In Senate Race, the Illinois G.O.P. Is Digging Its Own Hole
By JAMES WARREN
Chicago News Cooperative
The Republican primary for President Obama’s old United States Senate seat is so consumed by closets, it should be sponsored by Bed Bath & Beyond.
Is Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican respectfully feared by the White House, gay? Amid the recession, the health care debate and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this question is the 800-pound pink elephant in the G.O.P. room.
It’s why the Illinois Republican Party, only six years after desperately airlifting Alan Keyes from Maryland to run for the Senate against Mr. Obama, risks another act of self-immolation — thanks to zealots on its right flank and Andy Martin, a bomb-throwing lightweight. The victim could be Mr. Kirk.
Mr. Martin started running radio advertisements in which he mentioned a “solid rumor” that Mr. Kirk was gay, as well as claiming that Ray True, the Lake County Republican leader, had said Mr. Kirk had “surrounded himself with homosexuals.” The mainstream news media then reported on the advertisements.
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Chicago News Cooperative
The Republican primary for President Obama’s old United States Senate seat is so consumed by closets, it should be sponsored by Bed Bath & Beyond.
Is Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican respectfully feared by the White House, gay? Amid the recession, the health care debate and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this question is the 800-pound pink elephant in the G.O.P. room.
It’s why the Illinois Republican Party, only six years after desperately airlifting Alan Keyes from Maryland to run for the Senate against Mr. Obama, risks another act of self-immolation — thanks to zealots on its right flank and Andy Martin, a bomb-throwing lightweight. The victim could be Mr. Kirk.
Mr. Martin started running radio advertisements in which he mentioned a “solid rumor” that Mr. Kirk was gay, as well as claiming that Ray True, the Lake County Republican leader, had said Mr. Kirk had “surrounded himself with homosexuals.” The mainstream news media then reported on the advertisements.
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1 Comments:
I have been waiting for the inside attacks on Kirk (and Mike Castle, the Republican candidate for Delaware's US Senate seat) from the same people that brought down DeDe in NY-23 ... both of these guys have voted for too many things that are outside of the hardcore conservative agenda ... going for the "groin" should not be a surprise.
But that's Illinois ... in Minnesota, the MN-GOP just endorsed Mike Parry to replace State Senator Dick Day in a special election ... the question that voters should ask is : Does he no longer feel Barack Obama is a "Power Hungry Arrogant Black Man" ?
My God, WHO are the Republicans today !
Watch for the next NYT article : In MN-Senate Race, Is MN-GOP Digging It's Own Hole
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