Like I said, you all can sit around and congratulate yourselves on your ideological purity while Shumer is running the Senate.
When Kirk provides the key "crossover" GOP support to get the RATs socialist agenda passed, we'll know what "conservatives" to thank.
BTW, Schumer can’t become “Senate Majority Leader” unless Harry Reid is no longer in the post. Maybe you could go on the Nevada threads and trash all the Sharon Angle voters as “Senator Majority Leader Schumer freepers” because they also refuse to vote for a socialist scumbag.
Because McConnell is a dream come true? I have to tell you these past few years I haven’t sat around dreaming of the good ‘ol days when Frist and Mitch ran the show. The only reason Republicans stand to win is because there is some hope the new people are going to put obstacles in the path of BOTH establishments in D.C.
This is not 2004. Raising the specter of Daschle, or Reid, or Chuck no longer has any effect on conservative voters other then to make them even angrier at the “R” first crowd, put their backs up even more and re-consider if we’re right to be taking a leap in faith that new blood can produce a different result. Just be damn thankful people are voting this year for your precious GOP. The alternative was sit at home in protest or 3rd party..and both options are still on the table if the GOP screws us one last time.
If you’re thinking I’m just blowing hot air about how little your recriminations work these days, take a look at Delaware or the NY congressional race last year. Not a Single. Damn. Regret. that a Democrat was or will preside in the seat instead of the liberal establishment Republican.
When will you draw the line? When will enough be enough for you?
BillyBoy has got a pathological dislike of Mark Kirk that goes way beyond ideology.
I gotta wonder if Mark Kirk beat BillyBoy in a fight when they were younger or whether Mark Kirk stole BillyBoy’s girlfriend away.
It’s a question of short term expediency versus long term learning. Electoral systems are a feedback mechanism critical to the survival of the Republic. We use them to reward wise and good leaders and to punish foolish and evil leaders. When the feedback becomes distorted through an exaggerated sense of urgency, when panic distorts our judgment and we start rewarding the evil and punishing the good, the feedback mechanism is corrupted and we end up lying to the system, which in turn creates these bizarre result we are now seeing, where an insular political class learns it can become totally independent of the feedback as long as it can manipulate our fears.
Therefore, the truly expedient thing to do is start telling the truth to the system, to provide truthful feedback that accurately represents the collective wisdom of the people, not the least of which is our commitment of conscience to the principles of our founding, namely, that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness really are inalienable, and cannot be surrendered under any circumstances to the whims of kings and other tyrants.
A vote for Kirk, if cast by someone who alleges to be prolife, is a lie told to the Republic, and a denial of the foundational principles from which all other freedoms flow. If we don’t start voting the truth, we have no reason to expect the Republic to ever “learn” the truth, that no freedom is safe when life is cheap.