Marylin Musgrave, Robin Hayes, Mark Kirk, Jon Porter, Tim Walberg, Joe Knollenberg, Chris Shays, Don Young, Jean Schmidt, Bill Jefferson, and James Moran.
That's my short list.
Odd list. Why do you dislike Kirk so much? And Hayes, Porter or Knollenberg (nice old man the latter), are hardly hot button items. And Chris Shays? Is the problem that you don't like Pubbies filling "Democrat" seats?
I thought you'd notice that.
I support the Tom DeLay approach to Congressional politics. If one party can eliminate the other party's moderates, the former party will be the default party for those in the middle. That's why DeLay was so intent on exterminating (get it?) WD-40s (White Democrats over 40). The only one he missed was Chet Edwards.
Mark Kirk is politically dangerous to my party. He's a well-educated moderate from the affluent Illinois suburbs. He could someday run for the Senate or join a future Republican President's cabinet. Savvy pols like him become entrenched over time and are very difficult to defeat. If Seals can't win with Obama at the top of the ticket, we may never knock off Kirk.
Grove Norquist once said that if the unions and the trial lawyers are vanquished, the Democrats will be a balkanized party. "They could be the Weird Sex Party; they could be the Tree Hugger Party; they could be the Peace Party," said Norquist. By geographically and ideoglogically isolating the GOP, the same may happen to your Grand Old Party.
