Posted on 10/30/2010 9:11:01 PM PDT by Maelstorm
CHICAGO– Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk is just one of several Republicans running in down-to-the-wire races, but unlike his compatriots is enjoying mixed support from his party's fundraising arms.
The North Shore congressman has pulled into a narrow lead over Democratic Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias in the campaign's final week, according to the latest poll from the Chicago Tribune. But Kirk's three point lead falls within the poll's margin of error.
Kirk has been left out in many fundraising conservative circles.
The Senate Conservatives Fund has raised more than $5.4 million for candidates in the nation's most competitive senate races, with the exception of Illinois.
Matt Hoskins, a spokesman for the fund, would not comment on the matter. But the organization's website lists requirements of candidates, some of which the pro-choice, pro-gun control Kirk does not meet.
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Well that is just great. Chuck Shumer on Earth or the Devil in Death.....I can’t believe you so called Christians want people to sell their soul for the short term. VERY SAD. Do you not know that it is a sin to support abortion lovers????? You are better than that.
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Excellent points.
BUMP what you said.
I agree 100%.
Additionally, a Kirk win would send out a message to other liberal Republicans that, “It’s okay to be a liberal Republican,” and the lame old excuse, “Only a liberal Republican can win in __________” would get new life. Yeah, this scumbag Kirk MUST lose. It WOULD be preferable for the rat to win in this case.
Kirk is on his own as far as my vote is concerned. I cannot vote for someone who thinks sucking brains out of babies is OK. If I did, it would be a sin to me. I mean that quite literally. We can’t keep rewarding Illinois’ “weasely wepublican” machine and then act all surprised when nothing improves for decades at a time.
Sometimes you have no choice. Besides, your vote is yours to flush. It’s part of that freedom thingy, or so I’m told. I’m not voting for Kirk because I can’t vote against all those babies he is helping to kill. It’s not my fault so many Illinois Republicans are so in bed with “progressivism.”
It’s a question of short term expediency versus long term learning. Electoral systems are a feedback mechanism critical to the survival of the Republic. We use them to reward wise and good leaders and to punish foolish and evil leaders. When the feedback becomes distorted through an exaggerated sense of urgency, when panic distorts our judgment and we start rewarding the evil and punishing the good, the feedback mechanism is corrupted and we end up lying to the system, which in turn creates these bizarre result we are now seeing, where an insular political class learns it can become totally independent of the feedback as long as it can manipulate our fears.
Therefore, the truly expedient thing to do is start telling the truth to the system, to provide truthful feedback that accurately represents the collective wisdom of the people, not the least of which is our commitment of conscience to the principles of our founding, namely, that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness really are inalienable, and cannot be surrendered under any circumstances to the whims of kings and other tyrants.
A vote for Kirk, if cast by someone who alleges to be prolife, is a lie told to the Republic, and a denial of the foundational principles from which all other freedoms flow. If we don’t start voting the truth, we have no reason to expect the Republic to ever “learn” the truth, that no freedom is safe when life is cheap.
Well said. 8 years ago I would have agreed with you completely and p***** my vote away on this Labno person. These, however, are fairly extraordinary circumstances.
So Kirk has already gotten 2 votes from our household in order to try to provide the Republicans with a solid majority in the Senate.
This time, however, will be the last time I make such a decision. If the Pubs blow it this time, I’m done with them for good.
I do thank you for a well reasoned and polite response.
Good luck.
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If you vote for Labno, it’s more likely that Alexi will win. If Alexi wins, that’s more power to the rats. More power to the rats means more unborn die.
It’s the same reason people are dropping out of the NRA. The NRA is supporting a total of some 85 rats because they have good voting records when it comes to guns. But supporting them, if they win, gives more power to the rat platform of gun-grabbing. By the way, if all the House candidates that the NRA are supporting were to win, we will not take back the House.
Letting a rat win over the abortion issue is no different. When you vote for a rat or throw your vote away on someone who can’t win, you enhance the power and control of the very platform you least want to embrace.
We went through this in ‘06 and ‘08. Wasn’t getting zero, Pelosi and Reid enough of a lesson for you? Isn’t 17% unemployment high enough for you? How about the 3 trillion in debt? Want more? Yeah? Really? Then, yeah, go throw your vote away on Labno so Giannoulias wins. That’ll really save a lot unborn babies. /sarc
Enough with the calculus already. I get that part. But being true to my conscience is more important to me, and really, if you thought about it, to you too. The Apostle Paul taught we should never do evil in order to do good. The ends do not justify the means. As long as America is free, I will not ever use my vote for anyone who is OK with killing babies and, by extension, is OK with destroying the foundations of the Republic. You’re free to engage in short-term triangulation if it suits you, but in the case of Kirk I can’t go there without sinning against God. I can’t help it if the dems outnumber me in any given election cycle; they’re responsible for their vote and I’m responsible for mine. But if the Republicans Party of Illinois is serious about wanting my vote, they’ll have to do a better job fielding candidates that do not put me at odds with the Almighty.
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