Things I Forgot
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Alan Keyes hunger strike over being kept out of the 1996 GOP Primary Debate.
Innovative Campaign Contribution Strategery
Keyes’ had his campaign site operational into 2002 for the 2000 Presidential race
“if you would like to stop the monthly donations which are being automatically deducted from your credit card, please send an email to jefftaylor@keyes2000.org. Thank you so much for your generous support throughout this cycle!!!”
LaRouchian. No wonder he came to Illinois
Armchair Oppo
I go through all of this because I feel myself always in a little bit of an awkward position when I come into a state like this to campaign for people, because after all is said and done, I believe in federalism, and I think that the folks we send off to Washington from Utah’s Second District, and from Utah’s First District, ought to be people that reflect the views and choices of the people of Utah. It’s not for me to say. I’m from Maryland. I have no choice but to live with a bunch of pro-abortion Republicans, pro-abortion Democrats. I’m consigned to my fate.
Katie in comments again
Trying to Figure This Out
Bush 38
Kerry 54
Last Illinois poll. So a moderately liberal state is not going to get a guy who thinks Bush is too liberal for their Republican Senate nominee.
Has anyone ever heard of the median voter theorem?
From Katie in comments. (thanks)
The Master Debater?
Josh Marshall has a way with words,
Keyes is something else to watch on the hustings or in a debate. But calling him a master debater is rather like saying Dolly Parton has a dynamite bod or Lou Ferrigno is toned — or, perhaps mostly aptly, that the Tasmanian Devil from the Bugs Bunny cartoons is quick on his feet. In other words, impressive in his own way, but also a bit cartoonish and rather less than subtle.
Karl Rove’s Nightmare
“When I said to bury Oberweis, I didn’t mean to go out and find a crazy man!”
“And hell no, we aren’t going to give that man the key note address!”