Rep. Mark Kirk begs for Sarah Palin endorsement, but scoffs at Glenn Beck: ‘He’s a very interesting guy.’
Rep. Mark Kirk begs for Sarah Palin endorsement, but scoffs at Glenn Beck: ‘He’s a very interesting guy.’
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), who is seeking the Senate in 2010, has been running to the far right to appease his base and win the Republican primary. Kirk has been actively seeking Sarah Palin’s endorsement, hoping she will burnish his right-wing credentials. However, when ThinkProgress interviewed Kirk yesterday, he seemed tepid about accepting an endorsement from popular hate radio talker Glenn Beck:
TP: How about Sarah Palin? How close are you to getting her endorsement?
KIRK: We sent a memo detailing the race, and she’ll be coming in to Chicago shortly.
TP: How about Glenn Beck, if he offered you his endorsement, would you accept that?
KIRK: Uhh, he’s a very interesting guy. I don’t think he’s endorsing any candidate though.
TP: He endorsed Hoffman, you don’t want him to endorse you?
KIRK: So, it’s been nice seeing you.
Watch it:
Earlier this year, Kirk suggested shooting Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) because of higher taxes. After voting in support for clean energy legislation, Kirk was hounded by angry tea party protesters. Kirk then bowed to pressure, withdrawing his support for cap and trade. Despite Kirk’s lurch to the right, apparently vitriolic talkers like Beck are a bridge too far.
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BWAHAHAHA !!! So, it’s been nice seeing you.
Ben Gleck…
But seriously, if he doesn’t get Rush’s endorsement then he’s done for.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:56 pm“Earlier this year, Kirk suggested shooting Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) because of higher taxes.”
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Ah, yes — gun violence. Always at the top of the hit parade for the rabid right. This kind of talk may well get Kirk the GOP nod.
But taking the whacko line will just make it easier for any Democrat to clean Kirk’s clock in the general.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:00 pmIt’s going to be very entertaining to watch these GOP moderates trying to seduce Caribou Barbie and that ilk into an endorsement by “burnishing their conservative credentials”.
Congressional prostitution at its best. “Look at me!! Anti-abortion!! Drill, baby, drill!! Socialism!! Dirty liberals!! So do I have your endorsement?”
November 6th, 2009 at 3:04 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Kirk has been actively seeking Sarah Palin’s endorsement, hoping she will burnish his right-wing credentials
– - In the GOP Euphemism Hall of Shame you can now add burnish his right-wing credentials to “hiking the Appalachian Trail.”
November 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pmSTORM says
November 6th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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Do you have a point? Or is this just an off-topic random troll turd?
Silly me — look who I’m asking…
November 6th, 2009 at 3:10 pm“Despite Kirk’s lurch to the right, apparently vitriolic talkers like Beck are a bridge too far.”
Give him time – he’ll come around. Beckerhead is, after all, one of the leaders of the republican party.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:10 pmRep. Kirk will wish he hadn’t ask for Palin’s support it might end up just like Hoffman. Sarah is comedy relief and for men she is looked at as a sex object with no brains. Alaska saw when they needed a Govenor Sarah resigned.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:11 pmKIRK: We sent a memo detailing the race, and she’ll be coming in to Chicago shortly.
– - Not to see you Kirkie, to see Oprah.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:11 pm“Kirk has been actively seeking Sarah Palin’s endorsement, hoping she will burnish his right-wing credentials.”
Tarnish more likely.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:12 pmKirk accepted $1000 from Tony Rezko,[36][37] who has been convicted on federal charges of attempted extortion, money laundering, and fraud.[38]
Mark Kirk received a donation from Congressman Bob Ney, who pled guilty to bribery. [39] Kirk was called upon to return the tainted money. [40] Kirk refunded the Ney contribution in the 2nd quarter of 2006.[citation needed]
FEC records show Kirk received financial support from Americans for a Republican Majority, a PAC formed by Tom DeLay.[41]
November 6th, 2009 at 3:13 pmOh, he so hurt Beckerhead’s feelings, now you made is all sad, and he is gonna cry.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:13 pmI see Diaperflatulation is back as STORM
November 6th, 2009 at 3:14 pm.
It says a lot when one waits for the endorsement of a V.P. running mate that helped loose the election of a decorated War Vet running for President.
It says even more when one waits for an endorsement of a State Governor who could NOT finish her term as Governor due to too much paparazzi coverage.
But it says tons when one waits for the endorsement of a person who slandered the POTUS on National T.V. in a blatant attempt to draw coverage from her own involvement in a Separatist organization that seeks to undermine the Government of the USA.
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November 6th, 2009 at 3:14 pmRecognizing that Beck’s endorsement didn’t exactly help Hoffman at least makes Kirk a little bit brighter than the idiots at Red State and other winger blogs who think losing a seat that went Republican for over a century is a good thing. Then again, the Snowbilly make the same endorsement and Kirk can’t figure out that she is as toxic to independent voters as Beck.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:14 pmSPERM says:
November 6th, 2009 at 3:14 pmSQUIRREL!
Rep. Kirk, “What’s the status of the GOP?”
Dr. Bones, “She’s dead Jim…er…Mark. Dammit Kirk, I’m a doctor not a Diebold operator!”
…and from somewhere beyond the great unknown…
November 6th, 2009 at 3:16 pmRicardo Montelban, “KEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!”
And here I thought conservative republicans were experts at saying NO!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:17 pm“hiking the Appalachian Trail.”
Not to pick a fight, but being a distance hiker myself, it takes a good measure of fortitude and commitment to accomplish such a feat.
Something the average tenderfooted politician highly unlikely to attempt, much less complete.
The Campaign Trail is the only footpath they know, and they sit on their asses most of the time to travel that.
;)
November 6th, 2009 at 3:18 pmKirk has been actively seeking Sarah Palin’s endorsement, hoping she will burnish his right-wing credentials.”
Perhaps he doesn’t really know what ‘burnish’ means…
November 6th, 2009 at 3:19 pmHow often does one candidate have the opportunity to be endorsed by the loser vp candidate and a former gov’nr that couldn’t handle the pressure?
‘I’m not a successful politician, but I play one on TV, and I endorse Joe Blows for Dogcatcher…….’
November 6th, 2009 at 3:19 pmI see Kirk is also divorced. So much for family values.
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STORM doesnt read the links he provides.
Early last month, Caldwell’s office issued subpoenas for records from ACORN’s New Orleans office, where the organization — now moving its national headquarters to Washington — has long been based.
Today’s search is an outgrowth of those subpoenas, which stemmed from an investigation by Caldwell’s office into the embezellement of ACORN funds by Dale Rathke, a brother of the organization’s founder, Wade Rathke, Herring said.
Oops. Nothing to do with Beck.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:20 pmnoseeum says:
The Campaign Trail is the only footpath they know, and they sit on their asses most of the time to travel that.
And their ear glued to the phone extorting money from campaign contributors…just sayin!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:20 pmUnless they really wise up and realize ideological purity will ensure a permanent Democratic majority…
The teabaggers/Beck/Palin/Limbaugh would NEVER endorse Kirk. He’s pro-choice and voted for ACES, hate-crimes legislation, against the Federal Marriage Amendment, in favour of gun control legislation, voted to raise minimum wage…
In other words, he’s the kind of Republican who could win statewide election in a state like Illinois. And the kind of Republican that the teabaggers/Beck/Palin/Limbaugh seek to destroy. Who knows, maybe a “True Conservative” will enter the race.
I’m talking to you, Alan Keyes.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:20 pmRepublicans are now between a rock and a hard place. They have to do two things to get elected — win the GOP primary and win the general election. And it’s difficult to use the same persona to do both, unless you live in a bright red district (or state, if you’re running for governor or senator).
Charlie Crist is finding out that he can’t win the GOP primary in Florida by being a moderate. But he’s going to have a bigger problem winning the general by being a Palin/Bachmann type loon.
Kirk can burnish his wingnut credentials all he wants, but after winning the primary he’ll have to spin away from them so fast he’s going to get whiplash, if he wants any chance of winning the general election.
It’s fairly common for the party NOT in the White House to make gains in both houses of Congress at the midterms. Especially if one party controls both the WH and Congress. For this reason, I was expecting the GOP to make some modest gains. But just observing the way the Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot, I’m starting to wonder if they will lose even more seats in 2010.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:21 pmAll right, ED, you owe me a Coke. Haha…
November 6th, 2009 at 3:23 pmRUCerious says: …just sayin!
The only blisters they get are on their lips.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:23 pmI can see some sense in Kirk’s preferences.
Beck is a Teabagger (or “Guy-Fawker” as Colbert coined it las night) with no practical political clout.
Palin on the other hand has some functional allies in the Republican establishment.
However, Palin is obviously an undeclared Teabagger, consistent with her modus-operandi of sheer self-serving opportunism and her revulsion of doing any actual original work.
Of course Kirk’s biggest problem is that hwilst the GOP/RNC has the organizational wherewithal to support a candidate, the Teabaggers have become the most active GOP base upon which votes will depend, but they lack coherence and are an unreasonably demanding lot who hold up noisy irrationality as power–their platform and philosophy is mindless anti-establishment interference.
Kirk’s choice is to have run with the present GOP establishment ( of which Palin is presently considered a member) or run with the Teabaggers/Guy Fawkers who are spoiled ungrateful dependents who refuse to share or behave or appreciate the toys they’ve been given.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:24 pmNooo! Keep Palin out of IL!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:24 pmbringing in cut n run palin is a recipe for success…for the democrat candidate.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:26 pm“Kirk has been actively seeking Sarah Palin’s endorsement, hoping she will burnish his right-wing credentials.”
So that’s what the kids are calling it these days…
November 6th, 2009 at 3:27 pmThe Pentacostal Pork-barrel Princess of Wasilla has just opened up a whole new revenue stream with her intervention into the NY-23 contest.
She will sit on her throne in her Wasilla home that was built with ice-rink contractor kick-backs patiently awaiting supplicants from the Lower 48 seeking her blessing. After proper vetting (and being patted down for weapons and wires), they will approach Her Holiness, genuflect and kiss Pope Palin’s ring.
If deemed worthy, they will pay their $25,000 “indulgence”, arise wearing the mantle of “conservative” and armed for battle with the evil demons of liberalism and RINOhood.
It’s all kind of medieval and Crusade-y but it’s one heck of an ingenius scam. You betcha!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:28 pm“hoping she will burnish his right-wing credentials”
Uh, Kirk does know what happened to Palin’s endorsee in the NY 23rd ?
November 6th, 2009 at 3:29 pmnoseeum says: “hiking the Appalachian Trail.”
The Campaign Trail is the only footpath they know, and they sit on their asses most of the time to travel that.
Not quite, noseeum.
The Campaign Trail isn’t a footpath, it’s series of connected bus-stops and private airstrips that demand sturdy hiking-slippers and weather-vane compass to maintain the most practical moral/political bearing. :D
November 6th, 2009 at 3:31 pmWhy would anyone want Sarah Palin to endose them? Didn’t this idiot learn anything from the whole NY23 fiasco?
November 6th, 2009 at 3:33 pmI endorse Rep. Mark Kirk the Senate in 2010. He’s an interesting guy.
So, it’s been nice seeing you.
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Who cut off my feet?!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:34 pmYou’re right…excuse me, correct, 5th Estate…
November 6th, 2009 at 3:37 pmFootpath is a poor analogy.
More like a rut…
:)
There’s nothing new or special about any of this. Candidates always run towards their partisan base during midterm and off-year elections, and toward the middle on presidential election years. Hence we shouldn’t be surprised to see a bunch of Republicans acting like whacko-wing-nuts over the next 12 months. Don’t be surprised to see liberal Democrats lurching to the left, too. It will be very difficult to get anything done in Washington when primary season starts up in a couple of months.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:38 pmP.D. says: Why would anyone want Sarah Palin to endose them? Didn’t this idiot learn anything from the whole NY23 fiasco?
Learn anything from a fiasco? Surely you jest? :D
Dems are horribly slow learners, but GOPers actively oppose learning anything!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm5th@39, LOL! Very true. But at least Dems have learning cabability. Repugs believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old and Global Warming is just God’s way of giving you a big hug!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:41 pmIf Kirk is endorsed by Palin, he may as well write off most of Cook County and Chicago. The city is heavily Dem and the suburbs are mostly independents who tend to vote Dem. Kirk will have to carry the rest of the state by a large margin or a lot of Dems will have to stay home on election day. Otherwise, Quinn seems to be doing a good job and Blago is a distant memory. It will be difficult for Republicans to run against Blago. Off year elections are usually low voter turn out here in Illinois but there is a hotly contested election for the County Board which may bring out a lot of Dems in the primary and the general election. That would make it a close election.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:44 pmChoose the lunatics you want to associate with VERY carefully.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:47 pm*
P.D. says:
Why would anyone want Sarah Palin to endose them? Didn’t this idiot learn anything from the whole NY23 fiasco?
I love the typo. “Why would anyone want a dose of Palin?”
I’m not sure antibiotics will handle that one.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:51 pmMarky, she’ll get back to you right after she consults with her witch doctor.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:54 pmnoseeum says: More like a rut…:)
I have to confess about two years ago I decided if I was ever going to have a vacation again , hiking/camping was the smartest and most interesting and personally beneficial way to go.
I got a three-season tent, -15 sleeping coffin, big ass survival knife, 550 cord, titanium cooking gear, firelighter, water purification tablets, MRR’s, military medical kit et cetera et cetera.
Then I read some serious hikers blogs. Apparently there’s a lot more to it than just having good equipment! So I just stayed home and watch Man vs Wild instead. :D
November 6th, 2009 at 3:56 pm.
LOL…
Stewart spoofs Beck, weeps for his appendix
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/stewart-spoofs-beck/
Stewart at his B-E-S-T!
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November 6th, 2009 at 3:58 pm“So I just stayed home and watch Man vs Wild instead. :D”
What did you do with the titanium cooking gear?
:)
I clear trails for a living nowadays, if I’m going to hike, why not get paid for it?
November 6th, 2009 at 4:02 pmP.D. says: Repugs believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old and Global Warming is just God’s way of giving you a big hug!
Make that ‘Global Warming’ is God’s way of telling us to crank up the air-conditioning to prove we appreciate all the 6,000 year old fossil-fuel he gave the apostate Arabs so we we could then prove our faith by making the effort to righteously take it from them and thus ace HIS tests! :D
November 6th, 2009 at 4:03 pmMax Anax junius -1 says: Stewart at his B-E-S-T!
I saw that last night, and plotzed! I watched it again today. His performance deserves a Tony! Brilliant!
November 6th, 2009 at 4:06 pmThis is Illinois not South Carolina. We put Barack Obama in that seat and now this dimwit thinks Sarah Palin will help him win it. What a moron.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:10 pmnoseeum says: What did you do with the titanium cooking gear?
Still got it. Actually it was the idiot Bear Grylls who suckered me into the whole deranged notion in the first place!
It was probably a mid-life crisis thing.
Still, I am now very well prepared for homelessness which in the present economic climate is not particularly far=fetched. :D
November 6th, 2009 at 4:13 pmGrylled bear is actually quite tasty…
November 6th, 2009 at 4:15 pmI would be looking elsewhere for endorsements. By the time the election actually rolls around one will need a white hood and a swastika tattoo to capture Bible Spice’s eye and Becky will most likely be in a padded cell, eating bugs.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:27 pmBeck is a lying, uninformed drama queen. No one needs him.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pmtom says
November 6th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
She will sit on her throne in her Wasilla home that was built with ice-rink contractor kick-backs patiently awaiting supplicants from the Lower 48 seeking her blessing. After proper vetting (and being patted down for weapons and wires), they will approach Her Holiness, genuflect and kiss Pope Palin’s ring.
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Of course, this racket would be more effective if one of her endorsees actually WINS a general election. But that will probably only happen in the reddest of red states.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pmIn her new home inside the “palindrome” is a racecar.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pmPalin truly is the same backwards as forwards.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:59 pmGoing nowhere.
Kirk is from my area – he is an opportunist. He tries to be moderate, but he is a typical repugniscum — looking out for his own best interests.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:01 pmHe’s the one who went to China and told them not to believe the US, because it suited him and his party to diss the US while he was overseas. He is a phony.
Hay Slappy Bastinado – see that dark thing to your right and when you look nothing is there?
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November 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pm@32. tom says: The Pentacostal Pork-barrel Princess of Wasilla has just opened up a whole new revenue stream with her intervention into the NY-23 contest. She will sit on her (throne?) … patiently awaiting supplicants from the Lower 48 seeking her blessing. After proper vetting (and being patted down for weapons and wires), they will approach Her Holiness, genuflect and kiss Pope Palin’s ring(?)… November 6th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Almost. I suspect that what she’s sitting on and what’s being smooched is, well, judge for yourself;
Shorter Kirk; “oh please do me Sarah please do do me do me, you can be on top just do me sit on my face please please…”
More Shorter Kirk; “mama mama that nasty old GlenBeck molested me he told me bend over the couch and cover my eyes and Miss Sarah would give me a hug that nasty GlenBeck …”
November 6th, 2009 at 5:38 pmThis slimy little slug also went to Copenhagen with Lyin’ Wilson (Asshat-S. Carolina) to slander the U.S. during the G-8 conference. He comes from the same state as John (Feets don’t fail me now) Shimkus, who walked out on President Obama’s address to Congress. Why is Illinois so blessed with scumball politicians? It can’t be all Chicago’s fault, can it?
November 7th, 2009 at 12:47 amThis clown should ask Hoffman of N.Y. how much Caribou Barbie helped him,you betcha!
November 7th, 2009 at 1:45 amPeople, don’t be fooled by yet another “puppet” of the Republican Party. The RP, especially the F-A-R rightwingers…pray on un-intelligent, weak minded constituents. Are you one of those? The RP is not for the people, they have proven they do not know the meaning of democray, which our founders of this great country would cringe witnessing such display of degarding character to politics. The RP has become supportive, in a grand way, of fear mongering, discrimination to the fullest, and out right treasonous statments…my personal opinion….and getting by with it. Asking for Palin to come to Illinois, especially Cook County??!!!!! Good luck on that one…Kirk, you have just signed your political death sentence. I’m from downstate IL and read about IL political figures every day in an excellent blog we have available. The author is very! unbiased and is refreshing to read. Kirk!! YOU! are as big a joke as Glen Beck. Sad, very sad, that you can not think for yourself, be a stand-up guy…nope…your a wanna-be = Puppet On A String. You obviusly don’t have your constituents concerns at heart.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:59 amSTORMfront the ignorant brainwashed troll goes on another tangent trying to derail another thread. Just FO you racist ignorant pile of dogshit
November 9th, 2009 at 12:09 am