Illinois GOP Hates Keyes.....but they're stuck with him.

[No2W2004]

When the dumb ass made his statements about Dick Cheney's daughter and Homosexuality being "a sin and an abomination" it finally made the Illinois GOP leaders stand up and basically call Keyes an idiot and an extremist. It should be very clear now to everyone in Illinois, that no one wants him here and his candidacy is a joke.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Yeah, but it allows them to write this race off as an aberration easier.

What would have happened had they selected a REAL candidate and still lost?

[No2W2004]

3. Yeah, I knew they gave up on this election,

but it's great to see them have to go on TV and badmouth their own canidate. Also, it's starting to come out on TV how Keyes was forced on them by Hassert and the National GOP. What started out to be a joke is now becoming a huge train wreck.

[Tempest]

2. Illinois GOP can thank Karl Rove

It was Rove who forced Keyes on Illinois.

It's still a mystery why an Illinois resident couldn't be found to run against Obama.

[No2W2004]

4. It's no mystery

There isn't time to mount an effective campaign against Obama. None of the strong GOP canidates wanted to run, so they were gonna bring up some hack with name recognition, but the national GOP forced Keyes on them so they could run "our black man" against "their black man". Pure stupidity in action.

[cap]

5. the other thing is that Keyes is a good debatern

and a little more experienced than obama... i think the GOP is hoping to trip up obama and have him make some statement that can be used against him, if not now, then in the future.

[Kid_A]

9. Even if Obama admits to keeping severed heads in his freezer

he's still gonna make Alan Keyes his bitch.

[LDS Jock]

6. I was embarrassed for the gop last night

No one had a chance against Obama anyway, but is that the best they could find to run against him? Me and my sister were watching it together and neither of us could believe what we just heard. We just sat their with our jaws dropped.

[terrya]

7. I think Keyes treats this as just a big publicity stunt.

He has the proverbial snowball's chance in hell of winning, so the Senate race is just a way to keep people from forgetting that he's still around. It makes Keyes relevant.

He's rapidly burning his bridges in this state, so I suggest he has his bags already packed. :-)

[nickgutierrez]

8. Alan Keyes strikes me as the kind of guy...

that will do anything to get attention. Most people have a certain amount of restraint, but not Alan - he'll say or do whatever it takes to get people to look at him.

Either that, or he's nuts.