-By Warner Todd Huston
Former GOP candidate for president and highest profile Republican Senator, John McCain (R, AZ), appeared in town this weekend to stump for Mark Kirk’s Senatorial campaign.
McCain appeared side-by-side with Representative Kirk in Glenview on Sunday.
Now, I suppose that if you want to make a wild guess, you can feel sanguine that the national party has decided who it is going to endorse in this upcoming GOP primary here in the Land of Lincoln. This, of course, is a boon for Mark Kirk, but not very good for the Illinois GOP that should have been given more space to feel out its own candidates for its own representation in the fight to fill Senator Roland Burris’ ill-gotten seat.
There is a plethora of candidates coming forward to face the Democrats in 2010. Kirk is not the only one. But, if the bigwigs in Washington have their way, it seems that the others aren’t even going to be given a chance to make a dent before the national folks stampede for Kirk.
Nationally, Americans are beginning to again trust Republicans over Democrats on taxes and the economy. The overreach in spending and the constant Democratic drum beat of wanting to raise taxes on “the rich” to pay for a massive enlargement — and engorgement, really — of big government has dug into the high approval rates that Democrats had enjoyed for well over a year. So, what do the kindly folks in the national Republican Party want to do in Illinois? They want to quickly run to support a man that voted for Cap and Tax.
In a time when the GOP could be seeing a turn of the electorate for conservative ideas, the national party wants to support a mushy moderate that saw no reason not to vote for one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation for a generation!
Good going, Senator McCain. But, I’d ask you to stay out of our party business until WE have decided who will be our candidate.
(Cross posted at RedCounty.com.)
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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I’m not sure this is really going to help Kirk in the long run. He’s already torpedoed himself with his capntrade vote. Yeah, he’s OK on some issues, but he comes perilously close to the RINO category in many other issues. I really hope we can come up with a true conservative for the GOP for this seat.