Posted on 08/24/2004 4:15:41 PM PDT by Willie Green
So, Alan thinks that he will be advancing the pro-life platform with a resounding loss?
When the candidates are an unfailing defender of life and a committed supporter of abortion, I would vote for someone even if I WAS HIS ONLY VOTE!
That's a very tempting proposition, Luis.
Have you extended the same offer to our host?
Vanity: Alan Keyes for Senate
Aug 23, 2004 | Jim Robinson
Jack Ryan would have been a better candidate that Alan. Thanks to the media, we don;t have that choice.
With a very short campaign window, someone with instant name recognition was needed. Ditka would have been great. He said no. Alan has that name recognition.
To answer your question: Alan (even if he loses big) will advance the pro-life platform better than if NO ONE EVEN TRIED TO PRESENT IT.
The MEDIA blasted Ryan out of the race. If Ryan was your man, the media suceeds when you fail to support Keyes. To punish the media for knocking Ryan out of the race, Keyes must do better that Ryan would have done. Republicans are griping at each other over the situation (Keyes in the race.) The media caused the situation and is laughing their heads off and being so much smarter than the GOP.
The ultimate goal for the GOP should be that after the election, there is a big pow-wow of the Dims and media where they ask, "Who is the idiot that knocked Ryan out of the race, WE COULD HAVE BEAT HIM???"
Keyes is going to kill this guy in the debates. It'll be closer than everyone thinks.
What, precisely, are those issues? Also, do you believe that posters on FR should be allowed to campaign against George Bush (and indirecly, for Kerry) if they disagree with Bush as strongly as you seem to disagree with Keyes? Or is it only Keyes that freepers are to be allowed to actively oppose on this site -- even though he's the official Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois?
Sorry, but you're wrong. Read her subsequent posts to me -- explaining why she thinks Keyes' conservatism is a demerit, undermining his electability.
You're right.
These kind of races are ultimately determined by who the electorate perceives as 'Senatorial'.
Keyes is going to make Obama look like the small-timer he really is.
You're already doing that.
LOL. Point semi-taken. What with the surprise nature of it all, yes, I can understand. But... the notion holds true regardless. I believe that after the presidential primaries, Keyes was supportive of Bush. I have no facts to back me up, but I'm pretty sure I would have seen the facts to discount my premise by now.
Dear Willie: I have, with city rabies control. But that doesn't count -- or does it? Maybe like motor voting.
the 'friendlies' have all been told to stfu... but not in so many words.
that includes me.
"Don't you ever know when to shut up?"
Yes, me too, which is why I said what I said about "self"-censoring myself.
There are so many jokes I could crack (mostly warmed-over from the ex-sov-union) but why even bother at this point?
Well yes, of course. He criticized Keys, how was it that they put it? Oh, right -- he criticized him "AFTER he was selected."
You see, those who had any objections should have spoken up before he was selected, like, for example, during the primaries, I guess.
Um, on second thought...
But... but... but... how can it be "wrong", if it works?
See?
There's no dissent after all!
We all love the man.
So you were once again WRONG for predicting that this candidacy would cause divisiveness. There's no dissent at all!
Let's hear it for Cabaret!
Can we all join in a hearty chorus of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"?
I do believe you just trumped Luis, Willie!
Let's hear it for POWER!
Hooray! Etc.
You mean, "Thanks to Jack Ryan, we don't have that choice," right?
It was JR who did whatever it was he did that gave the media whatever it was that they had. And it was JR who withdrew from the race.
Voluntarily.
For whatever reason, JR chose to do something that gave "the media" something they could use for talk-fodder, and by the same token JR chose to call it quits.
"The media" didn't play any part in it, other than the "TUVM, Jack" part.
Fantastic!
Now, how do we get them to suspend the elections, so that "the debates" will suffice "for purposes of election"?
Do you believe that the GOP will benefit if FR is shut down for CFR violations?
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