{"id":2280,"date":"2004-08-06T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2280.html"},"modified":"2004-08-06T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T16:38:58","slug":"keyes-to-lose-to-i-mean-run-against-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/keyes-to-lose-to-i-mean-run-against-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyes to lose to, I mean, run against Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Keyes, to no one’s surprise, is going to enter<\/a> the Illinois Senate race.<\/p>\n

Maryland conservative Alan Keyes, a former Republican presidential contender and talk-show host, has agreed to accept the nomination as the Illinois GOP nominee for Senate and plans a public rollout for his campaign on Sunday, several Republican sources said Thursday.<\/p>\n

“He (Keyes) indicated he wanted to come back on his own terms, bring some of his supporters with him and didn’t want to have to walk out the door (Wednesday night) bombarded with questions about everything,” said one member of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee. “He just wanted a few days to organize things.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve already said my peace<\/a> about the Keyes foolishness, but my friend J.K. alerted me to an amusing take from Rich Miller’s Illinois-based Capitol Fax<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sen. Syverson described the Keyes choice this way when speaking to the Rockford Register-Star recently: “(I)t’s the bottom of the ninth, we’re down by three runs, there’s two outs, and we need to bring in a pinch hitter who can it a home run.”<\/p>\n

I think a better analogy would be a last place team trading away its future for an old pitcher with a great TV personality who has never won a game and has almost no potential.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds about right to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Keyes, to no one’s surprise, is going to enter the Illinois Senate race. Maryland conservative Alan Keyes, a former Republican presidential contender and talk-show host, has agreed to accept the nomination as the Illinois GOP nominee for Senate and plans a public rollout for his campaign on Sunday, several Republican sources said Thursday. “He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}