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Mark Kirk for Senate (Chicago Tribune Endorsement)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 10/7/2010 | Tribune Editorial Board

Posted on 10/07/2010 8:49:15 PM PDT by Inyokern

In 2010, the citizens of Illinois should send to the Capitol a senator who will bring expertise and independence. The candidate who fits that bill is Mark Kirk.

Today the Tribune endorses Kirk, a Republican, for the U.S. Senate seat that Roland Burris soon vacates. To understand our verdict, watch Giannoulias and Kirk's appearance before us this week. You'll find the video at chicagotribune.com/senate. Judge each man's depth and preparedness for the job. Judge knowledge and scope. Judge accomplishment. Judge which candidate has a proven record of thoughtful independence — of bucking his party when the good of this nation is at stake. You won't have difficulty making these judgments.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; axelrod; ayers; daley; giannoulias; il2010; illinois; kirk; kirkrainbowboy; michelleobama; obamacare; porkulus; rezko; rino; senate; tarp; vote4mypetrino
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To: Grunthor
Oh piss off.

Kirk wiped the floor with your guy Giannoulias yesterday on Meet the Press. I can understand why you are upset.

101 posted on 10/11/2010 8:55:44 AM PDT by Inyokern
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To: Inyokern

I don’t have “a guy”.....unlike Kirk, LOL! But really now, why do you demand our support for your pet RINBOW?


102 posted on 10/11/2010 9:26:01 AM PDT by Grunthor (Tax cuts for the poor! If the poor can keep more money they may start hiring again!)
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To: BillyBoy
Don't forget, Kirk is lead co-sponsor of the Conyers-Kirk Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act ( H.R. 1592)
103 posted on 10/11/2010 9:30:27 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: Grunthor
I don’t have “a guy”.....unlike Kirk, LOL!

Do you know how stupid you sound repeating the gay innuendo about Kirk? The gay allegation was made several months ago and it received a lot of publicity, including TV coverage, but it never stuck. There was never any proof.

If you have any NEW evidence that Kirk is gay, then present it. If not, then shut up about it.

104 posted on 10/11/2010 10:16:20 AM PDT by Inyokern
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To: Inyokern

Fair enough. Since there IS evidence that he is a raging leftist, can we talk about that?


105 posted on 10/11/2010 10:55:07 AM PDT by Grunthor (Tax cuts for the poor! If the poor can keep more money they may start hiring again!)
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To: Grunthor

Here is your candidate with a couple of his friends. Giannoulias' friends are putting a lot of time and money into his campaign. I wonder why they are doing that if they are not afraid of Kirk.
106 posted on 10/11/2010 11:34:49 AM PDT by Inyokern
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To: Inyokern

How many times did your pet rino vote with Pelosi and Obama?


107 posted on 10/11/2010 2:42:09 PM PDT by Grunthor (Tax cuts for the poor! If the poor can keep more money they may start hiring again!)
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To: Grunthor

Sean Hannity had Kirk on his radio show today. Sean is supporting him.

But that’s OK. I am sure Rachel Maddow is supporting your guy. Keith Olbermann too.


108 posted on 10/11/2010 4:37:33 PM PDT by Inyokern
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To: Inyokern

Well OF COURSE Shawn is supporting him. The man DOES have an “R” after his name does he not? If Hillary Clinton were to change parties, win the nomination (with RINO lovers such as yourself backing her all the way) Shawn would be on his knees licking her cankles all the way up the White House driveway with YOUR HEAD as his ONLY impediment!


109 posted on 10/12/2010 7:17:44 AM PDT by Grunthor (Tax cuts for the poor! If the poor can keep more money they may start hiring again!)
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To: Inyokern

We have seen this type of “conservative” around here for years always with the same screwball advice - “there’s still some of your nose left, cut closer.”


110 posted on 10/13/2010 10:22:08 AM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: BillyBoy

No I am not dreaming when I realize that EVERY RAT defeat this term is critical to dismantling Urkle’s team and power.

In politics you must compromise from time to time and that is just what this vote will be. All the boogie men you list were all that could be expected from their states just as Kirk is all that can be expected from Illinois.

Brady won because of a crowded field not because conservative principles were overwhelmingly popular.

Kirk could not be beaten by more conservative candidates whether we like it or not. To stalk off in a snit because better candidates lost is not a mature reaction.

Why do you insist on acting as though Illinois votes like Idaho when you know damn well it does not.

The real “RINO” does not vote for his party’s candidate when the only alternative is a RAT.


111 posted on 10/13/2010 10:58:23 AM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: Grunthor

The greatest difference is Kirk is not a crook closely tied to the RAT machine which controls this state. His election will be a body blow to that control.

Giannolis has no Congressional votes to compare. However, he does have a long record of corruption and deals with crime syndicate figures.

This vote is no endorsement of Kirk but entirely a vote against the Democrat Party. Since I am a Bears fan I root for the team whose victory would help them even though I do not like the team being favored.

Strictly tactics.


112 posted on 10/13/2010 11:05:10 AM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: BlackElk
How laughable. A crook “discredits” the RATS? In what world?

There is almost NO chance Gman will be indicted or convicted except in your dream world.

Even those filled with hatred and bile can't point out Kirk's “corruption” any more than they can any evidence of his being light in the loafers. I have never seen any.

Are you sure the Greek is not a practitioner of sexual practices NAMED after his ethnic group? How can you prove it?

113 posted on 10/13/2010 11:15:31 AM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob
arrogantsob: The, ummm, Greek, is the Demonrats worry. but Nancyboy is the concern of the GOP. Why don't you use this platform responsibly and explain what is so damned important about the next two years about a GOP majority even if it had to include the poofter? Certainly Obamao won't need Senatorial majority GOP support for judicial nominations to put constitutionalists on out courts, any more than he will appoint patriots or supporters of traditional morality. Furthermore, we have enough GOP senators before this election to stop such nominations by holds and filibusters but we have to worry about internal fifth columnists like Snowe, Collins, Murkowski and their ilk to defect to Obamao on the nominations of his worst. We don't need to add Nancyboy to the already too large subcaucus of liberal phonies posing for holy pictures at election time and backstabbing us for the next five years. Some of this trash would even oppose good or even great nominees (see what happened to Robert Bork and the shameful treatment of Clarence Thomas as a prime example).

Let us suppose for the moment that Nancyboy is somehow NOT a poofter. After all, he was married before he was divorced. Of course, Larry Wide Stance is also married. So what? Just as being single does not prove one's poofterness, so being married does not prove that one is not, ummm, omnivorous in an amorous sort of way. One then wonders why Nancyboy does not even care to deny it. At least Larry Wide Stance made such denials on an all too frequent basis.

Jack Roeser's Sunday morning WIND 560 AM show which features the arguments of Illinois's Republican Renaissance Project has also suggested (without naming the other party) that Nancyboy has moved a young unmarried Congressman of otherwise upstanding credentials into his DC living quarters and is busily engaged in corrupting him.

Hopefully there is every chance that Giannoulias will be elected On November 2, to spare the GOP the humiliation of having Nancyboy as a United States senator.

Whether or not Nancyboy Kirk is a poofter, he is certainly friendly to their continuing corruption of American society. He is certainly enthusiastic in his support for the mass slaughter of innocent babies. I'd sooner be represented by Al Capone in his salad days than by an open supporter of abortion since Capone at least picked on folks his own size. Capone did not like taxes either and he had a very strong track record for success in business and meeting payroll and a known antipathy for taxes. Capone was also more aligned with Republican views and policies than Nancyboy ever will be or ever will want to be. When Capone was around, Chicago, yes CHICAGO, had a Republican mayor in Big Bill Thompson, a Capone protege. Herbert Hoover screwed that up by his tax-hiking RINO policies and Capone had to move to Cicero, abandoning Chicago forever to Czermak and then to the machine of Messrs. Nash and Kelly. Given what is known of Capone's internal relations with those gangsters who betrayed him, I would gladly put American foreign policy in his hands before I would put it in Nancyboy's hands. Christians and Jews would be praying for relief for the poor Muzzies in Capone's sights. Just let Capone know that the Muzzies ban the sale of booze and Capone would take it from there. Unlike Nancyboy, Capone was no gun grabber either but an enthusiastic practitioner of the RTKBA. If Alexi bears any resemblance to Capone and is a gangster wannabe, that probably suggests that he has conservative potential. Certainly more so than Nancyboy.

Support of baby-killing is corruption. Do you deny that Nancyboy is an enthusiast for baby-killing? What are his ratings from NARAL and Planned Barrenhood and how did he obtain them without cheerleading the slaughter of the innocent?

Support of sexual perversion (whether practiced or not by the supporter) is corruption and leads to dire consequences for the societal host for the perversion parasite. See the homosexual shenanigans of the Moscow Garrison just before the bolshevik revolution in which Czar Nicky II's cousin Michael who was commanding officer enthusiastically participated. Also, what do you suppose that Rasputin thought was on the social menu of the evening (on the night that he was exterminated) at the home of notorious poofter Prince Michael Yousopoff and his, ummm, close friend who between them did what was necessary to dispose of Rasputin-too little too late for the Romanov Dynasty but just saying.

Undermining American military strength is, for members of Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution, corruption whether you agree or not. Further, they don't call these folks limp-wristed for nothing. They think we are wasting money on weaponry that should be reserved for art galleries and opera houses.

Gun grabbing IS corruption (Thou shalt not steal! and the 2nd Amendment). Shall I go on?

They won't indict Blagojevich either. Or Lyin' George Ryan. Or Walkin' Dan Walker. Or Otto Kerner. And those are just the governors. They won't indict Rostenkowski or Jan Schakowsky's hubby or Tony Reczko either. At some point, the federal prison system is going to plead with Illinois to stop electing governors or empowering lesser trash because of the serious problem of overcrowding in federal prisons. When FDIC guarantees to cover account holders' account balances in the event of losses, lending tens of millions of dollars to already convicted and sentenced gangsters (federal felons) just may be indictable (write Tony Rezcko at whatever federal hoosegow is his residence du jour and ask him how the federales view loans to such unworthy recipients. Ask Tony about how much he is laughing now as the recipient of such loans and then ask how FDIC views such loans by "family-owned" banks that have to be taken over by FDIC because of such practices.

Shall we assume that Lindsay Graham, a notorious RINO with a considerably sounder voting record than Nancyboy is not "light in the loafers?" How about Larry "Wide Stance" Craig busted at the Minneapolis airport for propositioning a male cop or Mark "Turn Over Another Teenage Male Page" Foley. Have Republicans not been sufficiently embarrassed by these despicable characters? I think so whether you do or not.

Penultimately, Nancyboy will do nothing more effectively than 1) prematurely restore to veteran RINO senators their majority and cherished opportunities for payoffs from lobbyists and 2) bring home tons of federal pork for the Chicago Machine and its "Republican" Combine allies, thus extending the control of the Combine over the pathetic and purposefully disenfranchised Illinois GOP. All the while, Nancyboy will be a place holder to keep this Senate seat safe for abortion, poofterism, gun grabbing, etc.

Finally: Oh, I know why we are supposed to elect Nancyboy. Obama and the Demonrats are willing to extend ALMOST all of the Bush tax cuts. Tewo cuts are in controversy. The first, because of Demonratic hatred for the institution of the family and its practice of noirmal sexual relations between one man and one woman, there are plenty of Demonrats willing to restore the marriage penalty lest there be federal tax preference for the normality that produces the children who will be our future population. There are enough Demonrats who fear to tread there that, in combination with Republicans who are straight and who support actual marriage (OMOW). Giannoulias may well be one.

Then we get to the REAL reasons why RINOs and DIABLOS get a tingle up their collective leg at the very thought of Nancyboy as a Senator. Nancyboy will vote to extend the uppermost marginal income ($250,000+) tax breaks that make the GOP disreputable to so many citizens of modest means. If all the Republicans stick together, we will have only the choice of depression w/o any extension of the Bush tax cuts or all of the Bush tax cuts extended including the ones that most Americans resent. Let's divide the question. Extend the Bush tax cuts WITH a permanent repeal of the death taxes and gift taxes included but NO top bracket rate reduction (restore pre-Bush rates on that).

Ordinarily, I am among the most loyal of Republicans and I generally urge folks not to vote third party. BUT there are exceptions, notably Lowell Weicker, Chuck Percy, Nancyboy Kirk and Mike Castle are good examples of those exceptions. It is well worth even voting for a Democrat instead of them. In fact, if a Republican is as worthless as they, why bother voting third party (half a vote for civilization) when one can vote for a Democrat who is no worse on the issues that count (guns, babies, marriage, military) than the RINO or DIABLO who is determined to give bipartisan cover to the Demonrats on such issues. The vote for the bad Democrat purifies the GOP and leaves it in a position to come back and fight again. Note that Nancyboy's Congressional District is showing a double digit lead for the Demonrat against a Republican who is only marginally better than Nancyboy. This is often the case when liberals are elected as though they were Republicans.

Thank God and Richie Daley for the Chicago catacomb vote. At least this time Demonrat corruption works in favor of Western Civilization.

114 posted on 10/13/2010 12:51:46 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Inyokern; Grunthor; fieldmarshaldj; Dr. Sivana
Inyokern: Obviously, they are planning on raising your taxes and those of the top 1% allgreedy while cutting everyone else's taxes OR forcing a Republican caucus to discredit itself and its members by holding out for that last nickel for Inyokern and the 1%. Of course, Inyokern feels no corresponding responsibility to reserve the Republican title for those who want babies to be saved, marriages to be preserved, guns to be ungrabbed, wars to be won, weapons to be funded, etc. Maybe actual conservatives can make a deal with the Democrats and have your uppermost bracket income taxes raised to pre-Bush levels so long as every nickel goes to additional military spending and weapons syatems. Sound like a plan?

Got any pictures of Kirk and his pals? You know: Code Pink, Log Cabin Republicans, NARAL, Planned Barrenhood, Citizens for Handgun Citizens for Handgun Control, true believers in Atzlan? Warren Buffett and Bill Gates? Noam Chomsky? Nancyboy's buddies and ideological kinfolk 'R' (Them). Alinsky died too long ago for Nancyboy to have been pictured with him or....

115 posted on 10/13/2010 1:07:56 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Inyokern; BillyBoy; Grunthor
Billyboy: I meant to ping you to #114 and #115

Inyokern: Do you know how stupid YOU sound?

Apparently the news on Nancyboy did not stick with you because your precious zillionaire tax cuts are far more important to you than whether the culture of our nation is further damaged by the advance of poofters and poofterism. You should be willing to admit that you simply do not care for conventional morality especially when it may get in the way of your personal demands for special attention to your uppermost bracket tax cuts NOW!!!

I'm not shutting up about it and I hope Grunthor, Billyboy and others don't either. I never like to see anyone restrained in their exercises of opinion-making. That is always JimRob's call here since it is his living room and he has every right to make the rules. Additionally, in fact, I hope you keep talking about your devotion to Nancyboy. It helps distinguish you from actual conservatives. We should know the beliefs and reasons for same of those with whom we are dealing. So should you.

116 posted on 10/13/2010 1:21:19 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: arrogantsob; fieldmarshaldj; BlackElk; calcowgirl
>> The greatest difference is Kirk is not a crook closely tied to the RAT machine which controls this state. <<

LMAO!! Sure, that's why Kirk wouldn't lift a finger to oppose Obama in 2008, got thousands of dollars from Obama's guy Tony Rezko and why he admitted he working behind-the-scenes to help Chicago machine goons like John Frichley (who's such a blantant crook even RAT primary voters wouldn't take him!).

I suggest you read fieldmarshaldj's post on Kirk's ties to the combine and educate yourself: www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2573067/posts?page=35#35

And if you're going to bring up the fact the DailyKos type moonbats were gung-ho to defeat Kirk with Dan Seals in 2008, that's like trying to "prove" Joe LIEberman isn't Al Gore & Bill Clinton's yes-man because the DailyKos moonbats tried to replace him Ned Lamont. In both cases we know they do the RATs bidding on 90% of the issues and are tied-to-the-hip of Obama's biggest allies in the mainstream media, regardless of what the Kucinich lunatics say.

These arguements remind me of how California Republicans were told to put the Kennedy clan in charge of California to "stop Democrats"

117 posted on 10/13/2010 1:43:14 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Inyokern; Grunthor; Dr. Sivana; BillyBoy; calcowgirl
Inyokern: No actual Republican and no actual conservative in his or her right mind would be caught dead voting for Kirk. Even in Chicago where the dead are a vitally important constituency, few of them will vote for Kirk. Even the dead have some self-respect.

We had Obamao in the Senate because of the RINO/DIABLO Combiners who were mad enough to slug you with their purses over Jack Ryan winning that year's GOP senatorial primary. Whatever Jack's drawbacks, no one familiar with his ex-wife thought of Jack as being over fond of other fellows. So we brought in Alan Keyes as a substitute on the fiction that he resided in Calumet City and not his actual long-time residence in Baltimore. He screamed. He hollered. He yelled. He lost. Regardless of ideology, Alan was a terribly bad candidate. Meanwhile on the Demo side, the front runner was destroyed by marital scandal and Obamao was the one left standing. As a state senator, Obamao actually refused to vote to make POST-ABORTION killing of survivors a crime. Thanks Combiners for that careful attention to the issues that count.

I am going to vote my Catholicism whether Muffy and Skipper down at the yacht basin and polo club like it or not. That normally means voting GOP but NOT for Nancyboy or anything similar. If Muffy and Skipper were your kids, would you want either one to marry Nancyboy? If not, why not? Why would you be caught alive or dead voting for such a POS???

BTW, I don't think of that senate seat as Obamao's seat. I think of it as Peter Fitzgerald's seat and, forgive me but I will not be a party to, ummm, Nancyboy trying to fill Peter Fitzgerald's seat. I bet Peter Fitzgerald would not be a party to that either.

BTW, pooooor, spoiled baaaaaby. There are FReepers who have the nerve to disagree with him! Here's a tip. Free of charge. The elder (and competent) Mayor Daley said in 1968 at a press conference: "I have been vilified. I have been crucified. I have EVEN been criticized!" He was rather successful in spite of his malapropisms. You may want to use that line yourself since it credibly fits your sense of entitlement.

BTW, I am still waiting for that political resume of conservative activity. Why am I not surprised that a Nancyboy supporter does not have one worth offering?

118 posted on 10/13/2010 2:04:05 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Inyokern; BlackElk
"Their only goal seems to be to keep the Republicans from gaining a majority in the Senate. "

No. The goal is to get the Rockefeller "cocktail party" wing's hands off of the controls of the party. That means retiring their war horses (Mike Castle, Lisa Murkowski) and playing Whack-a-Mole with the next wave (Mark Kirk, Chris Simmons).

By the way, you would do well to stay away from factually erroneous statements like "I am convinced that Black Elk and his crew is from DU." Phil Collins and the others in ICRC can vouch for both of us, as we are members in good standing. Who will vouch for you?
119 posted on 10/13/2010 2:39:20 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: BillyBoy
California Republicans were told to put the Kennedy clan in charge of California to "stop Democrats"

It still boggles the mind, don't it?

Worse: voters fell for it.

120 posted on 10/13/2010 3:14:44 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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