Oh, I hope so! That would be the most interesting, far-reaching, telegenic and impassioned Senate race this country has seen in a long time. I hope they do it, and do it soon!

Posted by: apertyx at August 3, 2004 10:19 AM

Good by me, Mike.

Posted by: Alan @ TCP at August 3, 2004 11:09 AM

“Interesting”? Sure, in a circus side-show kind of way.

Let’s run down the Republican list of candidates shall we?
1. Pushy sex fiend forced to drop out
2. Ex-foot-baller/erectile-dysfunction salesman
3. Professional speaker, former presidential hopeful—Who tackily drew a salary from his campaign donations, and whose campaign wrote bad checks.

Um, who’s next? Sonny Bono’s corpse?

ok, ep

Posted by: elvispresley2k at August 3, 2004 01:21 PM

elvis,

No way the Rs can get Sonny Bono’s corpse for the Illinois Senate election.

The Dems have already hired it for the Presidential race.

Posted by: M. Simon at August 3, 2004 06:57 PM

I’m kind of split between Keyes and Obama.

Obama is a socialis drug war supporter.

Keyes is an American Taliban against prohibition.

Posted by: M. Simon at August 3, 2004 07:17 PM

The R’s are now clearly desperate to field Some/Any candidate in a clearly losing cause.

Which explains why there are so few of them.

Posted by: Don at August 4, 2004 12:04 AM

From a state that gave us DeadVoters by the hundreds for which party???

Geeesh, Don. Oh yah, I forgot. This is Tiddlywinks.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at August 4, 2004 07:33 AM

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Being from another country I don’t know who Tom Daschel is or what party he’s from, so when I see an ad with him beside John K. I figure he must be a Liberal.

OK. He might be an independent who is teaming up with John K. I don’t know, so I go to his web page (found in the Command Post’s right column) and low and behold no where is it plainly pointed out that he is a Democrat, one must read the fine print to find out what party this guy is from!

My BULLSHIT DETECTOR starts flashing, Senator are we embarrassed to be a Democrat or what?

-PS if you type Daschel into your spell checker it suggests “Diastole” m. to expand…more at stall.

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Posted by: augurwell at August 4, 2004 09:05 AM

“Obama is a socialis drug war supporter.”

This is the second time I’ve seen this guy called a Socialist. I’m not going to make any judgements based on what I read here w/o a little more factual evidence to back it up. Could you possibly point me to something that confirms your perspective? I’m curious, because I cannot imagine that the Democratic Party would embrace such a system. :o)

“Keyes is an American Taliban against prohibition.”

That’s a rather odd juxtaposition of Belief systems as well. Same goes for this one. I’m just curious, cuz I don’t know a whole lot about either of these people.

The italicized portion Posted by: M. Simon at August 3, 2004 07:17 PM

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at August 4, 2004 06:14 PM