Why are you "ambivalent" to the race card and racial pandering?
This is NOT the kind of thing one talks about,when one want to reach what's left of GOPers in Ill.!
Much like the idea that countries have no permanent friends, only permanent interests, I am willing to consider a relatively small compromise here to potentially major advances on other fronts. Sometimes loyalty to principles is knowing when to compromise one to advance others. If you are so loyal to your principles that you never get to advance them, you aren't very loyal to your principles. This is politics. I'd say real politik, but sinkspur would have another hissy fit.
This is NOT the kind of thing one talks about,when one want to reach what's left of GOPers in Ill.!
If Keyes gets every GOP vote in IL, he still loses unless he can get a whole bunch of non-GOP votes. He has to break into the D lock on blacks to have a chance. This may or may not be a good way to do it. But at least he is trying. He was brought in to shake up an otherwise hopeless race. He has certainly done that.