When I say Keyes does not trust the voters, I mean it! MUST READ!

[wndycty]

Keyes wants legislators, not you, to pick senators
By John Patterson Daily Herald State Government Editor
Posted Friday, August 13, 2004
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SPRINGFIELD - If Illinois voters elect Alan Keyes to the U.S. Senate, he'd prefer they not get another chance.

Keyes, a Maryland Republican who just moved to Calumet City for the campaign, supports returning to a system abolished nearly a century ago of letting state legislators pick U.S. senators rather than voters.

In fact, he's dubbed the constitutional amendment that switched to public election of senators one of the country's greatest mistakes, vowing in past campaigns to re-examine it if voters ever sent him to Washington, D.C.

"He does still support repeal of the 17th Amendment," Keyes campaign adviser Dan Proft said Thursday, but added it is "not near the top of his agenda."
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http://www.dailyherald.com/mchenry/main_story.asp?intID=38212131

[Catholic Sensation]

1. he doesn't want to win

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

2. This would benefit us more than GOPers if it ever happened.

MOST of the South has state legislatures filled with Democrats and US Senators that are Republicans. If those Democratic state legislatures were picking US Senators, they wouldn't be picking the bozos we have now.

Just another POV.

[ISUGRADIA]

3. Don't know if this is so when you balance out other states

ND and SD have four Dem Senators, for example, which would be all Repubs if the legislatures would be picking them. I'd have to look at all states to see how this would favor or not favor one party or another.

[Bandit]

4. I wonder if he wants to go back to where a black man was considered

only three fifths of a man and women were a man's property.

[Plaid Adder]

5. Wow. He IS nuts! n/t

[kwolf68]

7. Nuttier than squirrel shit

[chiburb]

8. A Chicago Sun-Times columnist dissed Keyes, and they

printed my short email 2 days later:

"Probably the most concise, accurate, and well-written three paragraphs you've ever written. Not just because I agree with you, but because you captured the nutcase in a nutshell."

Thought you'd like that!

[AgadorSparticus]

6. obama couldn't ask for a better opponent.

keyes is an absolute lunatic. it would be almost entertaining in a comedic kind of way to listen to him if he wasn't serious about it.