[MikeJ75]

Money quote: "Keyes will lose in a landslide, but his candidacy will make over the Republican Party in Illinois," Thomas Roeser, a GOP analyst, said in an interview. "Keyes is serving as a purgative, driving the moderates out of the party and catching Republicans in Illinois up to the conservative revolution started by Ronald Reagan that passed over Illinois."

[Prime Choice]

"Keyes will lose in a landslide, but his candidacy will make over the Republican Party in Illinois," Thomas Roeser, a GOP analyst, said in an interview. "Keyes is serving as a purgative, driving the moderates out of the party and catching Republicans in Illinois up to the conservative revolution started by Ronald Reagan that passed over Illinois."

Here's to losing the battle and winning the war, then.

[k2blader]

Hope that analysis about the "make over" is true.

[chainsaw]

Post #1 is a bunch of gobbledygook. Lets face it Keyes shot his mouth off the first day on the campaign trail and lost the race all by himself. George Ryan can take the blame for the Republican party in Illinois.

[jnarcus]

Yeah you'll drive out the "moderates" and then Illinois will look at lot like California...a small party of purist Republicans who can win no election on their own and then grouse like mad when the Dems roll over them all the time....

[Libloather]

Obama is pro-life. That means he may have already triggered an ideological quake in Illinois RATS - eh?

[dalebert]

Obama is the darling of the press. No one would do well against him unless he does something really nutty.

[Phantom Lord]

He would become the first black male Democrat elected to the Senate

Which means, until Nov. 2nd, only black male republicans have been elected to the Senate.

[vessel]

Keyes is a man yielded to God, and thus a conduit with unfathomed potential.

[Hardastarboard]

corruption charges against a former Republican governor who faces a trial next year.

At least there is some good news coming out of Illinois - Ryan may just go to jail.

For the Keyes selection has emerged as a triumph of the conservative wing of the Republican Party in Illinois, a branch long angered by Republican moderates, as led for more than a decade by former Gov. James Thompson.

Republican moderates??? Thompson was a RINO, just like Ryan. I've long thought that the only reason he left office after three terms was to avoid being tried for corruption.

[unspun]

Money quote: "Keyes will lose in a landslide, but his candidacy will make over the Republican Party in Illinois," Thomas Roeser, a GOP analyst, said in an interview. "Keyes is serving as a purgative, driving the moderates out of the party and catching Republicans in Illinois up to the conservative revolution started by Ronald Reagan that passed over Illinois."

Well pointed out. Reagan came at the heals of Goldwater. We are taking the high ground here in Illinois and we are Reagan.

Pardon my bad German: Ich bein ien Reaganer!

Only thing, we don't really know that Keyes will lose in a landslide --or even that he will lose, for that matter. "That's why they play the game."