Keyes to Run for Governor of Illinois?

Sneed thinks so:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sneed/cst-nws-sneed28a.html

Go ahead, Keyes, eat up some more GOP $$ in a silly adventure

and he's the nominee

-- wait instead for something more appropriate.

Like the next host of Family Feud.

for whatever that's worth. They sounded fairly sure of it.

Illinois Republicans?

I mean, if they run this nutjob...

:puke:

He obviously likes to get spanked. Thank you Mr. Obama, may I have another?

Got brain bleach? Worst mental image ever.

That't it my ILGOP friends, do your best to smeer LaHood and resurrect Alan Keyes!

They say believe half of what you see...believe considerably less of what you read in Sneed.

The IL Constitution requires one to be a resident for three years prior to holding the office of governor.

The person who wins will be sworn in two years from not -- Krazy Allen won't have been here that long.

I say we amend the Illinois constitution so that Alan can run. This will ensure that a Democrat remains in the Governor's Office.

He can't believe he would win the primary, but even his presence in the primary could hurt the other Republican candidates.

I fear that would be Blagoyevich's only chance at winning a second term. I think if LaHood runs it will be another republican governor.

I wonder if we can convince George Ryan that all has been forgiven and he should run again... lol

I saw in the roll call thread that you are from Beardstown. I went to high school in Springfield. I've been to Beardstown a couple of times. We need all the downstate DUers we can get. Glad to have you. To get use to the forum, you should scroll back a couple of pages. I'm sure you will find some really great posts.

I work in Springfield these days.

SHG's baseball coach is a guy I went to school with.

I hear he wants to run for pres.

I don't think he's going to get much support for president, he eroded a lot of his base right here. He really upset the unions in Illinois, and without their support I don't see him having much of a chance at a local OR national campaign.

The guy is such a joke. It would be funny to see how few votes he could get.

Sun-Times gossip maven Michael Sneed leads her column today thus:
Heeee's baaack! – Rumble is former Republican U.S. Senate candidate/nightmare Alan Keyes is eyeing a bid for governor…. He's conducting the first meeting of his "Cook County United" gathering of 40 to 50 of Cook County's best conservative activists in his Loop office tonight!
Several readers have noticed echoes in this presentation of yesterday's Illinois Leader article, " He's Baaack: Keyes to hold initial Cook County United meeting tomorrow," that included the phrase that "many are privately concerned that Keyes may form an exploratory committee to run for Governor."

But as Capitol Fax publisher Rich Miller points out, what Sneed, the Leader and concerned, rumbling Republicans fail to realize is that Article V, Section 3 of the Illinois Constitution requires that to hold statewide office, a person must have been "a resident of this State for the three years preceding his election."

One of Miller's readers observes that this requirement not only eliminates Keyes from becoming governor (he didn't move to Illinois until August, 2004, and the election will be in November, 2006) but it also eliminates former Chicago schools chief Paul Vallas, who now lives in Philadelphia.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/chi-zornlog.story