"Illinois should find a home grown conservative without sex scandals."
I agree, but we live in an imperfect world.
It's a bit late to whine about the Ill. GOP selection process. We need to support Keyes if you dont want Hawaiian-born Socialist Obama to win.
"Carpetbaggers weren't benign, they were scum seeking power in a vacuum, such people are never needed." That's the confederate view, not reality. They were helpful to building a power-base for blacks in the south and rebuilding states during reconstruction. They were as benign as the pioneer settlers who moved west. Then the KKK terrorized the black community post reconstruction and ran off those supporting their rights. the rest is history. 140 years later, the first race where both major candidates have black ancestry.
This will make it a worthwhile race.
That is the reality. Carpetbaggers went to the south to seek power and suckle on the government teet. Had they been benign they would have settled in and helped BEFORE running for elected office. They were scum, and all of their modern immitators are scum, and if Keyes doesn't pull out he will turn himself into scum.
Right now that's your choice: a socialist and scum. Both are bad options, and it's all because the Ill. GOP is a bunch of morons.