Holy crap, I LOVE that response. I nearly got a clerkship (law clerk) with Keating, but his nomination as a judge to the 10th Circuit never went through because Democrats. :)
Watching that sideshow of a NON-campaign after McQueeg was nominated (it wasn’t until later I realized that McQueeg was there to play the role of loser, which was almost botched when he put Palin on the ticket, until the RINOs and media went to work on her), I remember seeing Gov. Keating on a news program where he was exhibiting the kind of passion you were supposed to see from, y’know, a bonafide Presidential candidate.
Keating was flabbergasted that the party and McQueeg were doing nothing with the mountain of evidence that could keep Zero out of the White House (mentioning that he’d been the agent in charge of pursuing the very people, the domestic terrorists, who had mentored and recruited Zero to run for office). After watching him, I told my father, “THAT’S who should be our nominee !”
Of course, we know now that the “arrangement” between the corrupt uniparty is each establishment wing gets their 8 years on and off, unless an outsider manages to get the nomination, in which case they get destroyed by both sides. It’s a nice little arrangement. The insiders maintain control, and America and the people circles down the drain.