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GOP's African Americans keep distance from Keyes
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Sep 03, 2004 12:09pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Friday, September 3, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who has been a rising star in the party, never touched on the Keyes campaign despite evoking Keyes' opponent Barack Obama's name in his speech on Tuesday.
Steele quipped that Obama gave a "moving defense of the conservative principles of the Republican Party" in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in July.
"I won't comment on Ambassador Keyes' decision to run the race that he is running in Illinois," Steele said in an interview. "He has made a very strategic decision. Maybe he sees something in polling trends that I don't see. I don't know. I can't comment on that."
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And J.C. Watts was clearly uncomfortable with Keyes' remarks about Mary Cheney.
"If my daughter or one of my kids came to me and said that they were gay, my love for them would not lessen or decrease one iota," he said. "Vice President Cheney is in a very difficult position. I'm going to allow Dick Cheney to be a dad on this. He was a father long before he was a vice president."
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Interestingly, at the rally, Watts had a roll call of the African-American candidates who were running for office. They stood up proudly and waved to the crowd, including people who hadn't been in office for a decade.
"I hope you will get to know these candidates," Watts told the standing-room-only crowd, urging delegates to go support those races.
You would think that at a time like this, Keyes' friends would remember to drop his name.
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