"Sorry maybe you should take medicine for it."
Truth is the best medicine, and you have managed to miss the truth of that election.
"He made a macare out of Illinois Republican Politics and destroyed an election with horrid results."
No, the dinosaur media made a mockery of the election, and the Illinois (and national) Republican establishment set Ambassador Keyes up as a sacrificial lamb, both to avoid exposing one of their own and because they'd been looking for a chance to get rid of him for a decade or more.
Dr. Keyes' uncompromising, principled conservatism won him the loathing of Republican Party Reptiles back during the Reagan years. Finally, they had a chance to send him down for the count.
The only foolish thing Dr. Keyes did was to accept the nomination. I can only presume that his basic decency led him to underestimate the malice of the media and the Republican establishment.
What really happened was that the media were allowed to smear Dr. Keyes with neither restraint nor any consideration for truth, and the Republican Party left him twisting in the wind, with no support whatsoever.
Damage the party? The party set him up.
A guy that can't hang? He should be chairman of the RNC, and the party reptiles that now run things should be put out to pasture.
Stupid statements? He made no stupid statements. He told the truth, and that always drives the media and party reptiles wild with fury.
You need to divorce yourself from the media spin on that whole thing, and look at the things Dr. Keyes actually says -- as opposed to media misrepresentations thereof.