Call It A Comeback
Nice Dodge–can you use that line up until November 1st?
Thompson told reporters today that he thinks it’s sad that the party could not find someone from Illinois because there were a number of people who were willing to do so.
The popular former governor also says he has not endorsed Keyes or agreed to campaign for him because he does not know enough about his positions.
I think the theme of the Republicans this year is “unfortunate”
A screeching religious right fanatic, Keyes, who has worn a lapel pin featuring the feet of a fetus, is Jerry Falwell as played by Little Richard
A far cry from when Daniels was only raising money for a legal defense fund.
The Cross guys are doing a good job remaking the Republican Caucus. They are going to need it this year given the debacle at the top of the ticket. They have some impressive candidate, but I think everyone’s fear is that they might get drowned out in Keyes’ act and that is too bad. Parties keep each other honest and competitive elections are key to that. I think this year will be an interesting test of whether innovative campaign techniques can overcome larger problems beyond the control of the house campaign.
ACTION: Britney Spears reportedly may have a public role at the upcoming
GOP convention. Bad idea. Spears is a very poor role model for girls,
promoting sexual promiscuity, immodesty and even lesbianism. Highlighting
her as a ?Republican celebrity? sends the wrong message for a party
claiming to represent family values.
While you?re at it, encourage the Republicans to feature truly pro-life,
pro-family leaders–like Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, newly-chosen
Illinois Senate candidate Alan Keyes, and Oklahoma Senate candidate Tom
Coburn–during primetime at their convention.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Call the Republican National Convention in New York
at 212-356-2004. They will probably connect you to their comment line.
(The direct number for the Convention comment line is 212-356-2058.) Or
you can e-mail them at convention@rncconvention.org.
Also, call Ed Gillespie, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, at
202-863-8700. Fax: 202-863-8774. E-mail: Chairman@gop.com.
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
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BACKGROUND: The Chicago Sun-Times reports today that the pop diva Britney
Spears is among the celebrities being wooed by the Republicans to add
glamour appeal to their upcoming convention in New York City (August
30-September 1). This would be a huge mistake.
Whether it?s her overnight ?marriage? (and then annulment) to an old
boyfriend in Las Vegas, her ?lesbian chic? lip-locking with Madonna, or
her general immodesty–mimicked by millions of young girls and women the
world over–Spears is a bad role model for our daughters and
granddaughters. Giving her a public role at the Republican Convention
sends the message that ?family values? is not really important to the GOP,
or that it is merely a slogan used to woo certain constituencies.
Call the GOP and their convention hotline and tell them not to give Spears
a role at the convention. Through her immature antics, Spears has probably
done more to undermine sexual morality than all the misguided legislation
introduced in the United States over the last decade. It would be the
height of hypocrisy for a party that claims to represent wholesome values
to celebrate her.
Thanks for getting involved for the sake of Illinois? and America?s
children.
Sincerely,
Peter LaBarbera
Illinois Family Institute
www.illinoisfamily.org
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You know, I come at it from a different direction, but yeah, she is a bad role model for young girls.
Then there’s the problem of the quality of the music…..
From the inbox, more detail on the Keyes debts which I’m still trying to figure out how he reduced over $180,000 in about a month. Or why anyone accepted that answer.
“Unpaid Debts – Keyes denies responsibility.
Keyes was happy to take $100,000/year as salary from his 1992 Senate
campaign, but when it came time to pay that same campaign’s debts, he
said: “I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.”
That was about $45,000, which was unpaid from 1992 through the end of
1996, according to the FEC. Of course, if he hadn’t paid himself so much
money, he would have had plenty to pay off that debt.Keyes told a reporter that the money will be paid off — by the
campaign, not by him of course — but several creditors said Keyes
hadn’t communicated with them years later. In 1995-1996, for example,
his 1992 Senate campaign received $34,821 and spent over $15,000, but he
couldn’t manage to pay off any of that debt.Finally, some time during 1997-1998, Keyes paid off most of this money.
The FEC reports show that he spent $49,544 during that time, and
reimbursed $41,094 worth of loans, but somehow he managed to end up
still owing more than $34,000 for his 1992 Senate race at the end of the
reporting period. Presumably he took on new loans to pay the old ones
(though the FEC data doesn’t give enough detail to be sure.)Incidentally, Keyes still owes over $200,000 on his 1996 presidential
campaign as well. At the end of 1996, he owed $350,000; since then, he
has raised over $1,000,000 for a campaign that is over, but spent even
more ($1,099,972) and only reduced his debt by $150,000.In 1995, his campaign wrote over $20,000 in bad checks, which his
spokesman blamed on a former campaign aide.”
Some of this is more understandable. The reason he rasied over $1,000,000 while spending more is he is probably doing low dollar mail fundraising. Other wingnuts do this like Bill Federer. They send out scary mail to supporters usually with Clinton thrown in every other sentence and homosexual in the other sentences. When it works it can be lucrative, but it has huge costs in sending out that much mail. He probably lost more than he pulled in. I haven’t gone through the FEC records to check, but usually fringe candidates are best positioned to use this sort of system.
Rich Miller has a poll up to guess what you think Keyes will get in November.
The real question maybe who can FREEP it the best.
Where will Keyes come out on O’Hare expansion and exactly will he connect it to Natural Law, The Declaration and, of course, moral principle?
Taking a moment away from kicking a man while he still thinks he’s standing, Rodney Alexander switched parties as the last minute before filing. This didn’t allow any Democrats to get in the race.
A voter in Louisiana is filing a legal challenge to defective Congressman Rodney Alexander’s ballot qualification, and seeks an injunction preventing the Secretary of State from issuing ballots printed with his name. The petition, filed by a voter and based on both Louisiana statute and prior precedent, rightly argues that Alexander’s SECOND filing 20 minutes before the deadline is in effect a withdrawal of his candidacy under Louisiana law since candidates are prohibited from amending their ballot qualification in any way once it has been made. Others in Louisiana have been tossed for just this kind of behavior in the past. Look for a news releases from multiple parties soon…
Or as James Carville pointed out:
James Carville said Alexander “was known as the stupidest Democrat in Louisiana, which would probably make him the smartest Republican in Washington.”
I don’t care much if you switch parties, but that was pretty sleazy and it may just backfire.
As AM points out in comments, Rodney may want to think about a race here in Illinois in 2008. Dick Durbin will need an opponent and we see how these things are going.
Barack more closely reflects the Illinois voters’ views
Don’t look at me–I voted for Keyes!
Mike Murphy takes a swing at his mail box which is filling with pro-Keyes diatribes:
Median Voter Theorem, people, median voter theorem.
Complaint two is fun:
“Dear Secular Satan, you and your godless pals at the NY Times don’t get it. Alan Keyes is a beacon of moral clarity in a time when dark forces portend a holocaust upon the innocent unborn. Trash like your so-called article doesn’t belong in The Weekly Standard. It is an honor and credit to the GOP that Amb. Keyes is running with such great courage and . . .” etc, etc.
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