Posted on 08/06/2004 3:55:06 PM PDT by Mini-14
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| Keyes' supporters rallied in front of the Union League Club Wednesday afternoon to meet Alan Keyes as he arrived for an interview with the IL GOP. |
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS -- Republicans from all over the state are expected to converge in Arlington Heights this Sunday to see Ambassador Alan Keyes accept the State Central Committee's tap as their U.S. Senate candidate for the 2004 campaign.
A skeleton campaign staff is being put together now, and arrangement for Keyes to step into the wild world of Illinois politics is in motion.
"Supporters of Ambassador Keyes are encouraged to come to a rally Sunday afternoon at 2:00 PM at the Wellington Restaurant, 2121 South Arlington Heights Road in the northwestern suburb of Arlington Heights," the campaign said on Friday.
While the Chicago media has been speculating that Keyes will not accept the offer to challenge Democratic candidate Barack Obama for the U.S. Senate slot, IL GOP state central committeemen have been saying since Wednesday that Keyes is indeed coming, he only needed a few days to get his campaign staff lined up and get personal details in place before formally accepting the bid.
Editorials condemning the Republican party's choice of Keyes were prominent in Chicago papers on Friday, but Keyes supporters throughout the state say they are planning to welcome their candidate Sunday afternoon, the campaign said today.
One paper ridiculed the number of Keyes supporters that met him at the Union League Club on Wednesday, suggesting that few people support a Keyes' candidacy. Barack Obama has been met by crowds numbering in the hundreds since his national exposure at the Democratic National Convention last week.
But all that doesn't seem to faze those who encouraged Keyes to come to Illinois and run for U.S. Senate.
"The Republican base is energized with this candidacy," State Senator Dave Syverson, the member of the state central committee with the most weighted vote, said this week. "There's less than 90 days until the election. We're counting on the base now."
WHAT: Welcoming Rally for Ambassador Alan Keyes
WHERE: Wellington Restaurant, 2121 South Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights, IL
WHEN: Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 2:00 PM
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Bit of a Streisand fan are you, Quid?
Check out post #4, I bet you that Keyes however, will expect Bush to be a Keyes man.
obama has agreed to 7 lincoln douglas style debates
one for the ages
can't wait!!!
"Some of you may believe that the Clinton era was the most dangerous era that we faced as Americans and conservatives in the history of our country. I do not believe this. I believe that we are right now in the most dangerous era that we have faced as conservatives in America. And though I know it will be difficult for some of you, the sub-heading of this speech could very well be, "Why I am not a Bush Republican." And I want to make that clear. I want to make it clear from the outset, so you know where I stand and where I'm coming from and so I don't have to pull my punches here because I won't. " -- Alan Keyes, August 25, 2001
I'm planning to be there.
"I want to go over something in some detail here because it illustrates the point that I made during the course of--of course I made it during the primaries and then in private. I made it in the course of the general election; a person would come to me and say, "Well, you've got to acknowledge that we've got to get rid of Bill Clinton, that's the worse evil possible," and I tried to explain to them, no, the evil that you know, the evil that you recognize, the evil that inspires you to fight against it, that's not the worse evil you can face. The worst evil you can face is the insidious evil that creeps behind your lines, that demoralizes your leadership, that confuses your commitment and your understanding and that, in the end, defeats you, not because your enemy overwhelms you but because in your confusion, your doubt, and your lack of commitment to those things, you overwhelm yourself. And I'm watching it happen right now." -- Alan Keyes August 25, 2001
Nice. I just prayed that he gets a senate seat!
In future run for president (probably against Hillary),
I'll support him then too.
Keyes has no hope on being elected — none!
And along the way to losing this ridiculous bid, he will blame Bush for not supporting him, and deal a staggering blow at THE MESSAGE.
After this, it will be political fact that the pro-life, pro-second Amendment, pro-Constitution platform is unelectable, proof being the resounding defeat of a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-Constitution Conservative icon by a relative newcomer to politics.
The most famous singer of "Send in the Clowns" in the U.S.A. was not Streisand, but Judy Collins. The song was composed, not by Streisand, but by Stephen Sondheim.
I'd guess that the person who associated the song with Streisand is most likely to be the Streisand fan.
No, that's not the reason he'll lose, he'lol lose because he's not a serious candidate.
And he will lose because of the likes of George Ryan and the rest of the grifters which control the Illinois GOP.
It may seem like a small thing, but we went 16 years without new license plates being issued.
It took a Democrat to get us plates that didn't look like something out of The Beverly Hillbillies.
They will lay the blame for the loss at the feet of the RNC, and the Dems will blame the message.
I am partial to the Sinatra version myself.
So...who are you going to vote for?
I'm not going to vote for the Democrat and if I thought Keyes had a chance to win I would just skip voting for senator, or I might write in someone like Steve Rauschenberger.
As it is I'll probably hold my nose and vote for Keyes, if he's still on the ballot come November.
I thought you were worried about what losing would do to Keyes' career. I thought you'd do whatever it took to help him if you lived here.
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