That's brilliant on your part. But is is the same kind of brilliance Keyes displays: moral clarity, conservative principles, political stupidity. It MAY be a "sub rosa economics lesson": if it is, his "students" will not get it...it MAY be a moral argument, I'll give you that -- but -- and pay real close attention here:
IT IS HORRID POLITICS.
My God, can you imagine the scramble on everybody's part to "prove" their geneology? Does he realize that some huge part of the population would be able to "prove" that? And then you would need a huge NEW Federal bureaucracy just to vet all the claims, and the lawsuits from the people who were left out, and the politicians who would introduce laws to create partial reparations for those who are partially affected, and the NEW controversies...when you introduce an entitlement into the political arena, it spawns entire industries and concepts and bodies of statutes and agencies and...I could go on.
And I don't mean by "political" what many on this board seem to think it is, a synonym for "compromise". You say "horrid politics", and they rush to Keyes' defense as a non-compromiser. No, no, no: by horrid politics I mean HE IS AS STUPID ABOUT HOW ELECTIONS ARE WON AND HOW POLICIES GET PLAYED OUT IN THE REAL WORLD AS HE IS BRILLIANT FROM THE LECTURN.
As a candidate, he's a mess. No clue.
Keyes has no chance of getting elected. He will, however, mix-it-up with Obama. Obama has got to be exposed as the empty suit that he is. Keyes is the perfect man for the job.
Don't forget that Illinois is the same state that put up with that fraud Carol Moseley-Braun. Obama will slide right into that job, but not before Keyes scuffs him up a bit and marginalizes him.