Sign and Forward Petition to GOP:
Support & Fully Fund Keyes Campaign!
Posted on 08/10/2004 12:27:10 PM PDT by BillyBoy
Fellow FReepers,
One of our active members in the Illinois chapter, Unspun, has created an e-petition calling on Republican leaders on both the state and national level to immediately fully fund and support the U.S. Senate campaign of Dr. Alan L. Keyes.
I'm posting this on FR because all freepers across America are welcomed and encouraged to sign. And after you do, please forward it to others you know:
A re-elected President George W. Bush and our nation NEED Alan Keyes to assume Peter Fitzgerald's Senate seat. Fitzgerald was elected running as unapologetic conservative and that's exactly what Keyes is doing. Alan Keyes CAN win this election but only through the national efforts of conservatives everywhere. He is jumping into the race during the time of crisis when the Democrats are way ahead on fundraising.
It is especially important for Ambassador Keyes' wonderful voice of insightful American statesmanship and conscience to be heard in the Senate, instead of the liberal extremity represented by Barack Obama's Illinois State Senate votes.
This petition simply calls for Republican leaders to unite, to:
1. Introduce Alan Keyes to the campaign contributors they know.
2. Encourage the volunteers they know, to work for Dr. Keyes.
3. Strongly endorse Alan Keyes and work with his campaign
The time is short in this unique and historic campaign. The eyes of the nation are upon it. Alan Keyes' message must get to all the voters of Illinois.
The above link explains further. Opening it, you will see that this petition is starting to be being signed by dedicated Illinoisans and other Americans of principle, including grass roots and political leaders.
Won't you add your your name and town to the list?
The link to the petition itself is:
http://www.petitiononline.com/KeyesIL/petition.html
Thank you! Please pass it on! BUMP this thread!
Just give up and die then. Meanwhile, the rest of us will do what we can to win, and to advance conservatism.
You can quit pontificating about insults, btw. You've thrown in more than your share.
BS, the residency requirement is there for a reason. Non-residents CANNOT effectively represent a state.
Yeah all Senators live in the DC area (usually not DC proper, DC proper is a hellhole), AFTER they get elected. First they live in the state they represent for a while, a few years at least.
True, and that's not a good thing. Part of the problem with having government service pay well enough to have career politicians, something the founders adviced against.
Given the polls it sure looks like a campaign issue to me, he's losing badly, htis has to play into that at least some.
I won't give up, and I'm not dieing any time soon. He's an illegitimate candidate and none of your insults will change that simple fact. And violating the clear intent of the residency clause does not advance conservatism.
I'll pontificate as long as Jim-Rob is willing to suffer my attendance, that's not your call to make. If you don't like it, stop reading it, and stop replying to it. The more you resort to cheap shots the more transparent you are.
Alan meets the residency requirement. So what are you talking about?
And exactly where are these 'polls' you mention?
Hey meets the letter, he does not meet the obvious intent.
28% for Keyes, 67% for Obama. That's the poll. You claim it's invalid but until one shows up with a pretty vast difference those are the numbers. Keyes is losing badly, and is too far behind to force Obama to campaign. You don't have to campaign against an opponent down 39% with 3 months to go.
Exactly which 'residency clause'?
My copy of the constitution simply says that they must be a resident of the state. It doesn't specify for how long.
You're inventing clauses that don't exist.
Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas for many years. When the decision was made to put him on the ticket, to meet the constitutional requirement he quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he hadn't lived in years.
Did you whine and scream at Dick Cheney? Did it harm his electoral efforts? Did it make any difference to anybody anywhere? No, the rules were kept, and the constitutional process was followed.
As has Dr. Keyes.
Yeah? Let's see the poll, and CBS's methodology.
I seriously doubt you've seen it.
That's the clause. Now tell me, why do you think the founders thought it was important that a state's representatives actually be residents? Do you honestly think that if they'd forseen people moving into the state 2 1/2 months before the election they wouldn't have put a minimum time on it, much like they did on how long the person needs to have lived in the US?
And I didn't like that fast "move" by Cheney. But at least he'd live in Wyoming before so there was some legitimacy to his claim. Which is a step better than Keyes has right now. And I'm not whining or screaming, I'm stating the plain truth: no one can be a legitimate representative of a state they've never lived in, not Keyes, not Clinton, no one. Stating the plain truth isn't whining or screaming. Attacking the messenger because their message is inconvenient for you on the other hand...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1188303/posts
Keyes losing in ways that San Fransisco residents would pay good money for.
You are whining by my definition.
A whiner is someone who continues to complain about something that can't be changed.
This issue was decided over a week ago. You're wasting our time.
But this can be changed, Alan could drop out of the race.
The issue was decided, but that doesn't mean it was decided correctly, by your logic we shouldn't review history to learn from mistakes.
If you feel your time is being wasted reading and replying to my posts then stop. You own your time, use it how you chose, but don't blame others when you waste it.
Your precious poll was of 'registered voters'.
Do you know what that means?
And it was taken before Keyes even announced.
AND, they reveal nothing of their methodology.
Do you trust this poll, or is is merely serving your agenda?
By the way, in your previous post, you mentioned 'polls', plural.
Know something we don't know, or were you inaccurate?
That ain't gonna happen. Now what?
Come into the land of reality.
Yeah, with roughly 33% of registered voters being Republican he couldn't even get full party line support.
It's the only poll we've got. Until something better gets done it is the poll of record, don't like the result take up a fund and hire a polling company.
Lazy use of language "the polls" is a standard phrase.
just because it's not going to happen doesn't mean it couldn't. Keyes is physically and legally capable of dropping out of the race, things could change. The fact that it won't is just another reason to be disappointed in how Keyes has sold down his integrity.
You must be a LSM reporter.
You just don't deserve my full and undivided attention.
Alan has more integrity in his little finger than all of his FR critics have in their collective collectivist bodies put together.
Alan HAD integrity. Then he decided to do something he himself said was wrong, now he has no integrity.
Then go to DU. I'm sure they have a fullscale trash-Keyes operation going. You'll feel right at home.
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