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Mark A. Kilmer's Political Annotation has a good entry about irresponsible extremist Michael Moore's emerging place as a source of anti-Bush propaganda even among Democrats who admit that he has all the credibility of Baron Munchausen.
Mark also reports that former UN Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes, who has been offered the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from Illinois (succeeding former Seven of Nine husband Jack Ryan ) told State Central Committee members at a pre-selection interview that if offered the nomination he would accept. Sources close to Keyes report that his "taking time to think about it" is mostly a gesture he thinks for some reason he owes the Illinois GOP. A pontential problem: Keyes has declined Senate nominations in other states due to sensitivity about being a carpetbagger, a posture which may come back to haunt him if he accepts in Illinois. As if one more problem was going to finally matter either way; I have as much chance of being elected to the Senate from Illinois this year as anybody the Republicans pick at this point.
If nothing else, the Keyes candidacy against Democratic Convention star Barak Obama - hopeless though it is- would end the streak of Republican candidates for major statewide office in Illinois named Ryan which strangely has occurred ever since former Gov. George Ryan was forced to leave office after one term due to a scandal surrounding improprieties in the Illinois Secretary of State's office when he held that job prior to his election as governor. The (defeated) Republican candidate to succeed him was State Attorney General Jim Ryan. The events surrounding the departure of Jack Ryan from this year's Senate race are all too well documented.
It's almost as if the national Republican Party had decided in the wake of Watergate not to run any candidate for a while whose last name wasn't Nixon.
Mark also reports that former UN Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes, who has been offered the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from Illinois (succeeding former Seven of Nine husband Jack Ryan ) told State Central Committee members at a pre-selection interview that if offered the nomination he would accept. Sources close to Keyes report that his "taking time to think about it" is mostly a gesture he thinks for some reason he owes the Illinois GOP. A pontential problem: Keyes has declined Senate nominations in other states due to sensitivity about being a carpetbagger, a posture which may come back to haunt him if he accepts in Illinois. As if one more problem was going to finally matter either way; I have as much chance of being elected to the Senate from Illinois this year as anybody the Republicans pick at this point.
If nothing else, the Keyes candidacy against Democratic Convention star Barak Obama - hopeless though it is- would end the streak of Republican candidates for major statewide office in Illinois named Ryan which strangely has occurred ever since former Gov. George Ryan was forced to leave office after one term due to a scandal surrounding improprieties in the Illinois Secretary of State's office when he held that job prior to his election as governor. The (defeated) Republican candidate to succeed him was State Attorney General Jim Ryan. The events surrounding the departure of Jack Ryan from this year's Senate race are all too well documented.
It's almost as if the national Republican Party had decided in the wake of Watergate not to run any candidate for a while whose last name wasn't Nixon.
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