The world will be a sorrier place for your absence.

He’ll be missed. Condolences to his family.

And my condolences to his family.

That’s about all I can say. :sigh:

Thanks for all the great round ups Mark…save me a spot up there.

I will miss him.

I have no words except:

Mark, thank you for everything you did here. I read almost every word you wrote, faithfully each week, sometimes commenting and sometimes not, and I was amazed that anyone healthy could do it so well and so consistently, week in and week out. That someone with throat cancer could do it so well was immensely inspiring and humbling to me. I will miss you every day. All that I can say is that I will try to do a better job in memory of the example you set for all of us.

May God be with your family and may you find that in Heaven, the talk shows are recorded on the Cosmic TiVo, and up-to-the-minute digests of what is said is not so important.

Note to the Directors: about a week ago I offered to help. I know I’m nowhere near as good as Mark was, but I’ve had a long time to learn and the benefit of dozens of his examples. If you need someone to try to fill his shoes, I can offer to do at least one of the shows. My digests won’t be as good as Mark’s were, but if I limit myself to a single show I think I can at least try to approximate his skill.

Godspeed, Mark. Reading your column each week was something I almost never missed, and it was the only thing that I can say I enjoyed about the Sunday Morning shows.

Mark will be the featured guest on Tim Russert this Sunday to discuss why the Steelers pwn the Bills. Ronald Reagan will drop by the show in the second half hour.

At least, that’s how I’ll be picturing it. RIP, friend.

This comes as a shock to me. I remember a few weeks ago his roundup of the talk shows seemed a little weird. I looked for his roundup this past week, as I always appreciated his humor and comments, and I missed not seeing them. I am very saddened by the news of his death. Rest in God’s Peace Mark, and my condolences to the family.

just why I visit this ste so much. Ill miss him.

You inspired us all.

… there’s been less reason to follow the Sunday shows, and therefore less reason (for me, anyway) to read Mark’s stuff.

I’m with Dan, I guess. There’s a cosmic symmetry putting those two men in the same place. We don’t know how Heaven works, exactly, but maybe they get to hang out there…

Best wishes to his family and all who never met, but knew Mark.

Our world is poorer and Heaven is richer.

RIP, and thanks.

Mark will be missed. My prayers are with Diane and the family.

I hope too in the next…

Thank you for all that you did, for all that you were and all that you are to be.

Rest now Mark… the battle is won.

This one hurts.

But cancer hurts worse. Thank you, Lord, for giving us Mark.

Mark will now be writing his Sunday News Show Reviews for “redstate.heaven”. God won’t have to waste his time watching the Sunday News shows, so He’lll have more time to help with the problems in this world.

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Every weekend you gave me a laugh with your witty insight of each show. My prayers are with your family.

One of my weekly rituals is to check Mark’s recap of the Sunday morning talk shows. I will miss doing that.

God bless Mark and his family.

I looked forward every Sunday afternoon to reading Mark. He leaves a small hole in my life. I can only imagine his loss to those who knew him so much better.

Prayers for his family. There is rejoicing in Heaven but we still feel cheated. Save us a front row seat Mark. We miss you now, we’re looking forward to seeing you again.

with his family and he was one of the best.

Mark, I’ll see you in awhile, my brother.

Sometimes to a point where he faded into the background when other things capture the attention. I knew something was off or missing and it wasn’t until I read this article that I realized what I’ve been missing and will now miss forever.

My condolences to his family and friends. I hope it brings some small comfort to know that he impacted profoundly many of us who barely knew his name but still followed his articles.

Prayers go out to his family. Their loss is immensely greater than ours.

Mark, we’ll miss you greatly.

God Bless him and his family. May the Lord grant him eternal life and comfort. May all who miss Mark dearly know his separation is merely temporary and one day they will be rejoined in God’s glorious Kingdom.

I loved his writing and eagerly awaited his Sunday afternoon column.

I hate cancer. It has taken so many wonderful people.

Mark was a great person, a great writer, and you felt privileged to know him. God bless and our prayers to his family and friends.

… and prayers for you and yours.

You’re going to be missed.

Godspeed.

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NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”

May he rest in peace. One of the greatest things about knowing God is the realization that when someone like Mark dies, he will forever walk with the Lord. While it doesnt take away the pain we all feel, its comforting to know he’s in a wonderful place.

My prayers go out to his family. I dont know his situation, but if there is any fund set up for his family please count me in. For all he did for us here, for his wonderful recaps of the Sunday shows which freed the rest of us up to do other things rather than sit through them all, we thank you.

Reading Mark’s round-up of the talk shows was the only way I could deal with them. I appreciated his summaries and effort to keep us informed. Only recently learned that he was ill-what an unselfish man- to continue trying to give to all of us.

Thank you Mark. May you rest in peace with God and the angels. May your family be comforted by those near and far. Tears blur my vision.

Rest in peace, Mark. You fought the good fight and we are all fortunate to have known you.

I didn’t know Mark well (my loss more than his, of course) - only through his writing. But I will tell you this - even when he would simply post a comment to one of my diaries, I felt honored. And when his comment agreed with even a point or two I was trying to make, I felt a sense of vindication.

One thing we agreed on was that social conservatives and libertarian Republicans need to stop beating each other up and join together in the fight for the principles we have in common.

I will continue my efforts to see that happen. Mark has always been an inspiration, but I will renew my dedication in his memory.

I pray that God above, who now rejoices in Mark’s company, will comfort his family during this most difficult of times for them.

- JP

and welcome Mark to Paradise.

I hope he is in a better place. Condolences to his family.

And let perpetual light shine upon him.
May he rest in peace. Amen.

(crying)…..we love you Mark….

Mark, God Bless. My condolences to his family and friends.

And my condolences to his family.

We’ve lost another one of the good guys.

Socialism doesn’t work. It looks nice on paper, but it’s been tried and it’s failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.

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I will miss reading his work greatly. My sincere condolences to his family.

Goodbye and thank you.

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Ditto to what everyone else has already said. His insights are missed here already.

Try not to laugh too hard at what us knucklehead mortals are trying to do down here. I’ll miss one my earliest RedState memories, your weekly skewering of the Sunday talking heads/guests.

P.S. Don’t skewer the big guy (not Obama, the “real” big guy)

Like the rest of you, I always looked forward to reading the Sunday recap from Mark. As much as we will miss him, it’s his family that I pray for now.

And for anyone else who’s considering trying to do what he did, a word of warning: It’s long been my suspicion that watching that stuff every week is toxic to the health of anyone who attempts it. That Mark Kilmer did it as long as he did is a testimony to the man’s strength of spirit. He is irreplaceable.

Being so sad about the passing of someone I’ve never met in person is a testimony to the strength of our Redstate group that you helped build. RIP.

But I share with you the last paragraph of the Chronicles of Narnia, because it is CS Lewis’ impression of what it might be like:

And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventurs in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which on one on Earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

Now excuse me while I get a tissue.

Mark Kilmer was a unique individual and a faithful, profoundly devoted Christian. I miss his emails. I miss the sense of celebration I had when I thought he had recovered.

More important than all of this, though, is my sense of pride at having shared this man’s faith and outlook on life. I would stand by this man in anything. His moral and spiritual compass pointed true north.

One of my greatest regrets is that I never got the chance to personally tell Mark how much his words and his friendship meant to me. When he’d compliment something I wrote, I always felt myself beaming. He was one of those remarkable people whose wit and maturity can make you feel like a child in comparison — not out of any intent or meanness on his part, but because he was such a wonderful, developed person that by contrast you always felt yourself wanting.

We’re impoverished for his loss. God rest his soul.

Being a newbie here at RS, I don’t have much interaction with Mark.

But as Erick’s relaying, Mark’s is one of the greatest RS Warriors. As such, Thank you Mark for your contributions in bring RS to my home.

May you find rest and happiness in God’s presence.

There’s a lot of things that just don’t make sense about our world. This is one of them.

I can only put my trust that God is weaving it all together in a fabric we cannot yet grasp from the underside where we now live, but that we will some day when we can look at it from the other side.

As hard as it can be to lose someone you love to age way too many of use know what it’s like to lose someone to cancer.
I’ll miss Mark’s words and wit and my life was enriched, in no small measure, by his life and his choice to share a part of it with us.
Mark, his family and loved ones will be in my prayers and I’ll pray that He helps ease the pain and hardship in Mark’s passing.

Intro to Federalist Papers; section 5;
paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”

I’m an embarrassment to Barack!

I only scored 17 on the Obama Test

I feel much as TCrown does. I remember getting a kick out of the one time he let me know he was linking to me at Rathergate.

He always hit the issue of press bias with more dedication and intensity than I ever could manage, and I’ll miss that.

But I also got to know him to a degree, and certainly not enough of a degree, during my time behind the scenes at Red State. Never petty, always in control. He was an adult among adults, and I’ll miss him, too.

I relied on Mark’s Sunday Show Review. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. RIP, Mark, and Godspeed.

Thanks, Erick, for putting up a post, and thanks to everyone for their kind words. It’s hard to even get my mind around a loss like this - especially since it happened so fast - but it is comforting to sit here and read the comments, and imagine Mark’s reaction.

Throughout his bout with throat cancer, Mark found comfort in God. Though his determination to live was unflagging during his recovery, he never questioned or lost faith. On the rare occasion when he talked about the possibility that he might die, he would say, “Whatever the Lord wants.” Mark has been through a lot in his life - a lot more than most people know about. To come through it with that sort of faith is simply unfathomable to me.

I will miss a lot of things about Mark, but the thing I’ll miss most is his sense of humor. Like Erick, I imagined that once in heaven, he’d be off to see Bach. But to Saint Peter at the gates, I imagine him saying, with his lopsided grin, “I didn’t even eat the mousse!”

My prayers for his family.

My prayers for his family.

Mark’s recaps were always highly enjoyable and often times downright funny. I especially enjoyed Mark’s barbs at Jim Webb and Bob Casey Jr. and which of the two truly deserved the title of “Dumbest Man in the United States Senate”.

All my thoughts and prayers are with his family.

Mark’s recaps were always highly enjoyable and often times downright funny. I especially enjoyed Mark’s barbs at Jim Webb and Bob Casey Jr. and which of the two truly deserved the title of “Dumbest Man in the United States Senate”.

All my thoughts and prayers are with his family.

Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever. Psalm 23:6

Say hello to my mama for me. She’s the bossy one with the southern drawl.

You will be sorely missed.

Our Prayers for your family.

ever watch those idiots for a minute and now a true man of Steele (it takes that to watch the other side) is gone…..I am so sad and my prayers go out to his family.

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

I would like to add my prayers for Mark’s family.
I am a recent addition as a contributor to RS and was honored to join great writers like Mark on the team. I was a huge fan of his “1 Man, 5 Shows” round up and never missed a post. I listen to podcasts of some of the Sunday shows and DVR some of them, yet inevitably checked RS to read Mark’s spin to put them all in perspective. I never met Mark, but was an avid reader of his posts.
We have lost so many conservative warriors over the past few weeks. Jim Boulet of English First and Paul Weyrich’s sudden passing were also a shock over the past few weeks. Mark will be missed. I join RS readers in expressing sadness. Rest in peace Mark.

And, condolences to Mark’s family. I can’t imagine what they’re going through right now, and I pray that God will comfort them as only he can.

in this difficult time

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with the lord and his cast of thousands.
RIP

You’ll be surely missed…

He will be missed greatly

It came as a complete shock

It will not be the same without Mark.

Like so many others, I am indebted to Mark for his insight and wit…his was one of my favorite features of RedState. Diane and family, please know you are all in our prayers. May God strengthen and comfort you all!

With the Saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of your servant Mark, where there is no pain, nor sorrow, nor suffering, but life everlasting.

Prayers for your family. You’ll be missed. God Bless.

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I often wondered how he managed to sit through all those lying Democrats and fawning interviewers with kicking in the screen. A man is known by the company he keeps and Mark raised all of us here on that scale.

Mark, and you will see us, here, flying the missing man formation. But not for long. Before next Sunday we will be even stronger. We don’t look back forever, only just enough to realize what we have and shoulder the lance again.

Our days are appointed by the Lord, but we often control the quality of those days.

Make tomorrow a good day.

CHOOSE to make tomorrow a good day … in memory of Mark and the others who have gone on before us.

Our days are appointed by the Lord, but we often control the quality of those days.

Make tomorrow a good day.

CHOOSE to make tomorrow a good day … in memory of Mark and the others who have gone on before us.

Thank you for entertaining me through the years Mark. Although I never knew you personally… I can tell I would have been a better man if I did. My sincere condolences to the friends and family of this great man.