Most people move to an area and then consider running for public office there. Alan Keyes is doing it backwards — running in Illinois, then moving there.
Look out, Illinois Republicans.
Alan Keyes is making good on his pledge to stay here, securing a downtown condominium and working to move two of his conservative organizations to Chicago.
It’s all part of an effort to push the state’s moderate Republican Party farther to the right.
Yeah, that’s a great idea. The state GOP was so enamored with Keyes during the election season that it left him out of its campaign literature. Now he’ll be there full time to insist to Republican officials that the way to win votes in the region’s most solidly Democratic state is to become rabidly right wing. Good luck with that, Al.
Moreover, this little tidbit jumped out at me.
Keyes will maintain his home in Maryland, where one of his sons is still in high school.
This strikes me as an example of the kind of anti-family principles that Keyes usually rants against. If a son is in high school in Maryland, shouldn’t his father avoid moving to Illinois at the same time? Isn’t this the kind of family arrangement that Keyes believes is destroying western civilization?