ButterflyBlood
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:23 PM
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What if the Republicans had gotten David Duke to run in Illinois instead? |
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Would he be doing that much worse than Keyes right now?
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:27 PM
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1. Duke would be doing better. |
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Why? Because a lot of the whackos who like Keyes' stand on social issues won't vote for a black man.
The logical thing would have been for the repukes to run a local guy who could have gotten some name recognition that would benefit him in a future race. Why they decided to import a carpetbagger with enough 'baggage' to fill entire freight car is beyond me. They aren't always smart and cagey apparently.
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:29 PM
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2. actually what they could've done |
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is found some janitor in Peoria, put his name on the ballot, not run a campaign, and still get 40%.
Instead they import a guy who'll be lucky to break 30% and can't even pull 50% of Republicans in the latest poll. Intelligence isn't the GOP's strong suit.
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:30 PM
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3. I Concur on Their Lack of Smartness & Caginess |
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After all, they gave serious consideration at one time to Mike Ditka! Only Ditka's wife had enough common sense to call for an end to the nonsense.
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:35 PM
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6. What was funny, was, I heard some wingnut radio host here in TX trying |
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to rationalize how Ditka would be a good choice, on the basis that he was a total outsider to Washington/politics and had "common man/common sense". Of course these same guys would totally lambaste any Dem candidate who was just a celebrity thrown into the ring.
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:58 PM
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9. I think they were very smart and cagey. |
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They made the most of a lost cause by running loudmouth Keyes.
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:33 PM
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5. I have the impression that good old Illinois politics |
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worked to our advantage in this case. I think that the national Republican Party was appalled when Keyes was chosen. Who knows what happened?
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:36 PM
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7. So the Keyes decision came regionally and not dictated down from |
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the national party organization?
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:32 PM
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4. Wouldn't matter. Duke? Keyes? Just red meat for the rubes. |
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They saw the writing on the wall. They knew they'd never beat Barak. So they sent a sacrificial lamb so they could whip up the fundies and make them feel all persecuted and stuff.
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Sun Oct-10-04 12:38 PM
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Edited on Sun Oct-10-04 12:38 PM by rchsod
have gotten more votes than keyes, that is a given...scary isn`t it..
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Sun Oct-10-04 01:20 PM
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10. Correct. I suspect that a lot of Illinois voters will not bother |
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to vote for Senate, thinking it's a foregone conclusion that Barack Obama is the winner. I also suspect that Barack will do much better in the Chicaco area than in Central or Southern Illinois. The wing nuts down there cannot bring themselves to vote for a black guy but would have little problem voting for someone as whacked out as David Duke, but not even the Republicans are crazy enough to run him.
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Sun Oct-10-04 01:28 PM
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11. I live downstate, in Belleville, and even racists I know will vote. . . |
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. . .for Obama. I think the guy may be our first African/American President! Yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
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Sun Oct-10-04 01:38 PM
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12. David Duke... I glanced and read Daisy Dukes |
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tried to envision Keyes wearing some daisy dukes in order to boost his numbers... *scary image, btw*
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Sun Oct-10-04 01:40 PM
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13. That would have solidified the Republican base, instead of pissing them |
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off, like the Keyes nomination did.
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