Mark Kirk claims to be a key player in the Republican response on Healthcare. Kirk wants to become one of those lifers in the Senate.
Kirk will hold his finger to the wind and come out with his Republican response closer to the primary when it can have the biggest political impact for him. The content will be a bunch of sweet nothing cliches that offend nobody and pass his focus groups.
Hopefully Kirk will find staffers to do it for him more in touch with the real world than the John McGovern’s that Hastert lent to Kirk in the past and who were totally clueless about anything this side of the K Street.
Meanwhile, conservatives have to agree on a single challenger to Kirk, hopefully the summit in Downers Grove this Friday noon will be a step in that direction, even though the governor candidates are featured.
I agree that conservatives have to agree on a single challenger to Kirk, to ensure that the conservative vote won’t split, helping Kirk. When he ran for the U.S. House, in 2000, the primary had 11 Republicans. The conservative vote split, helping Kirk win with 31%. I hope that all IL conservatives will support Dr. Eric Wallace.
NEXT FRIDAY ... 9/4 ...should be fun to watch the dueling warlords