Defying all the odds, Alan Keyes becomes even more loony with each passing day
November 18th, 2008 at 11:47am Pat Cunningham
Remember Alan Keyes?
He’s the guy who ran a quixotic (to put it politely) race here in Illinois against Democrat Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat back in 2004.
Keyes, who had gained some national notice when he ran for president in 1996 and 2000, was recruited for the Illinois contest by Rockford State Sen. Dave Syverson, among others, when the winner of the GOP primary had to drop out in a sex scandal.
Keyes didn’t even live in Illinois, but the Republican poohbahs seemed to figure that their own articulate black guy could fare well against Obama, so they got him to move here from Maryland.
The result was a disaster. Keyes pompously declared that his candidacy was “God’s will,” and opined that Jesus Christ wouldn’t vote for Obama. He referred to Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter as “a selfish hedonist” and denounced all homosexuals, including his own daughter.
Keyes quickly became a statewide joke and ended up with only 27 percent of the vote.
When he slinked away from that humiliation, I figured we’d seen the last of Keyes. But, with hardly anybody noticing, he launched another candidacy for president in late 2007. Predictably, it came to naught.
Now Keyes is BACK IN THE NEWS, nuttier than ever. This time, he’s found common cause with the zanies who contend that Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is not qualified to become president.
Incidentally, HERE’s the truth about Obama’s birth.
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9 Comments Add your own
1. LD | November 18th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Could Obama beat a man who can affect the weather according to his mood? I think maybe Obama could beat a mini Ditka, but it would be very close.
2. Pat Cunningham | November 18th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
A Ditka-Obama race would, indeed, have been fun, but I don’t think it would have been close. Ditka isn’t very smart.
3. Billybeermonicagar | November 18th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Pat, I knew it! You are a Packer fan!
4. Craig Knauss | November 19th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
You can fool all of the people some of the time. And some of the people all of the time. And that should be sufficient (for most politicians).
5. dudessabides | November 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Remember who brought Keyes to Illinois? Wasn\’t it Dave Syverson of Market Insurance Group?
6. Milton Waddams | November 19th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Reason enough to vote out Dave Winters.
7. dudessabides | November 19th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Why won’t the rrstar tell the people of Rockford that a tax was levied on them for the Rockford Metro Center, and that their state senator, Dave Syverson gets a couple of million dollars a year for selling insurance to the Rockford Metro Center via “Market Insurance Group, Inc.”? What a crappy newspaper, and the only daily paper we have!
8. dudessabides | November 19th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Cunningham, tell it like it is! You have been around here for a long time. Stick your neck out and tell it like it is! Freedom of speech is necessary for democracy to work. Help us!
9. Mr. Baseball | November 19th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Palin-Keyes, the Republican dream team in 2012. It’s God’s will.
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