There are many others, although I don't know how many are actually "from" Illinois.
Of course, now that Kirk has betrayed us on amnesty (yet ANOTHER issue where Kirk claimed to be "with us" and THEN voted the opposite way once elected... big surprise), I fully expect Kirk's fan club will flip-flop themselves and retroactive claim it's a "minor issue" and "Kirk never said he was against all forms of amnesty".
They did the same thing way back at the start of his Senate term, where they screamed constantly in November that stopping the lame duck session was "THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE EVER!!!" and that we MUST "SEAT KIRK IMMEDIATELY!", then changed their position 180o degrees in December when their hero Mark Kirk was seated and immediately began providing "bipartisan" support for Obama's lame duck session agenda ("who cares about a food bill?")
Like I said, this guy could sponsor and pass legislation to make Obama president for life, and they'd STILL defend him as long as he has that "R" next to his name.
Meanwhile, on the handful of issues where Kirk was supposed "better" than Alexi Giannoulias, he's broken every last one of them. This guy makes Arlen Specter look conservative.
Kirk’s apostasy is a given, because anyone but an idiot could see his record and those folks he is in bed with. What’s appalling is that in my state of Tennessee, where the Democrat party has completely collapsed (with its sole strength remaining here in Nashville & Memphis), we have two Senators that act like they’re representing a Democrat state.
Lamar! is an imbecile and in the course of a year, moved from 6th most liberal RINO to 4th most liberal. Worse yet, we have no substantive candidate in the hopper to challenge him (and Lamar! swiftly moved to obtain key endorsements of usual Conservatives, so he has them embarrassingly pimping how “Conservative” he is as he moved effortlessly into the liberal realm (or at least remaining VERY silent with respect to criticisms)). It is disgusting.
Billyboy, you’re a liar. I defend, not Kirk, who is way to the left of me, but reality. You lose your way. According to the ACU, Kirk is literally ten times better than Durbin.
Let me spell is out to you:
Kirk is measurably better than the Democrat alternative, but only an imbecile would believe that he’s a conservative.
That BlackElk voted for Giannoulias and that you pine for him as Kirk’s alternative under the patently uber-stupid belief that you can expect Giannoulias to ‘betray’ us is beyond words dumb.
Look up the ACU ratings of Kirk and Durbin. If we had two Kirks we’d be better off. If MA, NY, and CA had two Kirks we’d be better off. Think for a change and stop emoting.