"Illinois GOP Skips Keyes in Promotion"

[GreenPartyVoter]

CHICAGO (AP) - The Illinois Republican Party left U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes off a campaign mailer that touted "Your 2004 Republican Team," but both sides insist the omission was not a snub.

The promotion, which doubled as an absentee ballot application, went to hundreds of thousands of homes and mentioned President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and candidates in congressional and legislative races.

GOP leaders said Keyes was not included in the mailer because he planned to send out comparable materials.

"People are reading too much into this," Illinois GOP spokesman Jason Gerwig told the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday. "We did our mailing and congressional candidates helped coordinate it. The Keyes campaign is doing its own thing."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20041021/D85RRRD02.html

[lil-petunia]

1. reading too much into this-> "Hey Alan, take a hike!" Yours, Ill-GOP.

This has to be the best story in all of Illinois politics this year, and it has been a wild year already.

[mark0rama]

2. "The Keyes campaign is doing its own thing."

Its own pathological, certifiably batshit insane thing.

[amber dog democrat]

3. Must have been an honest oversight.

An its not just an oversight but more that Keyes is an idiot and a liability ?

[madrchsod]

4. i think judy b said it best----

para phrase-he doesn`t represent the majority of illinois republicans...which is true. JACK ryran really represents the republicans here and actually would have given obama campaign a run for their money..dumb ass republicans

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

5. Keyes comments on Mary Cheney didn't go over well

Alan's focus points included the following:

"Mary Cheney is a Satan lover who will burn in hell for her sexual proclivities. All homosexuals must be quarantined to save the next generation."

Lynn Cheney saw this and, after a few days of trail ballooning to check out its possible effect on the electorate, said Keyes should do his own GOTV.