Republican Party—an open letter to the National and State of Illinois Republican Party
The maneuvering for those who desire or may desire to run for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in 2010 has begun. An article that recently appeared in the Peoria Journal Star (June 9, 2009, page B3) was about a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives who was thinking about running for the U.S. Senate but who decided not to run—rather she is planning to seek reelection to the House.
I have no concern on whether or not she runs for the Senate and normally would not deal with this article. However, one paragraph in the article is significant and that paragraph I will address.
The paragraph declared that “Republicans have yet to offer a candidate, but U.S. Representative Mark Kirk is mulling a run. National Republicans say they are optimistic he could make the race competitive.”
My response: Are they crazy? When the Republican Party moved away from “values” issues in 2006 and 2008, they lost elections! The Republicans in 2006 nominated a “RINO”—Republican In Name Only—for governor in Illinois and lost badly to a governor who has since been removed from office.
She supported the immoral homosexual agenda including “civil unions” and an increased reliance on gambling for revenue and lost the necessary support of conservative Republicans from downstate. Democrats are not going to support a RINO and conservative Republicans will NOT support a RINO in sufficient numbers to offset the Democratic Chicago area. It was an invitation for another unnecessary loss at the polls.
Earlier, I was involved in the first attempt by conservatives to place an amendment into the Illinois Constitution to define marriage as between only a man and a woman. According to reports I read, black Christians in the Chicago area were actively involved in gathering signatures to encourage the General Assembly to place the amendment on the ballot even though these same black Christians tend to overwhelming support Democratic candidates. Where was the Republican Party? NOWHERE to be found. The Party was conspicuous in its absence.
By ignoring this major “values” issue, the Republican Party missed an opportunity to increase the number of conservative voters going to the polls for the general election and an opportunity to work with Black Christians who, in reality, have much more in common with conservative Republicans than with libertine Democrats. Quite simply, the Republican Party squandered an opportunity to reverse their fortunes in Illinois. They blew it!
By nominating Mark Kirk as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in 2010, the Party will again demonstrate that they just don’t get it! A Republican will NOT win in Illinois by acting like a Democrat.
Is Mark Kirk acting like a Democrat? He is as far as I’m concerned. Before the 2008 Presidential election, I said that the three major issues were 1) the MURDER of unborn babies, 2) the sin of homosexual behavior and specifically granting homosexual behavior special “rights” such as the ability to marry, and 3) appointments to the U.S. courts. All three of those issues are just as relevant and just as important today.
I don’t know where Mark Kirk stands on two of those three issues but I do know his stance on the third. I WILL NOT support any Republican who does NOT agree on ALL three and I believe that the same is true for many other conservative voters.
Mark Kirk voted for legislation in the House of Representatives to include homosexual behavior as a protected status in the “hate crimes” bill that passed the House. (See my post of May 9th—“Hate crimes,” part 5 and “Hate crimes” and the vote of Illinois’ members of the House of Representatives, part 6 posted on May 11th.) In fact, Mark Kirk was a co-sponsor of the legislation.
Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R)—YEA
HR 1913 Co-sponsor
10th Congressional Dist.Washington
Phone: 202-225-4835
District Phone: 847-940-0202
Webform
That one action is sufficient to tell me he does NOT understand or accept the immorality involved in homosexual behavior. Or he does and he doesn’t care! Either way he will neither get my support nor vote and I, along with others, will work for his defeat. A RINO Republican is NO better than a libertine Democrat. Just examine the history of Arlen Specter—Pennsylvania U.S. Senator—who was a Democrat, who turned to the Republican Party, who is now again a Democrat although elected to the Senate as a Republican to understand the impropriety of supporting RINO’S.
NO RINO’S in State government and certainly NO RINO’S in Congress. It just doesn’t work.
The maneuvering for those who desire or may desire to run for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in 2010 has begun. An article that recently appeared in the Peoria Journal Star (June 9, 2009, page B3) was about a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives who was thinking about running for the U.S. Senate but who decided not to run—rather she is planning to seek reelection to the House.
I have no concern on whether or not she runs for the Senate and normally would not deal with this article. However, one paragraph in the article is significant and that paragraph I will address.
The paragraph declared that “Republicans have yet to offer a candidate, but U.S. Representative Mark Kirk is mulling a run. National Republicans say they are optimistic he could make the race competitive.”
My response: Are they crazy? When the Republican Party moved away from “values” issues in 2006 and 2008, they lost elections! The Republicans in 2006 nominated a “RINO”—Republican In Name Only—for governor in Illinois and lost badly to a governor who has since been removed from office.
She supported the immoral homosexual agenda including “civil unions” and an increased reliance on gambling for revenue and lost the necessary support of conservative Republicans from downstate. Democrats are not going to support a RINO and conservative Republicans will NOT support a RINO in sufficient numbers to offset the Democratic Chicago area. It was an invitation for another unnecessary loss at the polls.
Earlier, I was involved in the first attempt by conservatives to place an amendment into the Illinois Constitution to define marriage as between only a man and a woman. According to reports I read, black Christians in the Chicago area were actively involved in gathering signatures to encourage the General Assembly to place the amendment on the ballot even though these same black Christians tend to overwhelming support Democratic candidates. Where was the Republican Party? NOWHERE to be found. The Party was conspicuous in its absence.
By ignoring this major “values” issue, the Republican Party missed an opportunity to increase the number of conservative voters going to the polls for the general election and an opportunity to work with Black Christians who, in reality, have much more in common with conservative Republicans than with libertine Democrats. Quite simply, the Republican Party squandered an opportunity to reverse their fortunes in Illinois. They blew it!
By nominating Mark Kirk as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in 2010, the Party will again demonstrate that they just don’t get it! A Republican will NOT win in Illinois by acting like a Democrat.
Is Mark Kirk acting like a Democrat? He is as far as I’m concerned. Before the 2008 Presidential election, I said that the three major issues were 1) the MURDER of unborn babies, 2) the sin of homosexual behavior and specifically granting homosexual behavior special “rights” such as the ability to marry, and 3) appointments to the U.S. courts. All three of those issues are just as relevant and just as important today.
I don’t know where Mark Kirk stands on two of those three issues but I do know his stance on the third. I WILL NOT support any Republican who does NOT agree on ALL three and I believe that the same is true for many other conservative voters.
Mark Kirk voted for legislation in the House of Representatives to include homosexual behavior as a protected status in the “hate crimes” bill that passed the House. (See my post of May 9th—“Hate crimes,” part 5 and “Hate crimes” and the vote of Illinois’ members of the House of Representatives, part 6 posted on May 11th.) In fact, Mark Kirk was a co-sponsor of the legislation.
Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R)—YEA
HR 1913 Co-sponsor
10th Congressional Dist.Washington
Phone: 202-225-4835
District Phone: 847-940-0202
Webform
That one action is sufficient to tell me he does NOT understand or accept the immorality involved in homosexual behavior. Or he does and he doesn’t care! Either way he will neither get my support nor vote and I, along with others, will work for his defeat. A RINO Republican is NO better than a libertine Democrat. Just examine the history of Arlen Specter—Pennsylvania U.S. Senator—who was a Democrat, who turned to the Republican Party, who is now again a Democrat although elected to the Senate as a Republican to understand the impropriety of supporting RINO’S.
NO RINO’S in State government and certainly NO RINO’S in Congress. It just doesn’t work.
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