“Had Keyes won we would likely not be in the fix we are now.”
And we know this because? Hasn’t he lost about a dozen races for public office so far? Dog Catcher had to have been one of them. He didn’t get close to any others. I think 30% or so is his best showing. There must be a reason...just a guess, but I don’t think ALL of his races were lost because they were Dem districts.
Maryland and Illinois. What else do you need to know?
Because like this race this election the GOP nominee is decided in backrooms in NYC and DC long before the primaries. The last person to break through the Country Club GOP barrier and win wads Reagan. Besides that none in my lifetime and I was born in the 1950's. The only media outlet that gave Keyes honest coverage was N.E.T. a TV network Paul Weyrich once had. Keyes was making Conservative sense while NEWT, Lott, Dole, etc were selling us out. Thank you Sir may I have another says the blind sheep too Newt.
We will not see a conservative POTUS until the GOP is no more. The GOP is home of Liberal Lite and Conservatives for the most part are simply not welcome no more. Look at the comments against Coburn as an example.
Solution is simple one of two answers. Liberal GOP change parties and GO BACK to being Dems as many were before 1994 or forming a Third Party with Conservative values and platform on all issues leaving liberal republicans to return too their former party -D.
As it stands today we have one ruling parting in the United States and that is The Liberal Party which is taken from the DEM and GOP then united in agenda. Had enough yet? I have. I dare say we may even need for some states to leave the union. Ones on the upper Atlantic seaboard, two on the Great Lakes, and split Cali into two states from northern San Francisco south too Mexico. For that matter give southern Cali to Mexico. The same mentality who voted for The Arnoid twice would likely vote Mitt or Newt as well.