Outsourcing Candidates

The Chicago Sun-Times reports the truth. After asking every last politician in the state Republican Party, the Illinois GOP outsourced its Senate campaign to a 4-time loser Alan Keyes, who still lives in Maryland!.

Now, I don't mind the idea of bring a "celebrity" candidate like Keyes into a race, and the analogy with Hillary Clinton in 2000 has some merit, but puhlease! Dozens of Republicans rejected their party's nomination, and it is only 90 days before the election. At least Hillary shoved some local pols aside to make her run, and she did it 2 years before the election, not 3 months. Keyes is a desperate action to get some attention on this race and give the GOP someone to run against Obama.

And if Keyes' past losing campaigns are any indication, Obama might still get 70% of the vote!