[Forgiven_Sinner]

I rejoiced in the Keyes selection. The senate election looks hopeless, yet I have hope because of him. He can win under these conditions:

1. Obama is discredited for his pro-abort, high tax positions. 2. Keyes cuts through the election rhetoric with incindiary comments that reveal Obama's leftist leanings. 3. ALL conservatives in Illinois register and vote for Keyes.

I'd say Keyes has a 10% chance of winning. Before his nomination, I'd say there was a 0% chance.

[Catspaw]

Does the website have a transcript of his press conference yesterday? The press coverage in the Chicago papers have him saying something about reparations for descendents of slaves and I'd like see exactly what he said.

[BufordP]

Anybody want to place odds on a Bush endorsement?

[Theodore R.]

I think the commentary has a small error: Wasn't Sam Houston BORN in VA, not TN?

[Dave S]

What real issues? Abortion and reparations for blacks. Yeah those are the real issues. Barf!! The idiot Keyes is now in favor of reparations. However rather than pay cash, he wants to give blacks freedom from taxes for two generations. Yeah that's a conservative idea. NOT!

[Semi Civil Servant]

As much as I like Keyes, as a candidate he's brought up: (1) his support of his version of reparations (in contradiction of his earlier statements); (2) his desire to get rid of the direct election of U.S. Senators.

This isn't mainstream stuff and Keyes is making it easy for the Dems (and the press) to paint him as a wacko. Alan needs to get a grip and only talk about things that can win him the election.

[Mike Bates]

Keyes Will Force Debate On The Real Issues

Like reparations?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Aquinasfan]

For two full days the committee met at this city’s Union League Club, under the erratic presiding gavel of the pro-abort state treasurer accordionist.

And Keyes was nominated. I see the hand of God here.

[happygrl]

Already Obama is trying to renege on a six-debate pledge he gave Jack Ryan. The media are pushing him to debate Keyes all six times.

Obama is running scared.

[Aquinasfan]

But even given that Keyes may well lose, due to his late start, why does his campaign engender enthusiasm? Because the candidacy gives the nation’s most articulate defender of life a platform that can work a change on the character of the GOP in Illinois and the nation — and that’s not an exaggeration.

Here the Lincoln-Douglas debates are a stirring example. Abraham Lincoln was by no means the firebrand for abolitionism that Keyes is for life, but in debating Sen. Stephen A. Douglas he stirred the nation’s conscience. Lincoln lost the U.S. Senate election, but went on to national reputation and glory.

In Illinois — it is fair to say — the cause of life now has its greatest opportunity ever to become a front-centered issue.

This is what the campaign is all about.

Let the debates begin. Soon!