Posted on 08/06/2004 2:57:01 AM PDT by kattracks
CHICAGO - Former presidential hopeful and talk-show host Alan Keyes (news - web sites) has agreed to become Illinois Republicans' U.S. Senate candidate, according to a newspaper report.Keyes planned to announce his decision to accept the GOP nomination at a public launch on Sunday, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times reported in Friday editions, citing unnamed Republican sources.
Bill Pascoe, a political adviser and Keyes friend, said Thursday he could not confirm that Keyes had accepted the nomination. "He thinks he owes it to them to take the time to deliberate," Pascoe said.
The committee asked Keyes to make the run late Wednesday after spending weeks searching for a replacement for primary winner Jack Ryan.
Keyes would face Barack Obama in the race for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (news, bio, voting record), a Republican. Obama, a state senator making his first run for national office, gained prominence as a keynote speaker at last month's Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Keyes, a two-time presidential hopeful who also ran two failed U.S. Senate campaigns from his home state of Maryland, opposes abortion and gay rights, wants to replace the income tax with a national sales tax and calls affirmative action a "government patronage program."
The race would be the first U.S. Senate election with two black candidates representing the major parties and almost assure Illinois would produce the fifth black senator in history.
Keyes will have to establish residency in Illinois by Election Day, according to federal law.
The leftist leaders I'm sure --- but how many blacks have never really heard of Keyes? It's not like the Republican party really did much promoting of him in the primary elections. I think if they'd get out and really advertize and campaign for him, he could get some real attention.
I sure hope so because I am tired of living in this DemocRAT infested hell hole!!
I am going Sunday to the rally and I am gonna work my ass off for him, and leave the rest to GOD!!
I wish I lived there to vote for him. A lot more blacks are actually conservative than we always realize. Many are religious and at least half the blacks are against abortion and gay marriages etc. Plus --- what are Obama's qualifications as a black? He has no black American ancestry, his father who abandoned him as a baby happened to be from Kenya so it's not that he can claim some special understanding of being descended from slaves or whatever. His American roots are white. Keyes won't use the race card, Obama might but I can't see how it would help him.
And read the link in reply #90 before you spew AP propaganda. The headline in your reply #93 is misleading at best.
Hastert offered his support and hasn't backstabeed Keyes in any way.
So get off your knee jerk canard and actually learn how to read.
Folks like you who cannot carry on an adult conversation and /or debate are the only down side to the FReerepublic web pages.
Get off the computer and go call a pychotherapist, NOW!
You'll be glad you did!! Either that or PLEASE go and get your medication checked! It is definately out of wack!
Get off the computer and go call a pychotherapist, NOW! You'll be glad you did!! Either that or PLEASE go and get your medication checked! It is definately out of wack
Someone is mad that her reply #89 of this has been proven wrong.
Someone is mad because they they have been found out to be bi-polar. Take your prozac and ping me in the morning.
LOL! You can't handle that you have been proven wrong.
You mean his mother was white? And his Kenyan dad dumped them in favor of spending time in Kenyan politics being a big shot? Is that what I'm reading here?
What has happened since the halcyon days of "Big Jim"? The Illinois GOP seemed healthy enough then. Is Cook County's minoritariat just swallowing the state?
I didn't know what happened to his dad after he abandoned little Barrack --- that's interesting he was into Kenyan politics.
LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL !
NO one is agreeing with your posts!
Folks are chatting with me not you. they know all you are about is argueing!
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