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1 posted on 08/05/2004 11:35:37 AM PDT by quidnunc
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To: quidnunc

Run Keyes. Whoever is put up against Obama at this point basically has no chance so it might as well be a real Republican. If nothing else he can make some points during the campaign.


2 posted on 08/05/2004 11:40:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: quidnunc
The IL GOP didn't want to spend time and money grooming a Republican candidate from within the state, so they opted for a free-agent in Maryland, knowing that Keyes will attract out-of-state money.

Keyes is too conservative for IL; these people wouldn't know constitutional principles if it danced naked in front of them at a strip bar.

5 posted on 08/05/2004 11:44:15 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: quidnunc

As a former Chicagoland resident I can say, without fear of contradiction, that the Republican Party in IL is a useless embarrassment.


6 posted on 08/05/2004 11:44:55 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: quidnunc

There's gotta be some conservatives in Illinois, I mean Illinois is a huge fricking state. Is the GOP there that inept? Surely they can find someone outside of the metro Chicago area, someone in Champaign, Peroria, Rockford maybe?...hell what about Superman in Metropolis way at the bottom of the state?


8 posted on 08/05/2004 11:47:48 AM PDT by 12 Gauge Mossberg
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Too bad John Kass is excerpted. He's an excellent writer and I'm not giving the Tribune my personal info.


10 posted on 08/05/2004 11:50:24 AM PDT by No-Compromise Conservative
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To: quidnunc

Hillary Clinton in NY pretty much destroyed the concept of attacking a candidate as a carpetbagger. I think at a bare minumum Keyes will make Obabama earn it, and he may have a small chance of an upset.


18 posted on 08/05/2004 12:34:24 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: quidnunc; The Ghost of FReepers Past; William Creel; JohnnyZ

I've been an election watcher for over 20 years. And in all that time, this is the strangest and craziest Senate race I've ever seen. If someone had written a novel or screenplay about this race, it would be rejected as unbelieveable. But the unbelieveable has become reality. Can anyone name any other U.S. Senate race as off-the-wall as this one?


24 posted on 08/05/2004 3:55:22 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: quidnunc
Message to Chicago: you can be loud and proud and black and conservative.

And maybe even Republican, though let's not get ENTIRELY silly here!

30 posted on 08/05/2004 4:39:15 PM PDT by JohnnyZ
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