Keyes wasn’t happy angering the Vice President, he decided to use it as a way to criticize Illinois Republican Party Leaders for not pushing a Gay Marriage ban as Missouri just passed. You know, because they have a majority and everything and he’s going to help that condition out a whole lot.
At this point one can offer one other possibility than Alan Keyes just being a loose cannon, and that is that once he sticks his foot in his mouth he just continues to say outrageous things so no one can pin him down on the previous outrageous things. I mean, we haven’t heard anything about automatic weapons and his actual position have we?
How far down is the problem:
Illinois Treasurer and state GOP Chairwoman Judy Baar Topinka – a moderate whose strained relations with Keyes are no secret among Illinois Republicans – sharply criticized his remarks. And even conservatives like state Sen.
Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, bristled.“Those comments are not appropriate,” Brady said from the floor of the convention late Wednesday. “It’s not up to us to judge individuals, it’s up to us to make public policy.”
Brady ran against retiring 15th District Congressman Tom Ewing’s son in the Republican primary. Ultimately Tim Johnson won the primary and eeked out a victory against Mike Kelleher who was then redistricted out by less than a block. Brady and Ewing formed a mutual suicide pact which lost the race against Johnson, of whom the best that can be said is he often didn’t fall down at appearances. Brady and Ewing essentially had supporters try and out Bible Study the others supporters. One could pick up the Pantagraph and find 3-5 letters a day towards the primary in which members of each candidate’s church wrote about what fine Christians each were and that is why you should vote for them often inferring their candidate attended more often than others with such details as the frequency of Bible Study classes.
So when you lose Brady on an issue like this–you got a problem.