Posted on 10/11/2004 11:11:38 AM PDT by SJackson
In '86 the Demmocrats nominated two LaRouchies for the posts of secretary of state and lt. governor.
The result was almost a decade and a half of Reopublican dominance.
George Ryan's corruption and now the Keyes candidacy is going to do much the same for the Democrats.
Your equation of Alan Keyes' campaign, one in which he has faced open hostility from even members of his own party, with the corruption of Ryan, is unfair.
What I'm saying is the the cumulative effect of the two is going to make the GOP uncompetative for years.
It doesn't have to be so.
Clean out the failed leadership, rebuild the grassroots organization, raise up and empower some new leaders, and I think people will be shocked at how quickly the GOP can succeed.
Downstate — even the part south of I-70 — does not have a Bible Belt mentality.
The culture war doesn't sit well with those folks.
Manzullo and the other goofs who brought Keyes into the race have done real damage to the GOP.
The Republicans have ont proven that they can govern, so they'll be on the outside looking inb for some time.
For instance, we had license plates made to last four years for sixteen years, it took a Democrat in office for us to get new plates.
Folks make judgments on little things like that.
Obviously all Keyes' fault.
/sarcasm
They want good government, not an out-of-stater yelling at them about stuff that doesn't amount to a pinch if manure to them.
Sorry man, but you're just plain wrong.
Alan has been a property rights leader for many years.
He is an advocate for fundamental tax reform.
He brings more to the table for them over the long haul then just about anyone I can think of.
Face it, Keyes is not going to be elected and in fact never had a ghost of a chance of being elected.
Politics is the art of the possible and Keyes was never a viable possibility.
I have a friend who is a die-hard Republican.
He was a member of the John Birch Society for a time back in the '60s and '70s.
Right now his yard is full of signs for Bush and other GOP candidates.
But he voted against George Ryan because he was a crook and he's voting against Keyes because he considers him to be a crackpot.
Not if led by people who think that leach Keyes is the new Messiah, the great savior of the Illinois Republican Party, the grand poobah of "Conservatism". Lesson 101 of politics is that you have to win to change policies. Keyes is a "feel good" candidate. All he does is make the extreme nut cases feel good that they have someone speaking for them. Little do they know they only represent 17% of the state. Wouldnt that be something if a write in of Oberweiss exceeded Keyes actually vote total. LOL
I will restrain myself from saying what I really think of you for deposting that steaming pile here on a thread at Free Republic.
Then why doesnt the goof ball talk about those topics instead of getting sidelined into gaybashing, abortion, and racial reparations. The cultural conservatives are already going to vote for him whether he mentions those topics or not (wink wink) and racial reparations are not going to buy him a single vote. Those that would be interested reparations are already going to vote for Obama.
Obamas speech at the Dem convention was to position him as this great moderate. Keyes has done more to make Obama look moderate than anything that Obama himself could ever do.
He has talked about all those issues in great depth; far greater depth than most all other candidates ever do. But the Dems, the media and the RINOs ignore it...just like you do.
And unfortunately, to date, too many Illinoisans have listened to you all instead of to him.
No, its because of everything that proceeds from Keyes mouth. If the media reported everything that Keyes did and said and was completely unbiased, Keyes would still find a way to turn out more than 75% of the electorate. The American people can generally detect kooks by just listening to what the candidates do and say.
Good, then you wont embarass yourself the way Keyes has the people of Illinois.
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