Posted on 11/14/2009 8:50:44 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Despite his recent request for help from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and renouncing his past support of prominent environmental legislation, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk on Wednesday denied he is moving to the right to try to coalesce support in the Feb. 2 primary election.
"I think I am who I am," Kirk, a member of the Naval Reserve, told reporters after a Veterans Day ceremony at the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Medical Center in Chicago.
"I am a social moderate, fiscal conservative. But this is a big race, and we are building a broad coalition, and it will be, for a Republican candidacy, a center-right coalition," said Kirk, a five-term North Shore congressman who is seeking a promotion to the Senate next year. "But for me, I haven't changed my views."
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please please please....give us some alternative to Mark Kirk, now that we “locked-in-a-blue-state” Illinois conservatives might actually have a chance to get someone who isn’t a Chicago Democrat elected.
Just please some alternative to yet another RINO.
I take it Sarah said no to the endorsement.
Oh no you're not, Congressman. Maybe voting in lockstep with NARAL 100% of the time, even in favor of partial birth abortion, is "socially moderate" on your planet, but back here on earth it's the extreme left-wing end of the political spectrum. That's why 80% of the public disagrees with you on that. And certainly there's nothing "fiscally conservative" about you supporting the $700 billion TARP bailout package last year, cosponsoring Pelosi's minimum wage scheme that exempted businesses in her own district, and being one of only eight Republicans passing the largest tax increase in history, Cap n' Trade.
Congressman, you would have to move significantly to the right before you become a "social moderate, fiscal conservative" politician.
But you are correct about one thing - you're the same Mark Kirk you've always been and have no intention of moving right. All the "anti-Obama" stuff you're pretending to support now is just a ploy to make it past the primary. After February, you'll go back to being a good little lap dog for the Democrats like you've been for the last nine years.
I believe there will be unparalleled cooperation in fielding a single, “best conservative” candidate to oust Kirk. He is on our radar. Camouflage will not help. We know who he is. Let the great RINO extinction of 2010 begin ...
I have no more faith in Mark Kirk than I do his IL constitutents.
Starve the Rinos....make them extinct!
I don’t live in his congressional district (in my region of the state, even the local DEMOCRAT officials are more conservative than Kirk!), but I’m glad he’s running statewide so I can finally vote against treasonous RINO Mark Kirk in February.
Beam Kirk Out......
{{{sigh}}} My idiot Rep.
That’s the answer we were looking for Mark. The vote against the Health Care Scam and for the Stupak Amendment were for show.
Once your a Senator you go back to normal voting patern. Pat Hughes, Don Lowery, John Arrington or Kathleen Thomas will be the candidates for Conservatives to vote.
Proud Republican Main Street Partnership Elected member of Congre$$ (Soros approved)
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This list is shrinking but not fast enough.
Rep. Kirk should say that he’s fiscally liberal and socially liberal. Yesterday, I heard him give a speech. A few minutes later, I heard Andy Martin say, “I’m conservative. I wasn’t for cap & trade before I was against it.”
Yep. Obama fund-raiser Tony Rezko was instrumental in helping Kirk get elected to Congress too, donating thousands to him.
Of course the liberal Chicago media elites (Sun-Times, Tribune, Daily Herald, NBC, CBS, ABC) that worship Obama always tout Kirk as a GOP role model and he's the LONE Chicago area "Republican" candidate for Congress they routinely endorse.
All the Republicans yapping about how "important" it is to "take back Obama's Senate seat" should be asking themselves why Obama's top allies in the media and business world are rooting for "Republican" Kirk to win this one, INSTEAD of the tainted Chicago machine Democrat in the race.
Not for long. The prospects for a big improvement in your representation hing on whether or not RINO Beth Coulson wins the GOP primary.
We have reached the end of our rope here in New England. We need political counseling fast, very fast.
I am not moving one inch forward until I here from qualified counselors.
Illinois sure is like New England, ain’t it ? Party-killing RINO leftists infesting the GOP.
you are a professional, yongin. See previous post. Where do we go from here? (Those of us who waking from our post-NY23 coma.)
New England is a piece of cake compared to ILL.
Is there any realistic hope somebody can come along and knock this scumbag off in the primary.
MASS Senate race ... Jan 19th. Hard to see that race not being dullsville.
MASS is 10 C.D.’s ... too big an area to make a difference and all the action is in Boston, not in my area. Western Mass is filled with these little towns that look like Mayberry RFD. If you sit outside the General Store ... all these young liberals are running in and out. “What happened to the normal people that used to live in this town?”, is what I wonder.
There’s normal people in MA, but too many are disengaged because there’s no two party system there. It’s like the Deep South prior to the 1950s. You had Whites of the same mindset and you had disenfranchised Blacks that made up a decent chunk of the population, forever at the mercy of a group of people that hated their guts. Just like the remaining normal people in MA, those Blacks were Republicans, too. Taking back the GOP is imperative, but as long as Socialists run it and maintain it like a boneyard, things will never change.
The odd thing is that the 4 towns I am going to be working ... Scott Brown will win them all. The cities just overwhelm the suburbs. Springfield, Mass is a nightmare.
The best candidate, in the Illinois U.S. Senate primary, is Don Lowery. He’s conservative, and, unlike Hughes, Lowery has held elective office. He was a judge and a state’s attorney. Lowery is pro-tax cuts, pro-spending cuts, pro-gun rights, and anti-illegal alien.
excellent, glad there is a Lowery fan.
Is he pro-victory on primary day?
There is a guy running out here with the same postions, but he has assured everyone that he has no interest in putting together a winning coalition. That is why I ask.
Yes, I think that every candidate is pro-victory on primary day.
no, many of them here have no intention of having a winning coalition. Pipe Dream Candidates.
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