Posted on 08/06/2004 12:34:34 PM PDT by Condor51
Buckle your seat belts.
Former presidential hopeful Alan Keyes has told Illinois Republicans that he will take on Democratic Senate nominee Barack Obama -- setting the stage for a three-month debate between two gifted, Harvard-educated orators from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Members of the Republican State Central Committee insisted the former radio and television commentator from Maryland make the promise before they would vote to offer him the nomination Wednesday night, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday.
"So he went back into the room and basically said, 'If you offer, I will accept,' " said a source close to the negotiations.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
And I searched and couldn't find it posted - to my surprise.
I think I goofed by posting this :-(
Moderator, please feel free to pull this thread.
Fun, fun, fun! In addition to being a true conservative, Keyes is a firebrand, highly quotable, and entertaining. I have no idea who would win the race, but what a race!
Great fun indeed but a throw away "token" (pardon the pun) candidate. If Republicans were serios he would have been nominated in a race he could have one and we would have had a Right Wing Republican Senator from Virgina, or another Southern State where a senate chair was at stake.
Can't be that old. Heard this morning he accepts, and will make his FORMAL announcement on Monday. Anyhow, it's good news.
And they're BOTH so articulate!
But, good news it is :-)
OBAMANATION is articulate. Dr. Alan Keyes is eloquent, in a manner reminiscent of the writings of the best of the founding fathers.
Actually, I was just making a joke. I predict that someone, somewhere, during this campaign, is going to pop out with that cringe-making cliche "articulate."
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