Posted on 08/06/2004 8:03:31 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Stop with the Hillary/Keyes comparisons already (like in the linked oped in the newspaper, the Pantagraph). Hillary was on a POWER TRIP -- she pushed local candidates (Lowy and Andrew Cuomo) to the side so she could have the prize for herself. IN CONTRAST, AMBASSADOR KEYES IS RESPONDING TO A CALL FOR HELP FROM AN IMPERILED ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY. He's on a rescue mission. True, the media in Illinois don't like his decision, they don't want him showing up with a life-preserver - - - but why should he agree with them that the local GOP should be allowed to drown? CONGRATULATIONS, AMBASSADOR KEYES. YOU'VE SHOWN A SENSE OF DUTY BY RESPONDING TO A CALL FOR HELP.
You continued to have to rationalize a wrong action.
Are you that far removed from the founding principles? This is exactly what the elites in NY and LA want---an excuse to run "their" candidates in ND and AZ and OH. It is an utter disaster, and cannot be excused.
that REPRESENTATIVES at the national level come from the people they supposedly represent.
You guys are really jumping through hoops on this one, and it's reminiscent of the Clinton supporters trying to explain why their guy wasn't doing anything wrong.
I fail to see how you can characterize what the IL GOP wants as wrong. WE have no right to tell them who they can and cannot choose. THAT would overstep our bounds in federalism.
It's their state. They want Keyes. Now, let's get behind their decision, and trust that they know what’s best for their state.
bttt
*Rolling my eyes*
You do realize, don't you, that Charlie Rangle claims HE is the one who approached Hillary Clinton, right?
What are you talking about? A representative is someone chosen by the people. They are choosing Keyes. By what right can we take issue with their choice? Let them choose for themselves.
Fine. Will you still say that when he gets 17% of the vote and Osama gets 60?
There's no reason to make such an issue out of this.
God can use useful idiots for His own purposes.
So I don't want you to howl when a rich Hollywood type gets on the ballot in, say, Montana and overwhelms the locals with advertising and name recognition because "it's their state."
That's up to the people of Illinois to decide.
I'm more in the mood for a search and destroy mission. 8-)
Good question.
I don't have a right to tell them what the CAN'T chose, but I do have the right to tell them what they SHOULDN'T chose. And you should never chose a carpetbagger. Keyes doesn't live there, has never lived there, and after he loses probably will never live there. Might as well just head over to Indiana and randomly kidnap someone.
Begging your pardon, but the IL GOP has already decided who they want. I wouldn't dare question their judgment.
They apparently went with the candidate they thought was best.
I don't know. Maybe -- like Bush -- he disagrees with me, maybe not. But I'd support him anyway - like I support Bush - because I agree with him on other things. We can't agree with everybody on everything -- you have to go with the candidate who's closest to you overall. And please, stop using "appeasement" incorrectly. It means to give things to dictators in the hope they'll play nice - - it DOESN't mean declining to invade a country that happens to be run by a dictator. If it meant the latter, then we're "appeasers" when it comes to scores of dictator-run countries, from Cuba to China to North Korea to Zimbabwe.
"Obama is being groomed and positioned for national office as "the true face of black America". What he really represents is another clintonesque stealth candidate, supposedly a moderate/centrist, but in reality a functional leftist. Like Clinton he possesses the charisma and eloquence to charm, soothe and reassure the voters into dropping their guard while he and his party continue implementing their leftist agenda.
"For this reason alone it is important to have an equally intelligent and eloquent black candidate such as Keyes, who is also a true Constitutionist and conservative, oppose him in public debate, and to do it now, and not allow the media to create, without challenge, a "Mythos of Obama."
Excellent!!!
A nation's liberty is at stake, and here, we have an opportunity for hundreds of thousands of persons to hear the Founding ideas articulated as they might have been from the lips of Washington or Jefferson, and all some can do is gripe about "carpetbagging"?
Get the bigggggggg picture, guys!!
We have a country
- whose constitutional principles are being undermined by activist judges,
- whose children are being murdered in the womb,
- whose school-age children are being dumbed down and never taught the ideas of liberty,
- whose citizens believe men like the wealthy Kerry and Edwards have their best interests at heart and are ready to trade their votes for promises (the currency of those who desire power),
AND YOU ARE NOT SEEING THAT PERHAPS "DIVINE PROVIDENCE" IS PROVIDING, ONCE AGAIN, FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENLIGHTEN AT LEAST A FEW CITIZENS AS TO THE BANKRUPTCY AND FALLACIES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S AGENDA FOR AMERICA?
Come on!! Obama is probably going to win, no matter who the Republicans offer up! At least, there is a man who can rebut his ideas.
How? Why? You believe outsiders should tell a state they there's something wrong with picking an outsider? Crazy logic.
And you should never chose a carpetbagger
That's a contradiction in terms. A carpetbagger is an invader. Keyes is a draftee.
A state party apparatus can suck (as apparently Illinois' does). It is so pathetic, it can't find one Republican in one of the most populous states in the Union to run as a senatorial candidate. And the Founders would tell them what they are doing is wrong, wrong, wrong.
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