Posted on 08/07/2004 7:24:44 PM PDT by Graybeard58
The biggest problem it highlights is that they do not have a home grown candidate who could win. It will be intereting to follow the race in the black community, though.
I'm looking forward to voting for Alan Keyes -- finally, a black candidate I can vote for! It gets lonely living as a black Republican in Chicago. At the same time, I don't have much hope for Keyes's candidacy. Unless something drastically changes, he will be crushed by a margin of 2:1.
I like the idea of Alan Keyes in the U.S. Senate.
A dose of Alan Keyes may be just what Illinois needs.
There was a news report on a Chicago radio station the Keyes still owes $520,000 for his Y2K presidential campaign and $75,000 in Maryland back taxes.
I'm looking forward to it. We haven't had his kind of passion and oratory, (and entertainment value), since B-1 Bob Dornan got the rug yanked from under his feet.
I'm hoping that the GOP treats Keyes exactly like the Dims treated Obama. Keyes should be delivering the convention keynote.
Well, I agree with Keyes on most issues, but I consider myself pretty far to the right. He talks about abolishing the income tax, abolishing social security and medicare, etc. I'm really glad that he has the intellectual integrity to take such positions. But you won't find many people -- present company excluded -- who share them.
I wish Alan Keyes had come to Arkansas to run for the Senate.
Yep problems abound thoughout the GOP it seems.....
what? There's no white candidates you can vote for?
I can hear the cries now if I wrote "Finally, a white candidate I can vote for!"
I wonder if there are any quotes from Keyes regarding Hillary moving to NY to run for Senate (carpetbagging) a few years ago? I may google around for it.
Is this about the same?
Dr. Keyes' views are far right.
Translation: They are what would have been referred to a few decades ago as moderate and mainstream.
As with many of us, it isn't Dr. Keyes who has changed. It is simply that the liberal agenda has become increasingly tolerated, condoned, accepted and promoted in our time, making reasonable and mainstream views appear radical by contrast.
Dr. Keyes is a mild-mannered, upright, loving, 1950's moderate who has been transported into our time. He has simply kept the faith while the seas of liberalism have engulfed our country.
I voted for him in the 2000 Presidential primary. He would make a great senator. (He would make a great President.)
I wish him well.
That's not right. Dornan devolved into a clown. He's not well.
Keyes is brilliant. Alas, he has no place in today's GOP. You'll hear the smug GOP hacks snickering at him while saluting every hackneyed malapropism out of Bush's mouth.
That smear story was on WLS in the 5:00pm (cst) news cast.
Again, the Chicago Tribune is the culprit. This is the paper that declared democratic senatorial candidate Obama as a
"phenom of the party".
Well let me see.... Hmmm. I think we lost California, Washington, and Illinois in the last presidential election.
I'll say it. He's a sacrificial lamb.
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
and he's always at home with his back to the wall.
He's proud of the scars and the battles he's lost
He struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross
But it's okay. He's been doing it for years.
YEAH, Me too!!
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