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KEYES PLANNING TO RUN! (Accepts GOP IL Senate Bid)
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 8/05/4 | Scott Fornek

Posted on 08/05/2004 7:50:40 PM PDT by gopwinsin04

Let the debates begin.

Former Presidential hopeful Dr. Alan Keyes has told Illinois Republicans that he would accept their request to take on Democrat Barack Obama in the US Senate race.

Members of the Republican State Central Committee insisted that the former radio and television commentator make the promise to run before they would give him the nod Wednesday night, sources told the Chicago Sun Times on Thursday.

The Republicans were leery of voting to give Keyes the nomination without some guarantees.

So he went back into the room and bascially said, 'If you offer, than I will accept.'

Another GOP source said that Keyes had agreed to accept the nomination but told the committee that he wanted to wait until he could publicly announce it at a 'campaign style' rally on Sunday.

'He told them that he would do it,' the source said. 'he just wanted to take a few days to put things together and make his announcement.'

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


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To: nopardons

Yes, you did insult me and others last night (Yes, I was a McClintock voter). I was trying to kid with you in return. You took it worse than it was intended.


81 posted on 08/05/2004 9:42:21 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: nopardons
Just ignore him.


82 posted on 08/05/2004 9:42:49 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Patria, pero sin amo)
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To: nopardons

BTW, learn to paste quotes that you're responding to so we can tell what you are responding to. Your posts (like the ones last night) don't make a lot of sense without context.


83 posted on 08/05/2004 9:43:46 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Just ignore him.

Why don't you ignore me, too, hypocrite?

84 posted on 08/05/2004 9:44:32 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: nopardons
If you have facts,then post them...

Fact one: The Grand Old Party has selected Dr. Alan Keyes as their choice to challenge Barack Obama. Nothing you say will change that.

Fact two: GOP chances of holding this seat are infinitely greater than they were before they made this bold move.

Fact three: All conservatives who care about restoring and preserving our free republic will do what they can to insure success, no matter how they feel about how this happened.

Fact four: You're making a complete fool of yourself.

85 posted on 08/05/2004 9:47:20 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: nunya bidness

But even at that, a race against no opponent is not as newsworthy as this race has just become.

We all suck it up when we have to, but this does not mean that we have to lie to ourselves in the process.


86 posted on 08/05/2004 9:52:07 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Patria, pero sin amo)
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To: nopardons
Allan Keyes already has Obamasama on the run. Reports state that he canceled all his stops in Mississippi and is hauling his little democratic butt back to Jesse Jacksons bosom.

Doesn't sound like a confident man to me.

He is shaking and the battle isn't even a few hours old.

Boy, by the time September get here, Obamasama will be in a straitjacket somewhere in some sort of drug rehab.

Liberals will probably start increasing their meds now too.

Once Keyes knocks out the DNC falling star, he'll start taking chunks out of the rest of the baby killing johns and moore(on)s.

Go Keyes Go
87 posted on 08/05/2004 9:53:18 PM PDT by TomasUSMC
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Before Keyes was invited in, this race was one that Obama would win because there was no one running against him...no national coverage because it wasn't newsworthy.

1) Jack Ryan and his ex-wife. 2) The convention speech.

That's called national coverage.

This race will become Obama's launch into the VP slot in 2008.

Obama was already on his way to a national ticket. Why are you pretending otherwise?

88 posted on 08/05/2004 9:53:50 PM PDT by A.J.Armitage (http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Oh, he can have an opinion about how Illinois politics should be. You certainly do.
89 posted on 08/05/2004 9:56:10 PM PDT by A.J.Armitage (http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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To: TomasUSMC

I love your confidence and your zeal.

May many more catch it.

Marines are the greatest!


90 posted on 08/05/2004 9:56:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: A.J.Armitage

Now, the race will become Obama defeating a conservative icon.

Unless Obama slept with Ryan's wife, that's s dead story, it's been dead in Florida for quite sometime.

While I truly believe that barring some skeletons jumping out of his closet, Obama may have been well on his way to a VP slot in the next election, I don't think buying him face time in primetime is a good idea.


91 posted on 08/05/2004 9:57:39 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Patria, pero sin amo)
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To: BillyBoy
Keyes is NOT going to unify the party.

Keyes has NEVER held an elected office.

Yes,Keyes IS a carpetbagger and it WILL be used againast him.

Jesse looked at Obama,at the Boston Convention,the way he looks at Sharpton...it's the IF LOOKS COULD KILL look.But of course Jesse is going to help Obama in this race.That doesn't mean that he's in Jesse's pocket...yet,if ever.

Have you ever worked on a campaign,in Ill.for a BIG election? I have...for Reagan,Bush the elder,and Thompson,to name but a few.Your enthusiasm is to be lauded,but facts outweigh that.

Will Chicago go for Keyes? NEVER! How about Evanston? WHEN PIGS FLY TO THE MOON WITH THEIR OWN WINGS! Skokie? I DOUBT IT. Champaign-Urbana? BEAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hillsdale,Glen Coe,Winnetka,Cicero?sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!

Soooooooooo,where will Keyes carry the vote? Brookfield,Oakbrook,a few towns downstate? WHERE?

92 posted on 08/05/2004 9:58:33 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

It doesn't matter how Keyes got the nod. What's important is that he is a constitutionalist running for the U.S. Senate with the backing of the Illinois GOP instead of some RINO. Although Obama is certainly a rising star, he doesn't have it locked up yet. He went from being basically unopposed (since Ryan shot himself in the foot and Ditka wouldn't make the run), to facing a brilliant, passionate and articulate foe. This is a golden opportunity for the Land of Lincoln, and a great chance to add a real conservative to the Senate.


93 posted on 08/05/2004 9:59:06 PM PDT by karnage
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To: A.J.Armitage

I'm not the problem here, talk to the guy from California calling the guy from Illinois names for opining on the way the GOP is doing things in Illinois.


94 posted on 08/05/2004 9:59:18 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Patria, pero sin amo)
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To: EternalVigilance; TomasUSMC
I love your confidence and your zeal. May many more catch it. Marines are the greatest!

Ditto, Tom :o)

95 posted on 08/05/2004 9:59:26 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Luis Gonzalez; A.J.Armitage
I'm not the problem here, talk to the guy from California calling the guy from Illinois names for opining on the way the GOP is doing things in Illinois.

This comes form a guy named Luis who used the F word in reference to me no less than four times in his last two e-mails to me. Quit being a hypocrite, Luis. If you don't want me to comment on your posts, then quit talking about me.

96 posted on 08/05/2004 10:01:35 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: gopwinsin04

OUTSTANDING! GO ALAN GO!


97 posted on 08/05/2004 10:01:43 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: LandOfLincolnGOP

Well said.


98 posted on 08/05/2004 10:01:49 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Some of my best friends are white, middle-class males.)
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To: tame
My posts make quite a lot of sense;unlike yours.

Would you like the posts CCPed,that you made to me last night...especially the ones wherein you said that you were just kidding around?

99 posted on 08/05/2004 10:02:12 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: karnage

Your Reaganesqe confidence and optimism is exactly what is needed.

Great post.


100 posted on 08/05/2004 10:02:22 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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