And your post proves my point that numerous misguided "conservatives" attack conservative Senators but defend liberal Senators.
Elsewhere on this thread, we have freepers demanding Roberts head on a platter and calling him a RINO when he is one of the most reliably conservative members of the Senate and one of the few we can can count on to stand with Ted Cruz.
Meanwhile, we have Mark Kirk in the Senate, a man who publicly gloated about the fact he rated TO THE LEFT OF OBAMA by the Sierra Club, and who is more liberal than Lisa Madigan on abortion and gloats about his 100% Planned Parenthood rating and is so liberal on banning guns that Sarah Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence endorsed him OVER a marxist Chicago machine Democrat. That's reality, and you are defending him and mocking reality.
Too many conservatives have their priorities backwards. The goal should be to defeat liberal Republicans and help conservative Republicans. Many useful idiots on "our side" seem to want to defeat conservative Republicans and help liberal Republicans.
Here’s reality using Heritage’s numbers:
http://www.heritageactionscorecard.com//state/state?state=IL&search=
The top performer in IL is Hultgren at 74%. Roskam is number 2 at 52%, a significant drop. Kirk is the rump of the GOP at 38% (7/7). But take a look at the most conservative Democrat, Lipinski, who is at 15%.
So Kirk is 2.5 times better than the best Democrat. Durbin our other Senator comes in at 2%. So Kirk is 19 times better than the alternative.
That’s reality. Illinois, dominated by radical Chicago, is a blue, blue state. The average GOP score is 49%. So in Illinois I’ll take anybody at Kirk or better. The alternative is worse. Staying home just puts another Durbin in place.
I’ve never attacked Roberts and have had a lot of doubts about Wolf whose campaign seemed centered around being better than his cousin Obama. Roberts is rated equal to Cruz, but FReepers don’t like Roberts. Whatever.
What’s my preference? I’d love two Mike Lees and an entire delegation of Trent Franks. That’s not reality for Illinois. Can we do better?
I’d love two Ron Johnsons here in Illinois, but I don’t think that’s possible. Will I support a Johnson over a Kirk, yes, but he better be able to win in the general.