is going to a more local race instead, Adam Kinzinger. Since you posted his fundraising widget, I don’t have to tell you who he is….

I’m extremely disappointed with Kirk. Although I knew he was a bit on the squishy side, I was prepared to support him in his run for the junior Illinois senate seat. Now, there’s not much difference between him and Roland Burris… I’m not going to expend any effort to help Kirk (though I’ll probably mark him for R on the ballot if he wins the primary). I will work for whoever seems likely to defeat him in the primary. If we can get a conservative on the ballot, there will be hope.

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I loathe cap and tax just as much as you Moe, but our choices in Delaware and Illinois Senate races are slim. Both Castle and Kirk opposed porkulus and both would be huge improvements over the current incumbents. Kirk has been a very positive force in the war against Islamofascism. Neither of these guys are as bad as Chaffee or Jeffords. Primary Mary Bono for sure, since we should get 90% conservative voting from that district. But it’s better to hold one’s nose when we get 50% and our odds of getting better than that are remote.

You don’t build conservative majorities with Illinois and Delaware. You pad GOP majorities, and that is helpful as long as your simultaneously pursuing conservative majorities.

When it comes to conservative majorities, we fail when we allow Lindsay Graham to slide into a South Carolina senate seat and we will fail if we don’t support Rubio in his primary battle against Crist. We need more primaries against the Don Youngs of the GOP caucus. And we especially need to hammer away at Democratic cap and taxer congressmen who represent red districts.

Not that it is from Redstate, but that a Redstate reader is supporting the candidate-so that Redstate gets the credit.

It can be helpful to donate at this time, to show encouragement and support, especially for those really tough races.

Hopefully, if Cao makes it through 2010 ( it CAN be done ),redistricting will make it easier for him. And if he does not make it, a 2012 re-match will be easier. I am doing a re-districting map of LA right now, making the 2nd District a little less democratic, by adding in parts of the 3rd and 1st districts. My only problem with adding the first is, I really don’t want to live in the 2nd district when I move home in a few years, but if it makes Cao’s election easier, hey.

Joseph Cao’s votes on cap and trade and the stimulus don’t put his electoral future in jeopardy. Joseph Cao’s electoral future is a foregone conclusion, which allows him to vote no on those two bills, despite serving one of the most liberal districts in the country. Cao is going to lose in 2010. You know it, I know it, and he knows it, which is why he can vote no when his district no doubt would prefer he vote yes. Republicans are not in a position where they can throw resources at a lost cause. Have Cao vote no on every liberal piece of legislation possible, make the Dems throw as much money in that district as you can, and then prepare for the spanking that is inevitible in a +28D district. There are plenty of ways to reward party loyalty once he’s out of office in ‘10, rather than waste money we desperately need in winable races.

Mike Castle is a very popular Republican in a very blue state and has a real shot at stealing a senate seat that we need to have to offset some of the losses we’ve suffered. Give him your twenty bucks.

Money is not flowing like it once was. The Dem machine has heavy hitters throwing money in a district where average D would beat average R by a huge margin. I like Cao an awful lot, and think he will have a place in Republican politics for a long time, but I just don’t see a scenario of him winning in ‘10 unless the dems are stupid enough to run another guy with kickback money in his freezer.

Give to Rubio. Give to Blunt. And yes, give to Castle even if he doesn’t fin your profile of a perfect candidate (by punishing Castle, you realize you’re helping a guy like mini-Biden, right? Castle can win that seat! Would you rather have a moderate or a super-lefty? Unfortunately a conservative won’t be on the ballot).

There are lots of wins to be had out there. This just ain’t one of them.

Do you think debt means they won’t throw money like crazy in the next cycle? That has nothing to do with whether or not Cao can win in ‘10.

All I’m saying is if the Dems put up a living, breathing human, it is their seat to lose. The fundraising arms are doing well, but that money is better spent on more winable elections. That’s what we need to be realistic about.

I appreciate Cao fighting the good fight, as Moe pointed out, and he should and will remain involved as time goes on. But he won in 08 with just 50% of the vote against a guy with cash in his freezer. That’s not a knock on him, that’s just a demonstration of how liberal LA-2 is.