Posted on 06/03/2006 2:33:40 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
Bill Sali went on to win, thankfully, as did consevervatives all over the great State of Idaho.
The RINOs, and yes, there are plenty of them even in Idaho, slunk from the field in defeat.
As always, this Keyes speech is full of gems. No one puts his finger on what is facing our free republic like Alan Keyes.
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In North Idaho, where this speech was delivered to a large crowd, Bill Sali won by more than double the margin that he won by in the rest of the district. He inspired conservatives to action at a key moment.
God bless him. We need men like Bill Sali in the House.
Thanks for posting this. He may have his faults, but understanding and explaining the Constitution is not one of them. I still love Alan Keyes.
By the way, I don't intend here to be a turd on the carpet on your thread. Come to think of it, I really should not be party for fueling the now larger dampened embers of the Keyes wars around here. If you wish, I will request the mods to delete my post.
Reverence for God and respect for the sacred nature of innocent human life are the foundation stones upon which our liberty and our republic rest.
Read a little history. For example, in the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of souls died or suffered horribly under regimes who abandoned God and his principles and soon after grossly devalued human life. (If you don't reverence the Creator, why would you place any value, ultimately, on those who are made in His Image?)
Soon after, liberty in all its glorious expressions died a predictable death.
Yeah, me too. We ain't got nobody else like him.
Bookmarked. I liked (mosh pit)Keyes a lot when the primary began in 2000. If he renounces that comment stating that he supports reparations... I'll consider liking him again. He's still a solid conservative.
Nah. His words can stand the test of criticism.
Hormones. Those who are not sociopaths, have a conscience. It is in the genes, and always has been. Granted good habits need to be taught, and exercised, to be annealed into hard wired values. That can be done from a host of directions. My dad was an atheist, but a profoundly good and loving man, and it had an impact on his three sons. It really did. Trust me.
Yes, but if he didn't act like a Catholic theocrat nut (e.g. calling his opponent "a sinner") he might win elections. I like him and wanted him to smash Obama, but that would have been impossible, given his actions.
The reparations thing only happened because he allowed himself to get caught up in what was truly an academic discussion about a controversial subject. He said that if you're going to do reparations, just exempt them from the income tax.
In the context of my agreement with him 99.9% of the time, and the fact that he actually wants to jettison the income tax for ALL of us, it really doesn't bother me much at all.
Have you ever had any experience with the viciously hostile Illinois media? If you had, perhaps you'd understand it when I say that his comments were misreported and spun out of all recognition.
The idea that he is a theocrat is ridiculous. He is a proponent of traditional American republican self-government.
I've seen alot blamed on hormones.
But we're not animals. We have a God-given duty to rise above our hormones and the "law of the jungle".
Saying Mary Cheney is a "selfish hedonist" can't get spun out of all recognition. And I had forgotten about the reparations incident. No, he didn't say "if you're going to do reparations." He advocated reparations in the form of tax exemption.
Of course it can. And it did.
The "reporter" was a radical homosexual activist, and the name "Mary Cheney" never passed Alan Keyes lips. He simply gave a direct and honest answer to the question of whether her lifestyle fit the description, to which he replied, "of course."
Maybe you're enamored of politicians who constantly give mealy-mouthed answers, but I'm not.
That's one of the reasons I like Alan Keyes so much.
Yeah? Who was the Electrician?
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