If at first you don't get Mike Ditka ...
Failing to find a prospective nominee from among the 12.6 million people of their own state, the Republicans of Illinois have chosen to import the firey and, errr, eccentric Alan Keyes in from Maryland to be their nominee for the U.S. Senate. It would appear that having lost two Senate races there by colossal margins did not count against him. Neither did his reactionary political views, nor his comments about the propriety of residents of one state running for office in another.
I was afraid that the Democrats were tempting fate by treating Barack Obama's election to the US Senate as a foregone conclusion. But if Keyes is his opponent it is indeed time to start considering office space and measuring for drapes.
UPDATE: Well, what do you know. It looks like Illinois isn't the second state Keyes has tried to get to elect him to the US Senate - it's the third. Apparently in May of 1998 he asked for the Libertarian nomination to take on Republican Senator Al D'Amato of New York. The Libertarians turned him down.
Posted by armand at August 6, 2004 10:17 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics