Let me put it this way about Keys in the Maryland election, he started off at the bottom of the barrel and began digging deeper. He alienated almost every group he would have needed to win. The seat could have been his for the taking if he had been even a bit sensible.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "No, Keyes is bat-shit crazy." > > I don't know if he is bat-shit crazy, but he is extremely conservative. He > makes most GOP members look like full-blown socialists. > > " he couldn't win against a democrat in Maryland who was incompetent to say > the least" > > That means nothing. I have seen plenty of elections where an incompetent > candidate wins over someone more qualified. Straight ticket voting leads to > a lot of wins that would be hard to explain. That's why I adamantly oppose > straight ticket ballots. I would love for all elections to be > non-partisan. As an aside, a town in NC just tried to do this for local > elections. The town council and mayoral races were going to be > nonpartisan. The DOJ stepped in and said: Nope; Not going to happen. > > "Then the republicans made him a parachute candidate against Obama . . ' > > Yeah. He didn't have a snowball's chance in hell to win that election. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
