Makes my head throb jus thinking that this is the best the GOP could put against Obama.
No matter who went against Obama they would have lost. Keyes will lose big-time. But he's giving the Republican party a bad name.
No, no, you're missing the point.
That retired football player was "the best" that they had to put up against the RATs. But, it seems that he was not tprepared to play hardball -- and he must have known that they would play hardball, like never before.
Did the RATs send him a message? Did one of their PIs call him up one night and ask if he wanted thus-and-such on the front pages? Did someone kill his cat? Was a message left on his car's windshield?
Who knows. But it seems to me pretty obvious that he had a sudden, unanticipated, but very radical change of course, to the tune of 180 deg., precisely what we'd expect to see if a genuine political threat to the RAT agenda was "sent a message".
No, Keyes wasn't "the best" that they could put up against the RAT. Osamba is the "designated winner" in this machine-politics race. The RATs have decided that he WILL win, regardless of what it takes. You can take THAT to the bank. Osamba WILL be the winner, period.
So no, to repeat, Keyes was NOT "the best" they could throw into the ring.
He was merely disposable.
Someone, deep in the bowels of the legendary GOP "smoke-filled back-rooms" (and yeah, they do exist -- at least they did a few years back when I ran for office), someone is getting the back-pats of his career, for his brilliant solution for finally getting Alan Keyes out of the GOP's hair once and for all.
THAT is why they "offered" this to Keyes. They knew it would be like throwing red meat to him. They knew he would lose, bigtime. And they knew that it would be the final nail in the coffin of the "Alan Keyes, Candidate" game.
I railed against this before he opened his mouth about "reparations", because I didn't want to see his career ended, and, because I didn't want the boost that Barack Osamba would get for his "first heavyweight KO" bout.
Now, though, I feel a little better about my initial fears.
First off, now that I can see the coming headlines ("Keyes Goes Nuts!") about Alan's "Virtual Dean Primal Scream" moment, and second off, now that I realize he's cast himself as a lightweight contender (does any RAT ever boast "I defeated Al Sharpton!"?), I don't see any political downside to the GOP tossing Keyes into the ring.
But other than that, like they say, damn, just damn...