Please, pleaaaase make it so. The Illinois Republican party ran this man against Obama for the Senate, so they obviously endorse him as being a proper face of the Republican party. I think he’s a touch jealous. I think he’s a touch insane too. Just a tad. Ok, way more than a tad. About a thousand tads. I know he’s always been this way, always hated Obama, but before, Obama didn’t have the Secret Service watching out for him. Luckily, he does now.
And so I assume with that “he must be stopped” that the Secret Service just got a new name for their long, long, looooong list. Give those guys a hand, they’ve gotta be working double-time overtime to keep up with the crazies. God bless the Secret Service*.
This was put here in the Pit because it sure can’t go anywhere else.
And “endorsed” is the word to understand within the scheme of things in Illinois in 2004. Ryan, by trying to whore out 7 of 9 at a sex club, was out as a candidate. Obama was already riding the express train to Fame and Glory. The GOP was out of money. Nobody but Oberweis and Keyes (and maybe some loser who was even more forgettable–shit oh dear, DITKA realized he was fucked!) were willing to fund their own campaign. Oberweis was already damaged goods, having lost in the primary and proven himself to be a moron. Keyes was left, and the IL-GOP’s endorsement was more like, “Yeah, go ahead, throw your money away to keep the party on the ticket, but remember that we’ve thrown in the towel on this one and don’t bitch if you have your ass handed to you in November.”
I was around for all of that, and it was very entertaining, every day was a WTF? moment, just like the recent crap with Blago and Burris. Illinois/Chicago politics is so wacky.
It’s nice for others to hear this background, and your synopsis was much better than mine would have been.
The scary part of “Palin/Keyes 2012!” is that the results will almost certainly be that they will win something–certainly lots of electoral districts, and maybe a state or three. Doesn’t it scare you to realize this is a country where millions of your fellow citizens will cheerfully pull the lever that reads “Totally Batshit” rather than the one that reads “Sincere, Pretty Good President, Even If you Disagree with a Lot of What He Says”?
Keyes on the birth certificate thing is such a trip! He is so totally committed! (Or he should be.)
Considering the untold numbers of more-than-implied death threats by people at McCain rallies if Obama were to win, the hundreds of vicious death threats against Obama, his wife, and even his kids by some Freepers and their ilk immediately after the election (I saw some of them with my own eyes before they were removed), the bullet-ridden chimp cartoon, and now Keyes’ deeply deranged rant proclaiming that Obama is not a natural-born citizen and effectively calling for members of the armed forces to refuse orders that descend from the Commander In Chief on those spurious “grounds”, I cannot help but predict that this will get completely out of control and that blood will be spilled, and very likely sooner rather than later.
The appalling but not-in-the-least unexpected abject cowardice of conservative Republican leaders who continue to fail to come forth and demand an end to this rising tide of right-wing blood lust is both starkly terrifying and very, very telling.
Here’s one guess as to how it might be played out: Some right-wing maniac will attempt to assassinate (unsuccessfully, God and the Secret Service willing!) the President and, instead of conservative Republicans facing up to their own lack of moral and patriotic responsibility and trying to bring the country together in the aftermath, the right – led by their messiah Rush Limbaugh – will instead claim that it was a secret conspiracy by the left or the President himself to “stifle dissent” and “expand his powers”.
Sound like bad fiction? Absolutely. But who’d have credited one tenth of what we’ve already seen lately, from Blagojevich’s poetry slams to meth-snorting orgies at the Department of the Interior?
I attribute your bad feeling to the fact that the guy sitting on the bus next to you (no, not him, the guy on your right, with the ludicrous haircut, yes, him) is completely insane and somehow he still gets to vote, and his vote is counted exactly as much as yours. Even three and 3/4s years before the election, just his having a vote is enough to make you feel bad, if you just stop to consider that for a minute.
Just something I saw posted somewhere quite some time ago and stuck in my head; I’ve also seen occasional references to it since then. Here’s a blog that may be the source. It does have the rest of the conversation.
I didn’t think you kne:pw him well enough to call him by a nickname like that. Unless invited, I always choose to call people by their full names–as in this case, “Patricia.”
Palin, for one, is working hard to keep her mug in the news up here and even harder on burnishing her conservative image by making populist pronouncements about things like the stim package. They’ll go far together.
My question in all this is why does a raver like Keyes continue to get even a second of air time? What’s that about?
Is there a left wing equivalent? Someone who keeps getting face time on the news who claims all sorts of nutsy crap the way Keyes did (not to mention the cottage industry of Clintons-are-muderers folks that used to parade around)
For all those who moan about the “left-leaning” press, why is that there is no right wing nut case that is deemed too crazy to get on TV, while on the other side not liking torture is too much to bear.
Yep, that’s John Rogers. Author of the Blue Beetle comic book, the Transformers movie, the maligned writer of The Core’s screenplay, and also the TV version of Global Frequency. Great guy, heck of a DM.
