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Here’s the deal with Curtis Sliwa, Vernon Jones, and, I’m afraid, Allen West:

They have Alan Keyes Disease. They keep running for offices for which they can’t get elected. In the case of West, when he does get elected, he doesn’t stay and do the work.

Keyes used to talk big, but would only run for the Senate in MD (no chance) or “president.” Why did he never run for Congress and hold a seat for a while and show how he actually would vote on tough issues. (And yes, sooner or later every pol has to make a deal to advance one thing he favors and to vote for something he hates).

The perpetually running politician concerns me. Now, Jones is a “drop down,” that is going from a race for a higher office to a lower one, so I would support him. But perpetual pols like Mike DeWine, who just jumps from one gubment job to another need to go.

Col. West only has run for two offices, that of FL Congressman and TX Governor. He was gerrymandered out of his seat in 2012 after he won it in 2010. I expect he would’ve run for FL Governor before long had he won reelection. He was chosen for the position of TX GOP Chairman, but soon realized (and it was not very surprising) that he preferred to just run straight out for Governor (but could not do that from the chairman position without it being a conflict of interest). So I reject the comparisons in your post.

As for Amb. Keyes, short of moving somewhere else, he was residing in a Congressional district that would not have elected him (though it did send the leftist RINO Connie Morella) in Montgomery County, MD. I lament that he was conned into running that IL Senate race in 2004, when the corrupt GOP wing of the Combine had zero intention of giving him one iota of support.

As for Vernon Jones, I personally wanted to see him face off against the execrable Scaty Abrams. I think Perdue just is another unimpressive establishment hack, and given that his Senate seat was openly stolen from him, he didn’t react in any way to fight the fraud. He may be one click better than the corrupt Kemp, but I see little changing in GA with him. Since Jones is a recent convert politically, I don’t see where he could run for Congress in those two given seats where he would be substantially better than the present people running.

Might be better off having Gov. Perdue appoint him to head up a blue ribbon committee on overseeing GA voter fraud in the state come next January.