Fitzgerald was clean and opposed to the Combine. Kirk’s a liberal who is joined at the hip to that crooked machine. National Republicans win nothing with this assclown, but they’ll get a lot of headaches.
What do you suggest? A candidate who has ZERO shot of winning like Patrick Hughes?
We need seats. Period. In deep blue country like Illinois, Delaware, or Massachusetts a staunch conservative candidate is a practical impossibility. There is a reason Peter Fitzgerald didn’t run for re-election in 2004. He would have lost badly.