Same argument used by conservatives who urged everyone to vote for Arlen Specter in 2004. "At least he's not a Democrat!" Then Specter defected to the Dems and made it official. Kirk would switch parties too, if he "needed" too. RINOs like him would drive over their own mother if it got them fawning coverage from the MSM.
>> In the very strong Republican year of 2010, Kirk won his Senate seat with less than a majority of the vote (thanks partially to a Green Party candidate). <<
Yeah, the kool-aid drinkers will tell us it's because Kirk "worked harder" in the suburbs than the conservative candidate for Governor, though every single voter I know like myself who actually LIVES in the suburbs (not counting the 10% of the suburbs in Kirk's congressional district) never ONCE saw Kirk or "his people" knock on doors here or lift a finger to have any kind of ground game here. You don't suppose vote fraud caused the conservative to lose? Nahhhhhhhhhh. It's because RINOs are magically more electable and can "win" more votes by never campaigning.
>> So, on the RINO removal front, I’m saving my ammunition, time and very limited funds to devote to efforts to get rid of Senators such as Lindsey Graham where we could almost certainly replace the RINO with a true conservative after that conservative defeated the RINO in the primary. <<
Ah, the tired of "we should only go after RINOs in "red states" talking points. ::YAWN:: You guys break you own "rules" anyway, by gushing over GOP senators in "safe" states who go wobbly on us anyway (no one lifted a finger to challenge John Thune in the primary after he stabbed us in the back, a bunch of you guys wanted to give him a promote to President instead). Fire all your ammo at Lindsey Graham if it makes you feel better, but in the long run it won't change things much because Kirk is 10X worse. Even on his worse days, Graham didn't go around worshiping Planned Parenthood and demanding we surrender in Iraq. You are failing to see the big picture. If we took advice from conervatives like you, we'd never get a conservative majority because MOST states in this country voted for Obama so any Republican we run from states can make the excuse they're just voting how the voters want them to.
IL GOPe: “Kirk is recovering from a stroke. Leave him alone. Also, the local media loves Kirk for being an “indepedent thinker”. Plus Jennifer Aniston sent Kirk a get well card.”
Then it’s settled. I’ll focus my attention on replacing squishes such as Graham with true conservatives and you can focus your attention on defeating RINOs and replacing them with “whatever”.
Of course I suspect the chances are fair that you’ll come out later in 2014 to defend Graham against his conservative opponents (after all, it appears that you’ve already started down that road just a bit).