It's official, and it's Keyes

Well, it's official. Maryland resident Alan Keyes, who received much publicity for his criticism of Hillary Clinton- an Illinois native who had lived in Arkansas and Washington, D.C., but who decided to run for the U.S. Senate from New York- is now the Republican candidate for the Senate from Illinois, from whence Sen. Clinton came.

Got that?

He promises "a fight," and a spirited discussion of the issues. Ambassador Keyes is, in fact, an extraordinarily gifted orator and a marvelously talented debater. Unfortunately, nobody will get past the word "carpetbag" in this one.

The Republican party of my birth state would have done better to lose with any of several home-grown candidates eager for the chance than with Keyes, as charismatic and articulate as he admittedly is.

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