did you SEE it? did you SEE how CRAZY he is?

[buycitgo]

Keyes just accepted on CLTV

his son was standing next to him, trying to be stonefaced, but every so often, he couldn't hold back slight grimaces, smiles, etc

you could TELL he didn't want to be there

his VERY LAST words on accepting would that his victory would be:
"FOR GOD!!!!"

this isn't even going to be funny, like I thought

can you say TRAINWRECK?

[BayCityProgressive]

1. They are only running him

to throw some red meat to nazi evangelicals that make up the republican base around the rest of the country. They know they have no chance at defeating Obama.

[Somawas]

2. They are running him because

he's blac, conservative and available.

[mermaid]

4. Exactly!

And I don't wanna hear another word outta the GOP's mouth about hillary "carpetbagging" New York, because, if they do...i'm throwing Keyes right in thier faces!!
Don't matter. Obama's gonna win.

[freetobegay]

3. Can anyone here say LOSER?

How many will this make now?

[Walt Starr]

6. Keyes is worse than a loser, he's a PROFESSIONAL LOSER

His first campaign was his highest percentage of the vote, 38.2% against Paul Sarbanes in 1988 for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland.

His second campaing was far worse. He only took 29% of the vote against Barbara Mikulski for the OTHER Maryland U.S, Senate Seat in 1992.

In 1996, he launched a failed bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

In 2000, he ran once again the the GOP presidential nomination. He often complained he did not have enough funding for TV ads. He was paying himself an exhorbitant salary out of campaign funds and ended the campaign owing over a half million dollars. He claims he does not personally owe the money, his campaign owes the money.

As he was paid to lose the 2000 GOP presidential nomination race, he became a PROFESSIONAL LOSER!!!!!

This was obviously a major criteria looked for by the Illinois SCC in a Senate candidate this year. They must have thought all of the in-state candidates stood too much of a chance to win!

[ieoeja]

11. That is why he's running now.

Wanna bet he again puts himself on his campaign's payroll for a nice tidy sum?

[Radical Activist]

5. I think Obama's chances are better now that he has an opponent

Keyes is a shameless self promoter. This will help his next book or radio show make a little more money and that is all this is about for him.

[buycitgo]

7. I forced myself to listen to Mr. Tom Roeser tonight

It was like being stuck in a tent full of snakehandling holy rollers in WVA

they had Tom, a former vet, a former (?) cop, and Joe Moore, somebody trying to hold up Obama's end

the cop and the vet, an African American, were taking turns making the most outrageously wingnutty pronunciamentos, ranging from accusing Obama of being a socialist who helped drive business out of the state, to some hilarious conflations of the declaration of independence/live fetus act/abortion. they gleefully ganged up on Moore, along with EVERY caller.

They were ALL CERTAIN that Keyes is going to win! And the callers were the best caricatures you could possibly imagine. If they hadn't been so inarticulate, ignorant, and delusional, I'd have thought some very clever satirist was at work.

YOU LIBERALS have ruined the country! Our nation HANGS IN THE BALANCE on the issue of abortion!

on and on. I could hear Moore stifling some laughter a few times.
Couldn't help thinking of those halcyon days back in the old Munchen bierhausen, where right minded people gathered together to plan the next thousand years.

Moore finally got to say, near the end, that he was very HAPPY to hear that this was what Keyes platform, along with rolling back gun control, eliminatint Social Security AND the IRS

pretty cool stuff, huh?

oh yeah, VOUCHERS for all, of course

can you say 80-20?

or will he just drop out, when it gets closer to the numbers Bush will poll vis a vis Black/White, which will be closer to 95 percent this time than his 92 last time

thoughts?

god, that was entertaining, if you like to see a Reality version of One Flew Over the Wingnuts' Nest

great stuff

[mopinko]

9. joe moore is my alderman

up here on the edge of the city. part of jan schakowsky's district. good pol, for a poll.

[murielm99]

8. That stupid Syverson was the MC.

He is a Rockford wingnut, and I get to see his stupid face on TV here all the time.

He said that the difference between Hillary and Keyes is that Hillary "pushed her way in" and Keyes was invited!

Gag!

[buycitgo]

10. some congressman gave a fairly long, windy intro, too

then, when AK got going really well, he was in the background, looking like the title of that Jimmy Buffet song: I Wish I Was Somewhere Other Than Here (sittin' in some honky tonk, sippin' on a beer)