Posted on 08/02/2004 4:28:25 PM PDT by ChuckK
It's not The Land of Lincoln anymore, it's The Land of Rosty.
Oh, so you're against carpet baggers now?
If Alan had the same endorsement from DC that Liddy got would that sway you? I mean she is your Senator now. I thought the team was the important thing? Why would you want to deprive the good people of Illinois a chance at a Republican Senator? Do you agree that Obama has a lock on the election without some dramatic RNC intervention?
;-)
Regards,
TS
PS:
IMHO, The chances of Alan doing this are slim and none.
Hello, she was BORN here and owned property here. The same cannot be said for Hillary and/or Keyes.
And, yes, I'd love to see some dramatic intervention to stop Obama. Got any?
We should only be so lucky..........*sigh*.
Good point. You've got my democrat boot-licking, far left, crazy sister down there. Sorry.
Bogus example. Running for office in your home State where you were born and raised is not comparable to people just moving to a State with which they have no connection to run for office.
GO Alan GO!
But I'm no Illinoisian.
I'd like to suggest that the GOP use this very long-shot situation to go directly against Obama in his own back yard. ISSUES: 1, Social Security. African Americans have a shorter life expectancy than whites. That means that as a group they collect less in benefits. With a 401k plan, their heirs would at least get the money and have a better opportunity to build real wealth. But Obama and his Plantation masters like things just the way they are, with African Americans on a very short leash.
2. Educational opportunity. Obama opposes vouchers. He's in favor of rich-people-only schools that black kids are frozen out of. The anti-voucher approach also takes money (on a per-pupil basis) AWAY from the public systems. 3.Leadership opportunity discrimination. 80% of African Americans are opposed to abortion, they are overwhelmingly opposed to gay marriage, they favor school vouchers, yet stepping out of the Plantation Masters line on any one of these issues means they are barred from serious activity or position in the Democratic Party, regardless of ability. It's time to find another home. It doesn't have to be an African-American to wage this campaign. It could be anybody, but SOMEONE should take advantage of this OPPORTUNITY.
I'd like to suggest that the GOP use this very long-shot situation to go directly against Obama in his own back yard. ISSUES: 1, Social Security. African Americans have a shorter life expectancy than whites. That means that as a group they collect less in benefits. With a 401k plan, their heirs would at least get the money and have a better opportunity to build real wealth. But Obama and his Plantation masters like things just the way they are, with African Americans on a very short leash.
2. Educational opportunity. Obama opposes vouchers. He's in favor of rich-people-only schools that black kids are frozen out of. The anti-voucher approach also takes money (on a per-pupil basis) AWAY from the public systems.
3.Leadership opportunity discrimination. 80% of African Americans are opposed to abortion, they are overwhelmingly opposed to gay marriage, they favor school vouchers, yet stepping out of the Plantation Masters line on any one of these issues means they are barred from serious activity or position in the Democratic Party, regardless of ability. It's time to find another home.
It doesn't have to be an African-American to wage this campaign. It could be anybody, but SOMEONE should take advantage of this OPPORTUNITY.
No, but the IL GOP leadership claims they should have a decsion tomorrow: "The 19 members of the Illinois Republican Party’s State Central Committee will meet at noon Tuesday at Chicago's Union League Club to hear from candidates interested in replacing Jack Ryan as the GOP’s U.S. Senate nominee. IL GOP State Chairman Judy Baar Topinka has been quoted in the press saying Barack Obama’s Republican opponent will be chosen at this meeting."
www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=18191
I don't think anyone the Republicans could run would have a chance of winning. On the other hand, the candidate the Republicans won could play a useful role by bringing out issues in the debates. Keyes might be good for that.
Keyes would be a great replacement, if this was Maryland.
Well, I would volunteer to run,......but I ain't leavin Texas!!!!
Contact Alan Keyes and urge him to run:
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Many people, especially on the left, find Alan Keyes funny. One Maureen Dowd column suggested that Keyes sounds like Marvin the Martian. Others have been less kind. "Hectoring megalomaniac," "shrill fanatic," "paranoid egoist," "Harold Stassen on steroids"—these are labels that stick easily to the frenetic moralist.
And no wonder. At various stops along the primary trail, Keyes has referred to the U.S. government and George Bush as "massa," compared abortion and taxes to slavery, and accused the media of "racism" for not taking his candidacy as seriously as Keyes himself does. In these puerile outbursts, Keyes actually achieved something remarkable—a racial mugging delivered by a religious conservative reminiscent of the Sharpton left.
I do not find Alan Keyes particularly funny. I find him angry, hysterical and mean-spirited—which is pretty much a voter's-eye view. All that keeps Keyes from attaining Sharptonesque proportions as a public menace is his political irrelevance. Unlike Sharpton, Keyes has no following of resentful radicals and hate-whitey blacks that is large enough to affect the direction of his party or, given the right circumstances, provoke mayhem in the streets.
Keyes' audience does contain a cohort of moral zealots, but his main constituency consists of pale-faced conservatives so desperate for a black face to defend them against radical attacks that they don't seem to appreciate the way in which their candidate himself is a radical.
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