It’s hard to believe Alan’s time in Illinois is almost half-way done, but here are the top ten events for Alan Keyes’ first month and one-half.
10. Jim Edgar is left Speechless when he learns Thompson isn’t supporting Keyes
9. The Economist chimes in on the Keyes selection in a biting editorial
The Illinois Republicans are not just guilty of tokenism. They are guilty of last-minute scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel tokenism. The local party has been undergoing a sort of collective mental breakdown ever since Jack Ryan’s Senate candidacy collapsed in June over a sordid sex scandal.
8. Okay, 8 didn’t really happen during the campaign, but this makes me giggle:
7. Denny Hastert, the first of many, offers up an alibi as to how Keyes was chosen.
5. GOP Political Operative Mike Murphy reflects on the Alan Keyes candidacy and then responds to his critics
4. State Senator Dave Syverson responds to General JC Christian’s suggestion that to get out Keyes out of the race, Syverson and Rauschenberger stage a three-way with Keyes at Wrigley Field.
2. Keyes Launches into Walter Jacobson during a morning interview. Keyes creates actual sympathy for Walter, something long unheard of in Chicago.
1. Keyes Declares There is a Smelly Toad in the Room
There’s much, much more if you follow this link
Wait…is that a real picture of Keyes? Please, please, please tell me it is. Please.
Yep, it’s real-from his site.
I think I’d bump JC Christian’s brush with Syverson up a notch. Smelly Toad and the exchange with Walter are classics that will be replayed and cherished again and again.
Oh, cheeze… they’re all good — and the debates haven’t even started yet!
hysterical. Thanks.
Alan Keyes, We Love Thee
Archpundit has compiled a list of the top ten Alan Keyes moments in his now-legendary disaster of a run for the US Senate. Bonus: Alan Keyes goes cowboy. Go.
“Smelly Toad?”
Wasn’t that the song Lisa Kudrow used to sing on “Friends”?
Awww will someone please tell this guy that his 15 mins are up. Failed presidential candidate, failed talk show host, soon to be failed (2x) senate candidate.
Time to go away and work on the message. Note to Keyes: people don’t like being preached to (or ‘at’ for that matter) Whoever thought this bitter old scold would make a refreshing contrast to an optimistic , charismatic Obama?
Rhetorical question… I know the answer.
Make that *3x* failed Senate candidate…