Alan Keyes - GOP Sacrifical Lamb?

(Barbarian observes that Bush differs from Keyes in that Keyes is antiabortion, and Bush approves of it in some circumstances)

That's the kind of Roman Catholic I am. I agree with Keyes on abortion. One of the reasons I differ with Bush is his pro-abortion with exceptions stance.

 

OK. Gotta go with the winner.

 

Who did I vote for?

 

You asking me? I was just responding to your statement that you didn't vote for Keyes because he "didn't stand a chance". To me, that is a good tactic for a football pool, but not an election. But that's just me.

 

PA Jim, I think Sue was saying that she didn't vote for him because he was a carpetbagger of sorts. He came to Illinois for the sole purpose of running for Senate after he condemned Hillary for doing the same. I would not have voted for him either, chance or no chance of winning.

Sue, I'd bet you either didn't vote for Senator or voted for a 3rd party. Am I right? That's what I would've done and you know, they say great minds think alike.

 

I campaigned very hard for Jim Clymer. He was strongly pro-life. The other two on the ballot, the D and R candidates, were strongly pro-abortion.

Clymer got 4-5% of the vote; most evangelical Christians voted for the pro-abortion Republican. Surprise, surprise.

 

Mr. Keyes is a good GOD fearing man. He would have been a better president than Bush. Mr. Keyes needs to really perfect his message and run in 2008

 

But as you can see, most here probably wouldn't vote for him unless the major media told them that he was the front-runner.

 

Bro. James

PAJim:

I have voted for the underdog more times than I care to admit, but if a person does not have a chance of winning - I will not waste my vote on him.

§ue

 

I am disturbed that Bush didn't campaign for him, regardless of the intriguing strategy represented by his campaign noted by dianetavegia above, and that he would rather campaign for Specter, which I'm sure was also a strategic move (keep a liberal Republican Senator, keep those GOP votes, rather than risk voters splitting the ticket, which would also explain why Bush didn't campaign for Specter's solid conservative opponent in the primary).

go2church and PA Jim's point is well taken. I don't care for hypocrisy by those on the Right any more than the Left, even less actually.

Though I think that Keyes would not be a good President (he is a wonderful rhetorician, but I'm very skeptical on what kind of leader he would be), I think he would be a very good Senator. Also, though I worry some that he would be more divisive than galvanizing, it would be nice to have a strong voice defending truths from the floor of the Senate.

 

FTR,

Agreed on all points. Especially that Keyes is better suited as a Senator than a President.

 

How many steps is it from Senator to President?

 

There's really no direct connection between a Senator and the White House seat. You'd have to run just like anyone else, although the publicity doesn't hurt.

 

As long as we vote for bad candidates, on the premise that we want to vote for a winner, we will get bad elected officials.

This doesn't seem like a difficult concept.

 

No, it doesn't seem difficult...

 

Not a very common step, I don't think.

15 men who served in the Senate have become president. But as far as I know only Harding and JFK went straight from the Senate to the White House.