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Keyes Blames Media, GOP for Loss in Ill.

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Posted by Steve White 2004-11-05 12:30:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Calling your opponent, the press, and the voters who disagree with you "evil" is a sure-fire way to get 20% of the vote in any election.

The exceptions to this are Democrats.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-05 1:00:49 AM|| 2004-11-05 1:00:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Keyes needs to go into teaching. He is too freaking smart and honest to be a good politican.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-05 1:42:14 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-05 1:42:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 To think I actually voted for this guy in the 2000 primaryn in WI. I did like his tax policy but on a lot of things this guy is as off the wall as a San Francisco moonbat. Keep an eye on Obama, he is one of the few rising stars the Dims have o the national scene

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-05 6:10:06 AM|| 2004-11-05 6:10:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Keyes was right to call Hiliary a carpet bagger 4 years ago. Perhaps he should look in the mirror.

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2004-11-05 8:18:13 AM|| [http://www.DouglasDeBono.com] 2004-11-05 8:18:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Keyes is right about the Republican party in Illinois, though. Essentially there's just one big, corrupt party in Illinois (John Kass of the Tribune calls it "the Combine"). A pox on the whole lot of them.

Posted by Spot 2004-11-05 9:17:51 AM|| 2004-11-05 9:17:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well at least Keyes beat the over/under: he got more than 20%.

As for Obama - lets see if he walks the walk of an old-time Democrat, goaing against Kennedy and the liberals at times, or if the Michael Moore Demcorat Party moral black hole pulls him in to its gravitational field and crushes the decency out of him.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-11-05 9:18:19 AM|| 2004-11-05 9:18:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "The People have spoken. The bastards."

Once again, the voters have rejected The Superior Candidate because they are stupid, deluded, mind-controlled or fill-in-the-blank. Funny how often this seems to happen. One would think not getting any votes would be some sort of hint.

Posted by SteveS 2004-11-05 9:22:58 AM|| 2004-11-05 9:22:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Well thanks, Spot..
As an Illinios republican, who voted for Keyes ONLY to let the republican party know there are a few of us left!
Actually Kass was pretty funny on wed when he said "...political scientists therorize that angry brimestone and fire warnings of eternal damnation sometimes corospond to low voter response"
And the Illinois republican party is no longer corrupt, but rather a gutted vacant burned out crack house. The last republican Gov. Ryan will be sitting in the can, along with his beloved death row imates who he didn't let out by this time next year. His main "Piggy" has decided to squeal and turn states evidence.
Of course, the rest of the Chicago machine is in the hands of Mayor Daley, so it is squeaky clean now : )

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Posted by Capsu78 2004-11-05 9:58:47 AM|| 2004-11-05 9:58:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Tell Keyes he can go shave now...somebody?!

Posted by smn 2004-11-05 10:06:25 PM|| 2004-11-05 10:06:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I knew, from the start, that Keyes was not going to win, and I think he knew also. Most of his supporters did. He IS intelligent and honest. However, he disappointed by not using his oratorical talents to raise the level of debate, give memorable civics lessons, and essentially provide fodder for conservative blogs.

Posted by Ptah 2004-11-06 5:26:06 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-11-06 5:26:06 AM|| Front Page Top

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