Wow, today's Chicago Trib editorial (a conservative editorial board, no less) totally rips Alan Keyes and the Republican paty in Illinois for picking a "rent-a-Senator" to run against Barack Obama. The editorial informs Keyes that the big body of water he might have seen flying in to O'Hare is called "Lake Michigan." Hysterical!
"Republicans were successful in state politics for the last quarter century because they put up pragmatic, moderate conservatives such as Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar and Judy Baar Topinka. State GOP leaders could have chosen a pragmatic conservative--as Topinka, the party chairwoman, would have preferred--but instead they went for someone who is from the right wing of the right wing of the Republican Party."(Thanks to Buzzflash for finding this.)
