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Re your #17:

"Is the GOP going to fund him or hang him out to dry?"

About a year ago Ed Gillespie alluded to the Manchester Union Leader (NH) that Ronald Regan was an embarassment to the new, progressive Republican Party.

And conservative Republicans had better just darned well get used to it, or go vote for Democrats from now on.

By extension, I think it is probably safe to assume that ANY pro-life Pro-Constitution minimal- government Conservative is quietly considered to be an embarassment and a piriah to the "new and improved" Republican Party as much as Regan was - although you wouldn't know that from the recent Regan Funeral, would you?

Of course Gillespie renounced his sentiments of general contempt for REGAN and his conservative ideaology on the LIMBAUGH show a few days after the Union Leader interview went public (here on the FR in the main, it seems) and the GOP came under a barrage of conservative outrage...

But I think that his track record over the past 3 years speaks a lot more clearly than his rhetoric.

It seems that only PC RINOs get much support from the RNC these days, and I expect that if Dr. KEYES gets any support to speak of at all it will come from the proverbial grass-roots little-people, not only in IL but from all over the Country. If Conservative Pubbies rely on Washington to support him, he will indeed, I opine, be "hung out to dry" on no uncertain terms.

I expect that President BUSH will avoid Allan like the plague, and I will be surprised if he even mentions him publicly. If KEYES beat out a darling RINO for the pubbie nomination, I would not be surprised if the RNC covertly does whatever it can to assure an OBAMA victory. I really do - that's about how much I trust Ed G. and the RNC lately.

Were I gainfully employed and in a position to finacially support any political cause, my money would go directly to IL and the KEYES campaign in stead of the RNC, who I stopped giving to even back when I was working... about the time Gillespie, in New Hampshire, disasociated the Republican Party from Ronaldus Magnus - one of the greatest Leaders of the Free World IMHO - as the beloved old "Gipper" lay on his deathbed in California.

And I will henceforth, in all probablility, have about as much respect for Ed Gillespie as I do for Bill Klinton. And that's that.

So it will indeed be a miracle if Dr. K. prevails over the Dem's darling in IL... but most of us know who to approach for miracles, don't we? (And It sure as h@!! ain't Ed Gillespie, is it?!)

But either way, It's gonna be interesting.

Kudos to Dr. KEYES for stepping up to the plate again!