I'll take a person who served in our armed forces bravely over a corrupt mob scumbag.
It’s unfortunate I’ve been reduced to having to explain for the umpteenth time to FReepers who have been noticeably absent from endless discussions on the political realities of a given state. I don’t know where you’ve been during all this, but since we must go over this again, let’s take it from the top:
Point #1: Handing the job to Alexi.
First of all, we KNOW Alexi is a crook. We know he will likely be indicted and convicted before long. If he goes to the Senate, his affiliations will cause harm to the Democrats. A Governor Brady will appoint someone who is NOT a member of the Combine. Mark Kirk, his like-minded liberal “opponent” in the November run-off (please, calling it a general is an insult) is ALSO a member of that SAME political machine. He is another damnable Combiner. The November election is a Combiner run-off. If we’re going to have a liberal, better it be the one who is HONEST about being a Democrat. We don’t need another Chafee, Specter or Judas Jim Jeffords. So, yes, electing Kirk would be WORSE than sending Alexi to DC. Alexi is a crook, Kirk is trying to pretend he isn’t, even though he is chin-deep in Combiner chicanery. Why rubber stamp the Combine’s phony, fixed election ? We have Eric Wallace on the ballot who gives the PEOPLE the choice of someone who isn’t a filthy Combiner liberal.
#2 Kirk represents one of the “most liberal districts” in IL.
Untrue. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th and 17th districts are more liberal. It is right in the middle, it is not a liberal district.
#3 Kirk has “to vote RINO or he’d be thrown out of office.”
Also untrue. This is a media and party establishment/Combiner falsehood. Kirk doesn’t vote liberal to stay in office, he votes liberal because he WANTS to vote liberal. He enjoys sticking it to Conservatives, he enjoys being on the wrong side, and he ENJOYS being a member of the Combine with all its perks and benefits. This district could elect a Conservative. Take a look at the heavily Republican 8th district. It elects Melissa Bean, a Democrat. By your reasoning, she MUST vote like a DINO, a Conservative, to hold it. She doesn’t. She votes like a liberal Democrat. You never hear warnings from the media to liberal Democrats like her that she must vote Conservative or risk losing her seat, because that warning is a one-way street made exclusively to Republicans to cajole them into voting the way they want them to.
So with just your one post, you’ve already repeated the myths and media talking points like a pro. After 8+ years on Free Republic, if you had participated in our umpteen discussion threads, many of which occur on a daily basis, and have throughout this cycle, you’d have been disavowed of those claims.
I find it annoying how people misstate how “liberal” some RINOs CD is. Only Joe Cao sits in heavily rat district. Some guy once said Pete King’s NY district was a “democrat bastion”. LOL, it was won by Bush in 2004 and Obama carried it by a margin only slightly larger than his nationwide margin.
Lets look at Kirk’s seat
Vote For President
2008 Barack Obama:61% John McCain: 38%
2004 John Kerry: 52% George W. Bush: 47%
2000 Al Gore: 51% George W. Bush: 47%
Now Obama had the homefield, he won even reliably Republican districts so lets forget his numbers.
It’s a pretty even district and historically Republican. Only rat elected in the 20th century was Abner Mikva elected for 3 terms 1974/76/78
Most believe Kirk is closer to a liberal democrat than to a conservative Republican. He doesn’t “need” to be. He just IS. Jesse Helms may have trouble winning the 10th but there is huge gulf between a Helms and a Kirk.
Never mind that there are democrats that hold HEAVILY Republican seats and barley vote any different from your inner city rats. They may talk conservative but they aren’t. The democrats don’t run actual conservatives even in 2to1 Republican areas.
An example of a liberal Illinois district would be mine, the 4th. Where no statewide Republican ever cracks 25%. 79% Kerry, 85% Obama. There are 4 regular GOP primary voters in my precinct. 1 is me, 1 is a member of my family, and one is not really a Republican but has to vote in the primary cause she serves as a “Republican” election Judge. That’s a heavily rat “liberal” area. Not Buffalo Grove.
BTW John Kerry served in the military. John Murtha. By it self that means nothing.
Any good Kirk did in uniform was negated by his vote to continue to allow the vacuuming out of 3rd trimester baby’s brains. Not even democrats in 90% rat areas need to be that liberal. A supermajority of everyone opposes that, let alone Republicans.
I may vote for Kirk but I’d be voting in a glorified democratic primary in the GE.