I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning

[hiddenmuse]

Many thanks to docwebster for sharing this - I appreciate the political edumication I get from your blog!

The phrase "hypocritical sonofabitch" doesn't seem to quite cover it, but it'll do:

Far-right lunatic Alan Keyes is running for the Senate in Illinois against the hugely-popular Barack Obama, an Illinois state senator. One problem, Alan Keyes lives in Maryland. He's never lived there, didn't attend school there, has no ties to the state. But it's legal as long as he establishes residency.

But Mr. Keyes said the following with Sen. Hillary Clinton moved to New York to run in that state:

"I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it."

-- Alan Keyes, FOX News, 3/17/2000

Ah, the sweet smell of hypocrisy. Shall we make Mr. Keyes eat his own words? Take the above quote and mail it to this address:

donations@keyesforsenate.com

Feel free to spread this meme far and wide.

(Snagged from docwebster and multiple sources)

Comments

[donia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that. I lived in New York when Hilary ran for Senate and I wasn't too pleased with what she was doing, though I will give her a tip of the hat that she did an amazing job crash coursing the issues and finding out what the different attitudes around the state were on them.

Despite that, I didn't vote for her. I honestly beleive that you can't really understand what's going on in a particular place until you've lived there and studied it from the ground up. I am now deeply pissed that Alan Keyes is homing in on Illinois, my latest place of residence.

Thankfully, I'm not Republican, so he wouldn't have gotten my vote anyway, but it's nice to see evidence that he is just hypocritical as most of his GOP brethren. I'll be sending that quote to everyone I know, especially the Republicans.