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.