Too conservative huh? Maybe they should run the usual suspects.
Looks like Keyes is on track to getting his usual 29% of the vote.
The Republicans would have been better off letting Obama win unopposed than letting him use this crackpot as a foil.
I support opposition to any lefty, anytime.
Better to try and lose trying than to give up without a fight.
Osama needs to get knocked down a few notches anyway.
" Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt, Speech to the Hamilton Club, April 10, 1899
And I was attacked as a "defeatist" for predicting Keyes would not win this election.
Keyes chances ARE slim, but not impossible. This is a good baseline poll in a race that he finally has some slight chance of winning.
Oh yeah - let's put a RINO in instead of a REAL conservative! Or better yet - let a communist just take it all without a fight.
Will you roll over when you are living in the Estado de Aztlan also?
You say Keyes is a nut? Well, 'ambrose', what makes him so nutty and incompetent then? What specifically?
"The Republicans would have been better off letting Obama win unopposed than letting him use this crackpot as a foil."
Please elaborate in support of this brilliant stance. I need to obsorb a portion of your wisdom. How does the IL DEMs funding other Senate races and Obama campaigning for other Dem contenders help the IL GOP?
PLease educate my simple self
The last IL Senate race in 2002 had Dick Durbin spending $5.8 million to win 60% of the vote. The Republican James Durkin spent $ 775k to win 38% of the vote.
To be fair, probably quite a few dems voted for Durkin (R), thinking they were voting for Durbin (D). I have heard democrats have problems with divining the mysteries of ballots and voting for the wrong guy in the past.
In any case, all Keyes has to do is jump 20% points in the polls without totally freaking out the electorate.
If nothing else this sure will be an entertaining race. Lets hope the debate is televised.
I agree, but on the bright side maybe it will convince some of the die-hards that their man really isn't electable? (A girl can wish, can't she?)
Keyes is no crackpot. He is a brilliant man and the debate he will make (win or lose) will bring the electorate closer to the right for the future.
When he embraces an extremist position on abortion that countenances even the murder of living young children outside the womb, Barack Obama abandons the principles of our Declaration and destroys the foundations of our national union
Too conservative huh? Maybe they should run the usual suspects.