Illinois GOP picks Alan Keyes to run against Obama!

illinoisleader.com ^ | August 4, 2004

[outlawcam]

I'm just saying that don't waste your time for .1%, if that's the number. However, I don't think that will be the number. Pee Wee Herman would get more than that. OJ Simpson would get more than that. Either of the Menendez brothers would get more than that. You threw that number out there but it is not valid. That kind of attitude is self-defeating.

And don't even try to deny that you are not exaggerating with these numbers, since you claimed that Keyes would get "less than zero" percent of the vote. Let's bring this back to reality. Okay. It's not less than zero. It's probably more than .1%. How much more? What is achievable?

[outlawcam]

I was answering a question that was raised. He wasn't born in Illinois; that much we know.

[myself6]

Comments like yours just goes to strengthen my position that Illinois republicans are just fu@$ing retarded.

Your so called "principles" have done nothing but turn Illinois into a socialist state. You elect corrupt RINOs who then step on their own di@ks and get tossed out of office. As soon as they place a real conservative on a ticket you guys start making asinine statements.

This is war bud. The normal rules dont apply here. Stow your "principles" and sit down.

Alan will not win this election, but then I dont think they expect him to. His job is to make osama look like an idiot and possibly get the hearts of Illinois republicans to start beating again.

[familyofman]

"He wasn't born in Illinois; that much we know."

True, and he is a current resident of Maryland & has never lived in Illinois. Can you say 'carpetbagger'? Why can't the GOP in Ill. find a candidate from their own state - aren't they any politicians looking to end their career in a blaze of glory?

[cyborg]

I agree.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Anyone who gives money to this phoney campaign is pouring money down a rathole. I knew that the Illinois GOP was stupid, but I never geussed that they were completely brain dead.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..I guess you didn't see all the threads BtA...

Okay. I'll defer to your take on it, C. There's few here who I admire as I do you. Cheers, B

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...Keys will verbally eviscerate Obama, but that may not be enough in liberal Illinois...

No, it may not be. But Dr Keyes earns extra kudos, if he's prepared to raise our battle flag so deep behind enemy lines.

[rwfromkansas]

Obama is rolling the dough while the Keyes campaign has but a penny.

I hope Keyes will raise enough money.

[rwfromkansas]

Something will need to be done to neutralize the massive financial advantage Obama has.

[jpl]

I like Alan Keys, but this is really kind of a joke, and the results are going to be embarrassing for us.

[Onelifetogive]

As much as I respect and like Dr. Keyes, I don't think this will work.

Not doing it would definately NOT have worked. We had nothing to lose. At least we gain Alan Keyes debating Conservative principles.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..I think after reading some of the posts on this thread Alan Keyes would think he accidentally logged onto DU...

Quite possibly. Three hundred posts back, I had the same feeling.

Tame, I'm reminded of the Lewinsky dynamic, when the Friends types were saying 'it's only about sex' and 'you Republicans are such Puritans.' There's a whole bunch of post-moral people out there who can't see anything wrong with committing adultery to advance your career. Bills and Monicas, who see nothing wrong in lying and cheating to get ahead, and have done or would do it themselves, if the opportunity presented itself. When someone comes along of superior moral fibre, a Starr or a Keyes, their only recourse is to snipe away at the formers' motives, in order to diminish the morality gap. I'm not saying that's the motivation of all the backstabbers on this thread, but it's gotta be a factor. It's the only way to explain some of the vitriol.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I wish Keyes would run in a safe GOP state.

He need to run against Baucus in Montana. I think he could beat him.

[N3WBI3]

Actually he has not yet accepted and said that he has to weigh the fact one should not parachute into a state and run for office..

[TigersEye]

Keyes called her a carpetbagger.

Big deal.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I expect this to be a Durbin/Durkin or a Lenin/Rocky type of race. I really hope I am wrong."

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Even if it's a Levin/Rocky type race, wasn't that better than a Levin/Joe Schwarz race? If Keyes doesn't run, chances are that a typical Illinois RINO would run and surely lose, and we would have watered down the GOP even more (and missed the opportunity to allow a true conservative like Keyes to have a forum to speak to moderate-to-conservative blacks and whites about how the Democrat Party betrays their principles.