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[fieldmarshaldj]

He’s such a treasure, ain’t he ?

[101voodoo]

The RINO states the obvious. There is no one group which in and of itself can win an election. The idea is for a group to get the other groups members to come to their side by convincing them of the “rightness” of their positions.

[behzinlea]

From Kirk's perspective, he probably believes that if he had run in liberal Illinois as a Tea Party core conservative in 2008, he would have lost, perhaps as badly as Alan Keyes did in 2004.

From what I know about the liberal cesspool that much of Illinois has become, I think he would be right.

Whatever the popularity of individual Tea Party candidates like Herman Cain might be, the notion that the Tea Party somehow appeals to the majority of mush-headed swing voters is delusional. The thrashing of Tea Party favorite Sharon Angle in Nevada in 2008 by the roundly disliked and unlikeable Harry Reid is a prime example of what happens when delusion meets reality.

I don't understand why you people think mush-brained nanny state-loving swing-voter dolts are somehow in thrall with the Tea Party. I wish that they were, but if they were, they wouldn't be mush-brained nanny state-loving swing-voter dolts.

And sadly, they're the voters who will elect the next president.

[Jim Noble]

Kirk is right- IF you accept the two-candidate limit.

Romney breaks the model.

[central_va]

Political extremes can’t win elections

Ok butt munch Kirk, then explain how the most liberal, extremely polarizing and inexperienced Senator in the history of the US, got elected President in 2008 ?