She used the state of NY as a platform for her own personal ambition.

[LynneSin]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HYPOCRITICAL ASSHOLE!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/09/keyes.illinois/


CROWLEY: Mr. Keyes ... you criticized Hillary Clinton for going to New York, and we have to at least discuss the carpetbagger issue. You have said, look, I don't know what the issues are in Illinois, I'm going to listen. But is that ... this close to an election, really a bumper sticker you can run on?

KEYES: Well, I think I have addressed the issue of the very deep differences between what I am doing and Hillary Clinton. She used the state of New York as a platform for her own personal ambition.

I had no thought of coming to Illinois to run until the people here in the state party decided there was a need. Just as people faced with a flood, or people in the case of 9/11, would call on folks, firefighters and others to help them deal with the crisis that they were faced with.

The people in Illinois have called on me to help deal with what they regard as a crisis. But from the point of view of my own personal principles, I believe in federalism. And I had to think this through based on my respect for the principle of state sovereignty.

[Frodo]

1. Does ANYONE rise to the level of Senator

without at least a LITTLE "political ambition"?


For goodness sake, the man ran for President twice!

[LynneSin]

2. and US Senate twice.......IN MARYLAND

:eyes:

[trumad]

5. Keyes is a wonderful gift to the Democrats in Illinois.

And I mean wonderful.

[blondeatlast]

7. I think he's a wonderful gift to Democrats everywhere; the more

he talks, the better we look.

The Repug spinners need to get a lid on him FAST.

[lottie244]

3. Alan Keyes has been a self-agrandizing, self-centered elitest for a long

time. He's in it for the money. He makes millions from the Rethugs and he knows he couldn't make it any other way. Can anyone name one job he has held that wasn't a phony way to funnel money to him to get him to speak out against blacks and liberals?

[spooky3]

4. How is helping flood victims comparable to trying to get Repugs. power

in IL?

[Julien Sorel]

6. Has anyone out and out asked him what kind of deal

the Ill. GOP offered him to run? I think that's something he should be battered with, not because he needs battering, but because it underscores how underhanded the GOP has been over the past several years (Arnie, 2000, Texas redistricting, and so on). There's the outline of a pattern here, a party that will do anything or pay whatever it takes to win, and to hell with the forms of democracy. That case needs to start being made.

[blondeatlast]

9. I'm surprised the repugs aren't running away from him. How stupid

do they think the Illinois voters are?

[blondeatlast]

8. Daily showed a tape last night of him on Tim Russert

dragging Hillary through the grit over that and SPECIFICALLY saying HE WOULD NOT MOVE OUT OF MARYLAND TO RUN. He didn't just condemn her, he said HE WOULD NOT DO IT.

We need to hammer this home. This is a "God-fearing" man, who lied in front of Tim Russert, God, and everybody.

He is such a whack job.

[Inland]

10. Yeah, Obama is a flood and Keyes must rescue us. What a tool.

[CarolynEC]

11. I'd say 11, maybe an even dozen if the weather is nice...

... on election day. That's about how many votes I'd expect Keyes to get.

I mean, really, are there even any Republicans in Illinois who'll actually cast a vote for this guy? The whole thing is just bizarr-o.