Posted on 07/31/2007 8:27:36 AM PDT by Brian Sears
Let’s see... a guy who’s ran for Senate three times and lost by 24 points (62% - 38% to Sarbanes in 1988), 42 points (71% - 29% to Mikulski in 1992), and 46 points (73% - 27% to Obama in 2004).
While he’s a great guy, he’s unelectable.
And Romney, Giuliani and McCain are...? Flawed or not I'd pay to see Keyes debate them.
Maybe a little later, but not by much...
Hasn’t he been running since Reagan’s first term...
Wonder if Barack Hussein Obama is paying Professor Keyes to do this?
The job I would like to see Alan take is Tony Snow’s job. I’d love to see him lecturing the press gaggle for about 9 hours a day.
Ping!
Just my opinion, but a Keyes/Paul ticket would end up in fourth, behind the dems, the greens and some other third party.
Get a clue, Alan Keyes and Ron Paul may have some good ideas, but they are unelectable on a national ticket.
I picked 01-01-80 because that’s the date that used to come up by default on the old IBM PC XT systems without a battery backup clock inside. You had to set the time and date everytime you booted up or if you ignored it, the date would be 01-01-1980.........
Right! And he could run with Newt as VP candidate. And the Republicans could get all of 7 votes nationwide. Oh, yes.
Wonder if Barack Hussein Obama is paying Professor Keyes to do this?......No, Hillary!......
Keyes would be on the winning end of a debate with any or all of them.
I like Keyes ... voted for him in the 2000 primary (when Bush taking TX was a lock, otherwise would’ve voted for Bush). But, we’ve been there and done that.
Let him get elected to SOMETHING ELSE before going for the highest office again.
I’m already on board with Thompson ... and I like Hunter and Romney a lot. And, Giuliani isn’t terrible - especially on national security.
Though I like Keyes, the Republican Party doesn’t need another candidate - we need to start getting rid of a few (starting with McCain and Paul).
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Probably not — but I’d take him in the Senate.
Or Ditka.
How would he do against Obama? LOL
Oh I remember very well. I have been in IT since, well about 01-01-80...
I think Keyes start to run for president a week later...
No, but we could use a president who took Keyes’s thought seriously.
Very diplomatically put. We don't need him.
He went from showing signs of his flaws in 2000 to proving them in the Illinois Senate race against B. Obama. First by carpetbagging to Illinois after criticizing H. Clinton for doing the same thing in New York and then by his pathetic attempts to out-pander Obama (anybody remember reparations talk?)
Alan Keyes is a brilliant man, but one whose large ego prevents him from being an effective leader and squandered the chances he had.
I won’t make the mistake of supporting him again.
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