Saturday, 30 January 2010
Mark Kirk - Count Down to Un-election - Day 4 - Social Moderate and Anti-Family
By his own admission Mark Kirk has declared, "I am a Social Moderate". By the conclusion of this article you will see that not only is Kirk not a social moderate, but he has no real left-right, liberal-conservative ideology at all.
Kirk has simple latched his political career onto the Republican bandwagon and upon election thereafter proceeded to vote the dictates of his monied corporate campaign contributors.
Kirk has attempted explain what his definition of a Social Moderate is;
"As the co-chair of the Mainstream Tuesday Group, many in the press focus on Republican Moderates and their socially moderate views. We strongly believe in these issues but we are also fiscal conservatives. Over time, government spending cannot grow faster than our underlying economy that pays for public services. Last week, we debated the Deficit Reduction Act. Our Tuesday Group members made sure the bill dealt with the spending issue and not other unrelated concerns. That is why we successfully deleted proposals to open Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. It was one of the Environmental Community's biggest victories of the year. In the end, the Deficit Reduction Act reformed many automatic federal spending programs that were growing at twice the rate of the underlying economy. Given the promises we made under Social Security and Medicare, we must review other federal spending commitments to ensure we care for America's seniors. Last week, we voted to reform these other federal programs so that we will continue to afford to fulfill the promises we made under Social Security and Medicare."
Obviously little real red meat in his definition, more like a scripted for sheeple consumption on issues they hold dear.
My take on a republican social moderate is this, they are fiscally and national security conservative, but on social issues such as gay rights, ERA, abortion, tree hugging, climate change and all things green, hereafter referred to as the 'modern socialist core or MSC', they tend to side with the democrat socialist.
Does that sound like Mark Kirk to you? I can say emphatically, 'NO'.
Mark Kirk uses the issues proferred by the MSC to further his political career, I say that because of his penchant for voting the corporate line on issues where a certain Kirk campaign donor might have a vested interest. Look at my Day 11 entry entitled, "Mark Kirk, the Fattest Cat in CONgress" to see that the above MSC are only on Kirk's agenda because they put money in his campaign war chest and not because its an issue near or dear to his heart.
The unfortunate consequence of this type of behavior on the part of an elected official at a national level is that it opens our country up to the whims of the highest bidder. In Mark's case consider his vote for the 'Cap and Trade' legislation, which at it's heart is environmental. No one with a true fiscally conservative mindset would ever vote for a bill that will cost Americans what this bill will cost us and our children over the next 100 years. Conservative estimates put this at $100 Trillion, I believe now after much reflection on it, that it will be at least double.
Keep in mind Kirk also voted for bank bailouts, and millions in earmarks for his campaign donors. Does this sound like a fiscal conservative to you?
So what about Kirk's Socially moderate stances?
He voted for partial birth abortions, that's were they allow the birth to proceed, all but the head exiting the mother's birth canal. The doctor then stops the delivery at that point and grabs a long syringe or elongated sharp suction device and shoves it into the brain of the half born infant. They then proceed to suck out the brain matter until the infant is dead. The doctor then allows the infant to be born in this state, then the doctor can declare the infant still-born to protect their murdering ass.
Kirk also supports gay, lesbian and transgender rights. I've stated before that this is simply a non-issue elevated to a frantic issue by the loudest mouth on the block so as to grab back some of our freedoms and deflect the attention of conservatives away from issues of more import, like less government, less taxes, the Patriot Act and other Government usurpations. Subsequently, Kirk uses these issues to raise money and garner votes that he otherwise would accede to his democrat opponent.
We are 3 days away from voting for a truly conservative Republican candidate to fill Obama's old US Senate seat for Illinois. Do we really want to entrust that honorable chair to a man whose liberal votes and lack of fiscal accountability at the federal level have proven to be more than lacking, in fact should be considered criminal?
None dare call Kirk Progressive, but I will. In every politically bad sense of the word.
Catch all 15 articles in the Un-elect Mark Kirk Series at Mark Kirk - Count Down to Un-election - Day 15
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