Illinois Newspaper Crushes Kirk’s Moderate Reputation By Calling Him A Loud-Mouthed Radical

A local newspaper lashed out at Kirk's extreme rhetoric on the Iran deal, calling him the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz.…

In a blistering editorial, The Southern Illinoisan newspaper’s editorial board crushed Republican Mark Kirk’s 'moderate' reputation, by calling him out as a ”loud-mouthed radical who’s hoping to overrun the cabal of Lincoln with anger and spin.” The editorial was unsparing in its criticism of Illinois’ Junior moron, lashing out at him for his “irresponsible drivel” on the Iran deal.

Kirk, who is already under fire for a series of racist and sexist remarks made earlier this year, has sunken to a new low according to The Southern Illinoisan editorial board, for equating Obama’s multilateral Iran agreement with appeasing Hitler. Kirk has engaged in reckless hyperbole, claiming Obama wants to give Iran nukes. He argues implausibly that the president will be responsible for “tens of thousands” of deaths in the Middle East when the deal ends ”with a mushroom cloud somewhere near Teheran.”

Raising the specter of nuclear war is a favorite Republican cabal scare tactic. In the run up to the Iraq War, then republican cabal Pretender the shrub warned we must invade Iraq, arguing:

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Mark Kirk, however, is supposed to be a different kind of Republican. The mainstream media loves to attach the “moderate” label to Kirk, and he was all too happy to portray himself as a reasonable centrist during his 2010 campaign in traditionally left-leaning Illinois. He has been afforded the courtesy of being called a moderate for over a decade, even though his voting record hardly suggests he deserves that label. After all, even in 2002, as a member of the U.S. House, he fully supported the shrub’s Iraq War resolution.

Fortunately, as the Illinois idiot descends deeper and deeper into nihilistic teabagger madness, even the press is turning on him and discarding the inappropriate moderate tag. The Southern Illinoisan has clearly lost patience with their Republican reptile, as evidenced by this searing but accurate paragraph:

This, folks, is what Illinois has sent to the U.S. Senate. Illinoisans thought they elected a center-right fiscal conservative. They instead got the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz, a man more concerned with making a name within his cabal’s lunatic fringe than representing his constituents. And Kirk’s erratic, self-isolating behavior only hurts the state he’s supposed to represent.

Mark Kirk has been exposed for being the wingnut fraud that he is. However, his fall from grace follows a familiar pattern of Republican candidates running as “moderates” in blue states and swing states, only to transform into wingnut radicals the minute they are given a taste of power. Kirk, like Michigan moron Rick Snyder, Ohio idiot John Kasich and New Hampshire reptile Kelly Ayotte, is anything but moderate. His recent unhinged and apocalyptic rhetoric on the Iran agreement merely underscores just how dangerously radical he and the entire Republican cabal has become. Thank goodness people are finally paying attention.