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I lost any shred of respect I had for Keyes when his vanity foisted Senator Barack Obama on the formerly great State of Illinois.

Wrong focus. It was Jack Ryan who dropped out of the race and allowed Obama to become the junior senator from Illinois--though he was badly trailing Obama in the polls. And if Keyes was in there at all, it's because the IL GOP put him there. So first blame Obama for the dirty trick of getting Ryan's sealed divorce proceedings released by some partisan judge over the objections of both Ryan and his former wife, then blame Ryan for knuckling under Obama, then blame the IL GOP for thinking they had to come up with some black guy to replace Ryan to run against a somewhat black guy, then blame white voters for not bothering to turn out after Ryan was replaced with Keyes, then blame black voters for being so biased that they would never vote for a black Republican candidate, and then blame Keyes for not winning.

Formerly great state of Illinois? Maybe briefly back in Lincoln's day. The state has been a cesspool of political corruption since the latter 19th century without regard to political party. The Chicago political machine is the only remaining machine still operating since the 19th century in a big city.