special election which the Democratic machine might well win.

So, you guys are one of three things:

1) Out of your minds

2) Stupid

3) Democratic plants.

Which of those three are you?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks STARWISE.

[calcowgirl]

The two are mutually exclusive. Again, fundamental.

[Inyokern]

Calcowgirl,

You seem to be admitting by omission that you do not really believe Labno has any chance of winning. You just want Republicans to throw their votes away so that Giannoulias will win and the Dems will hold the Senate.

Let’s get real about this. A vote for Labno is a vote for the Democrats.

[BlackElk]

This Democrat plant was Ronaldus Maximus's state chairman in Connecticut in 1976 and previously was state chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, College Republicans and the Connecticut Conservative Union. Despite Connecticut's small size, my YAF organization was the fourth largest state YAF organization in the country, exceeded in membership and chapters only by (at any given time over a three year period) no more than three of New York, California, Illinois and Texas. I was nominated for Congress at 26 years of age and, despite the fact that the district has been GOP for only two years since 1958, I got a higher percentage of the vote than the other GOP challengers and did that on $6,000 in campaign funds, $1,500 of which arrived too late to be spent. I also served as a GOP Town Chairman in a town whose population was 8th among Connecticut's 169 towns. I also participated in leadership in forcing the repeal of CT's first state income tax law (1971 imposed by Tom Meskill, a conservative governor who wanted the money to hire his friends) before a nickel was collected. Connecticut finally was ruined by an income tax imposed by Lowell Weicker bribing his way to victory on that issue in 1991 as payback for the fact that we took his Senate seat away and gave it to a better man, Joe Lieberman. I also found a lot of time for representing arrested pro-lifers and about 30 arrestees out of 1100 were convicted and the 1070 not convicted resulted from the militance of the clients in "Rescuing" the unborn at abortion mills, as well as NRA members arrested by overzealous law enforcement.

That is part of my track record. Other than coupon clipping, what's yours?

BTW, favoring the slicing, dicing and hamburgerization of thoroughly innocent unborn babies is an awful lot more disreputable than being a Democrat as such. Giannoulias is no prize but he is the Demonrats' problem. Nancyboy is a "Republican" problem. As Clint Eastwood said (metaphorically, of course): A man has the obligation to shoot his own dogs. In Illinois, this year, Republicans who ARE Republicans, conservatives who ARE conservatives and men who ARE men have a mutual obligation to politically dispose of Nancyboy whether that means your taxes go up or not. The issues I care about are one hell of a lot more important than whether you pay 39.6% instead of 35% on your income above $250,000.

Maybe conservatives should consider whether a little class warfare directed against the obsessively materialistic might not be a good idea both politically and morally if the obsessively materialistic refuse to understand their place in the conservative movement (you get support on taxes but ONLY if you toe the line on everything that is important to the conservative rank and file: guns, babies, marriage, military, etc.)

Don't like that??? Become a full-fledged honest and candid Demonrat, give them fat checks in exchange for special deals, and see how that Hopey Changey thang works for ya. This ain't your investment banker great grandaddy's GOP and it never will be again.

Instead of a personal income tax on wages and salaries, CT had taxes on dividends, interest and investments. Those who opposed the income tax were steadfast in opposing those taxes too but it is not particularly easy to defend those folks and the materialistic obsessions that are their lifeblood. They will never have conservative support in Connecticut again because they sold out to their fellow malefactor Weicker when he cut their investment, interest and dividends taxes in exchange for them abandoning the rank and file of Connecticut citizens. Prince Lowell came twenty years before Princess Lisa Murkowski. Pro-abort, pro-perversion entitlement elitists with money obsessions.

You think wrong, but, given your posts on this thread, that comes as no surprise.

[BlackElk]

Brady is one hell of a lot more of a sure thing than Nancyboy is.

Personally, other than reclaiming the senate seat for someone like a Peter Fitzgerald, a man's man, a real Republican and a real conservative, I don't care whether Giannoulias is indicted. His indictment is a nice to have and not aneed to have.

When you get together with those of similarly narrow and materialistic interests, as Lowell Weicker whether those who took hios Senate seat from him were: 1) out of their minds; 2) stupid or 3) Democratic plants (be sure to check his despicable voting record and his fundraising at the governor's mansion for NARAL and for Planned Barrenhood. It was an earlier era, but at least LoLo, despicable though he was and is, knows what goes where, unlike Nancyboy. Likewise Lieberman and Giannoulias (apparently). LoLo also knows not to show his face in Connecticut. Maybe Nancyboy can move to Fire Island and not darken Illinois's door again.

What are the differences between Larry Craig and Nancyboy?? Larry Craig got elected to the Senate not once but several times and Larry Wide Stance Craig had a sense of shame. Soon, they will share the status of former officeholders, though.

Don't like your taxes now??? Wait and see what they will be if you are abandoned by social conservatives. What was that again about Out of their minds, stupid and Democrat plants? Put the mirror down and slooooowly step away from it.

[calcowgirl]

You just want Republicans to throw their votes away

NO.

I want the supporters of politicians to be honest about what they are selling, not to ignore the obvious flaws, or worse, to lie about the abhorrent positions some hold.

Nothing more.

Vote for whomever you choose. It is your precious right. Just as it is someone else's right to vote for someone you don't support.