Back when he was running for president Alan Keyes was no star in the Republican party. He barely got noticed. He has failed in previous bids for senate and for the white house.
But threatened with the possibility of a young black rising star in the Democratic party running unopposed in the Illinois senate race the R's will fly in Alan Keyes, who himself has spoken against "parachuting in to run for senate", to run against Obama. Look for his former opponents to fly in to Illinois and tout what a wonderful conservative he is and how he shares their... er, I mean "Illinois" values. It could work. After all, if the 2% of the electorate who supported Alan Keyes in his failed bid for the white house all live in this one state, he could do very well indeed.
Watch this one get ugly folks. The R's have formed a very successful team of power brokers who have no problem stepping into states and hand-picking their guys to run for office. They choose their and back heavily their candidates for congress and senate andf now will even transplant a candidate if they want a certain feature (in this case black).
It is up to us to make sure that this tactic doesn't work.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
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