The biggest problem it highlights is that they do not have a home grown candidate who could win. It will be intereting to follow the race in the black community, though.
I'm looking forward to voting for Alan Keyes -- finally, a black candidate I can vote for! It gets lonely living as a black Republican in Chicago. At the same time, I don't have much hope for Keyes's candidacy. Unless something drastically changes, he will be crushed by a margin of 2:1.
I like the idea of Alan Keyes in the U.S. Senate.
A dose of Alan Keyes may be just what Illinois needs.
There was a news report on a Chicago radio station the Keyes still owes $520,000 for his Y2K presidential campaign and $75,000 in Maryland back taxes.
I'm hoping that the GOP treats Keyes exactly like the Dims treated Obama. Keyes should be delivering the convention keynote.
I wish Alan Keyes had come to Arkansas to run for the Senate.
Yep problems abound thoughout the GOP it seems.....
Dr. Keyes' views are far right.
Translation: They are what would have been referred to a few decades ago as moderate and mainstream.
As with many of us, it isn't Dr. Keyes who has changed. It is simply that the liberal agenda has become increasingly tolerated, condoned, accepted and promoted in our time, making reasonable and mainstream views appear radical by contrast.
Dr. Keyes is a mild-mannered, upright, loving, 1950's moderate who has been transported into our time. He has simply kept the faith while the seas of liberalism have engulfed our country.
I voted for him in the 2000 Presidential primary. He would make a great senator. (He would make a great President.)
I wish him well.
It's the same ol' slant from the liberal press.
Republicans are "deeply divided" between far far extremist right wing Taliban faction and the "moderate" faction, which of course is sensible in the reporter's eyes.
Really. Reporters apparently think that all Republicans are so rigid they cannot accept a person who perhaps thinks slightly differently than themselves.
Although some Repubs may be that way (as are some Dems), I have found the vast majority of Republicans to be very accomedating.
But on the other hand, he would be better than the Blue dog I have.
OK, now this statement is pure BS!
We don't hide it!
So there is going to be a rift between the REAL Republicans and RINO's.
Good.
Ping
The left-wing media is in full attack mode.
Strife? What strife? Many of us have left the Republican Party and are no longer there to cause strife. They'll no longer get my vote.
I like Alan Keyes, and I like the poetry on this thread.
Somehow this guy has to be brought down a few notches.
Does anybody know if he supports gay marriage? If he supports it, that doesn't seem very "mainstream".
How did he vote on granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens who are hiding in Illinois thus discriminating against citizens from other states? Most people I suspect would be opposed to it.
How would he have voted on the ban on partial birth abortions?
I've also hear he is quite the gun grabber. I would imagine thats not very popular outside of Chicago.
I actually rooted for Keyes when he tried to get into the President sweepstakes.
When the Hildabeast comes a-knockin' in 2008, there had better be a black man or woman on the GOP ticket. That bitch is going to cause us no end of trouble.