Kirk: Political extremes can’t win elections (RINO says Tea Party can't win in 2012)

WJBC Radio AM 1230 FM 93.7 The Voice of Central Illinois ^ | 2011-10-8 | Dave Dahl

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SPRINGFIELD – The support of groups at one end or the other – say, the Tea Party or MoveOn.org – is great, but U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., said there aren’t enough votes there to win in 2012.

“The reality is independent voters control the fate of the nation,” Kirk said during an appearance in Springfield on Friday afternoon.

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[VRW Conspirator]

And we shall see Mr. Kirk!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder what planet Kirk was visiting during the 2008 elections? “Political extremes” CAN and DID win. The boy sounds like a fool.

[Colonel_Flagg]

The reality, Senator, is that independents and moderates are now identifying with conservatism by the millions. Get with the program.

[Jim Scott]

The support of groups at one end or the other – say, the Tea Party or MoveOn.org – is great, but U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., said there aren’t enough votes there to win in 2012.

Apparently, Senator Kirk slept through the 2010 congressional election. Someone should wake him up.

[RichInOC]

I’m EXTREEEEEME!

[The_Reader_David]

An empty suit won the 2008 election. Some of us knew Obama was a radical, but precious few taken as a percentage of the electorate. What won was contentless rhetoric which simultaneously sounded vaguely uplifting and appealed to the electorate’s own narcissism, vague nostrums about “hope and change” onto which the electorate projected their own idea of “not Bush”, that and the color of Obama’s skin (only those of us who didn’t listen to the MSM and knew about Ayers and Rezko and the effort to which Obama or his handlers went to hide his past had any idea about the content of his character).

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Anyone who thinks that the current administration's politics aren't extreme left wing, and who doesn't think that what the MSM and Hollywood are pushing isn't way to the left, is not a conservative and clearly doesn't belong in the Republican party.

To the morons who think that the tea party is extreme I say ‘compare what they believe to what JFK believed. Then compare what you believe and what Rino’s believe, and what Obama believes to what JFK believed.’ Who's extreme?

[MNJohnnie]

Worked for 0 and the Dems in 2008

[Colorado Cowgirl]

The Tea Party (Taxed Enough Already) is composed of 30% Democrats, 30% Republicans, and 40% Independents. The MoveOn.org crowd has only liberals as a base. So He is wrong to say The Tea Party can’t win in 2012. It can change the direction of this nation back to where it should be, no RINO’s, and enough of Harvard trained idiots, that is change I can believe in!!!

[sourcery]

So Mr. Kirk is a denier? He denies that Obama and FDR ever won a Presidential election?

[Caipirabob]

The tendency of leftists and associated RINOs to label fiscal responsibility as “extreme” is indicative of a mental disorder.

[therut]

What is it about Senator Kirk that makes him a Rrepublician???? I have never seen anything.

[pallis]

Cain can and will win, no matter how much it frightens the establishment. He will have a lot of Tea Party conservatives supporting him in Congress when the smoke clears.

[vicar7]

What a twit the Tea Party will probably choose the next President and it will not be Obama. This is a battle between We The People vs the political/media elite. I know who should win and hoping praying and working so they do.

[hinckley buzzard]

In the last poll I saw that included Sarah Palin, she got more independent support than Obama. So much for the Tea Party losing the "moderates and independents."

[CivilWarguy]

What Kirk misses is that, if it weren’t for the Tea Party, the Dem media would be labeling HIM an “extremist.”

[RobbyS]

Kirk is a card-carrying member of the political class. He is confident that the Republican Establishment has the power to block any conservative from getting the nomination. He thinks that Obama is so weak that even Romney—who has about as charisma as a manikin, can win. Senator, you need to worry that the Tea Party might be so disgusted with you that they will stay home. Between Obama and Romney: thats Hobson's choice.

[Mike Darancette]

I sure would hate to be a Republican running for office in 2012 with the Tea Party against me.

[muawiyah]

Kirk won at the extreme ~ he's definitely a knee-jerk, mind-numbed, robot-like Liberal.

The Democrats given a choice of a probable criminal and Kirk voted for Kirk but when the Dems can come up with somebody who isn't a crook, he's outta' there.