{"id":1078,"date":"2004-09-14T06:23:12","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/14\/keyes-ipromisesi-inflammatory-comments\/"},"modified":"2004-09-14T06:23:12","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T14:23:12","slug":"keyes-ipromisesi-inflammatory-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Keyes promises inflammatory comments!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been disappointed. I visit the Chicago Tribune<\/a> every morning, search on “Alan Keyes” just to find new outrageous remarks. Sadly, for the past several days, I haven’t read any new ones. I was afraid he is growing tired.<\/p>\n

Now, I read this drought of outrageous comments shall surely end! Rick Pierson at The Chicago Tribune.<\/a> reports that during a closed door meeting with top GOP fundraisers and donors, Keyes revealed:<\/p>\n

He plans to make “inflammatory” comments “every day, every week” until the election, according to several sources at the session.<\/div>\n

(Pierson reports his sources request anonymity; Keyes campaign manager says the speech was private and should remain so.)<\/p>\n

Evidently, Keyes considers himself engaged in some sort of war (and I don’t think he means the one with Iraq). He advises:<\/p>\n

“The way you win wars is that you start fires that will consume the enemy.” <\/div>\n

I think that was General Sherman’s<\/a> philosophy. Despite the similarity to Sherman, Keyes seems to see himself as similar to Ulysses S. Grant:<\/p>\n

In his remarks to the finance group, Keyes used a Civil War-themed allegory to describe his tactics, according to the sources. They said he spoke of the vastly different styles of two leading Union generals, the aggressive Ulysses S. Grant and the passive George McClellan, adding that it was easy to tell if a child would grow up to be a successful military leader.<\/div>\n

How?<\/p>\n

I guess by seeing whether or not the child a exhibits a reverence for life and a hatred of terror. To wit:<\/p>\n

The child who is willing to line up his toy soldiers and not merely admire them but swat them down and “put them into the meat grinder” will be a great general, the sources said Keyes told the group.<\/div>\n

Yow!<\/p>\n

Obama, the other candidate, is still thought to be ahead in the race for US Senate. Will the “meat grinder” image turn the tide for Keyes? We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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