Kirk to skip Sarah Palin fundaiser

[ccharles000]

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk won’t attend a planned state GOP fundraiser featuring Sarah Palin next month, campaign aides said today.

Kirk, a five-term North Shore congressman, sought but did not get supportive words from Palin during the Senate primary campaign. Instead of attending the May 12 fundraiser in Rosemont, Kirk will be in Washington for scheduled House votes, his campaign said.

The issue of Kirk soliciting support for Palin was a controversial one for the GOP nominee. Though Kirk cruised through a multi-candidate primary with 56 percent of the vote---his nearest challenger got 19 percent---some activists said that Kirk wasn’t conservative enough on social issues, such as abortion, to earn their support.

Last November, Kirk downplayed seeking Palin help for the primary, saying he was merely sending a memo as he does to a number of “prominent GOP people when they come into Chicago.” At the time, Palin was coming to Chicago for a taping of the "Oprah Winfrey Show."

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/04/kirk-to-skip-sarah-palin-fundaiser.html

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Could Palin teabag Kirk? The sheer physics/anatomy of this would be incomprehensible.

:evilgrin:

[bluedeminredstate]

2. She's a loose cannon

now that she has aligned herself with the teabaggers. The tide is turning against the teabaggers now that the media has taken criticism for the exessive coverage they gave this fringe mob. I bet she continues to divide her party. Not all repugs are from the Michelle Bachman wing of the party.

:applause:

[KingFlorez]

3. I smell chicken

Another Republican running from their superstars. I thought radically conservative was in?