Keyes chasing tail in Illinois
Published September 24, 2004
The big picture one garners from reading about the Keyes campaign is of a megalomaniac eager for attention, not a political hopeful with plans to solve the country's problems. Mike Murphy, a Republican political advisor may have summed him up best.
"The Illinois Republican Party is so beat down," he added. "My theory is that Keyes has a small but very vocal following, made up mostly of people from the pro-life movement, and when all else failed, some of the grassroots activists started agitating for Keyes," Murphy said.
. . .Murphy thinks any number of in-state Republicans, including the tainted [Jack] Ryan, would have been a wiser choice than Keyes.
"My view was they should have found some nice young state representative. He could have lost with honor. That would have been better than bringing in a man from another state who jumps from entertaining oratory to madness in about a nanosecond."
I find myself watching Alan Keyes for the same reasons I watch my neighbor's puppy chase cars. The spectacle is entertaining. And, perhaps both Keyes and the puppy will wise up.
Note: This entry also appeared at Mac-a-ro-nies.
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- Published: September 24, 2004
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Yeah, Keyes is a nutjob. But I do admire his "screw political correctness" attitude. He says what he thinks, no matter what the blowback might be. Not too many people go out on that ladder.
Win or lose, you know where he stands. And if he only gets one vote, you'll know that it was from Jesus, because Jesus wouldn't vote for Obama :)
The most weird part to me is Keyes trying to distinguish himself from Mrs. Clinton in regard to running in a state he is not from.
"To sacrifice respect for state sovereignty and true representational integrity for the sake of personal ambition and a personal agenda, as Hillary Rodham Clinton did, is wrong. I deeply condemn it. But to be called by the Illinois state party to come and defend the principles of our national union against someone who, on a whole range of issues, rejects those principles is in fact not only to act in the interest of federalism, it is to act in the deep interests of the people of Illinois, who share with me a commitment to those principles."
I think it translates into 'I'm Alan Keyes, bitch.'
good one Mac!
Both the tax thing and the Jesus comment seem like pitches to the extreme right (like the Patriot movement and to Christian fundamentalists, respectively).
There are a few African-American members of those movements, believe it or not. One of the strangest things I've ever seen in the blogosphere was LaShawn Barber promoting a movement to develop a Christian Identity 'state' spearheaded by the former head of Texas' League of the South.
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Keyes is a nutjob. Remember that crack about 'If Jesus lived in Chicago today, he would not vote for Barack Obama.' What in the world kinda comment was that? I mean, it is disturbing on more levels than my beer addled brain can handle.