Keyes came across as “desperate for office” too desperate to actually be elected !
The guy is from Maryland. He hadn’t set foot in Illinois until the Senate race. Then he ran an abysmal campaign that basically handed the Senate seat to Obama on a platter.
I was there. I cringed every time he opened his mouth. The machinations of the Illinois GOP aside Keyes should have politely declined to run.
But he was to egotistical to do that.
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