Posted on 02/08/2008 9:18:40 PM PST by Steve Schulin
... KEYES: "... I am motivated by a desire to see this country restored to the godly principle of its founding, starting with the simple premise of liberty, that our rights come from God and must be exercised with respect for the authority of God. ... We had to make a judgment on where to concehtrate our efforts to make a breakthrough. ... I've been in Texas since mid-January. ... We knew that Super Tuesday would not decide the outcome. It is the important decision of the people from Texas. ... I started in San Antonio, have traveled to Austin for March for life, El Paso, Lubbock, Kerrville, and now Beaumont. I will go to the Dallas-Fort Worth area; we will try to reach every major area in the state before March 4. Conservative, pro-life, pro-Consitution -- their choice is on the ballot."
"... I have no plans beyond winning the Texas primary and moving on to the convention, where I believe that the conservatives will come together in order to nominate the kind of alternative that America needs."
"The people of Texas have it in their power to make this happen, and I belive that once they learn there is a better choice, they will do so."
...
This is ridiculous.
Alan Keyes has become a parody of himself.
On another thread, some knucklehead was pushing the idea of a Huckabee/Keyes ticket.
I’m thinking McCain/Allen.
Go Alan. He has my vote Tuesday.
Would Alan Keys PLEASE leave the building!
If I’d known Romney was dropping out I would have voted for Keyes instead. (Seeing his name on the ballot was a surpise to me)
Keyes is a lunatic.
This man is not a sane individual, let's not encourage the ravings of a lunatic. Time to move on, folks.
"Look, kids! Big Ben... Parliament!"
http://thehill.com/in-the-know/nepotism-does-not-officially-exist-in-rep.-waterss-office-2008-01-15.html
Second story down.
“Keyes must have his sci-fi fix
Few people know where Alan Keyes has been since his much-ballyhooed cameo appearance in The Des Moines Register Republican presidential debate in December.
But people who know Keyes know exactly where he was hours before the debate: watching science fiction.
The quixotic presidential long-shot has one of the strangest debate prep routines in all of politics, according to former campaign manager Bill Pascoe, who ran Keyes’s 2004 Illinois Senate campaign. Pascoe said that Keyes must watch a sci-fi movie, with lots of explosions, in a movie theater before he takes on political opponents face to face.
Not only that — Keyes is a huge “Star Trek” fan who once took time off from Labor Day campaign events to attend a charity paintball event with Captain Kirk, aka William Shatner.
Pascoe, a more casual “Star Trek” fan, said he remembers a transplanted Keyes buying a series of “Star Trek” episodes at Wal-Mart when he was moving in to his new Illinois apartment. Keyes was not sure when his show would be on in his adopted state, and he needed his fix.
And prior to a 2004 debate with then-state Sen. Barack Obama (D), Keyes staffers were forced to drive the candidate 25 miles out of their way so he could see “Alien vs. Predator,” which was showing only in second-run theaters at the time.
Unfortunately for Keyes, the “Alien vs. Predator” sequel came out on Christmas Day last month, nearly two weeks after the Des Moines debate. Maybe that’s why he came off so outlandish, at one point saying there was a lot of “hot air” on stage. “Heal thyself, doctor,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney scolded him at one point.
Keyes’s campaign did not return calls on the matter.”
Keyes has been in Texas I guess making his last stand or defending the Alamo since the 23rd of Jan. For what I have no idea other than he wanted to move south for six weeks during the hard winter time and have his expenses paid.
Reality is that by the time TX votes for delegates on Mar. 4 there will only be 732 left to win and a candidate needs 1191 to be nominated. Keyes currently has zero and I bet his prospects are about zero to win any before or after Mar. 4. So I’d say he’s about as likely to be on the podium at the convention in 2008 as he was in 2000, missing.
Keys is a good man but he is not a good politician. Thats not a bad thing unless you are running for office. I voted for him in 2000 but I won’t this time around unless Huckabee drops out before May.
The image of a pre-debate Alan Keyes going to see Alien vs. Predator at the dollar theater with his reluctant aides in tow is hilarious!
I really like Keyes. A lot. I think he’s brilliant. I voted for him for Senate in Illinois in 2004.
I am beginning, though, to wonder if he might have some sort of mental problem.
Hank
Atleast the man is trying.
Maybe that’s why he came off so outlandish, at one point saying there was a lot of “hot air” on stage.
“Heal thyself, doctor,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney scolded him at one point.
LOL
Damn that Romney...... He needed to display more of that humor..... LOL
Alan, you may get more votes than you have before but you have 0 delegates now. Even if you won all the state of Texas delegates you would be 500+ behind. There are enough delegates to win before Texas for McCain to wrap it up by then.
“The people of Texas have it in their power to make this happen, and I belive that once they learn there is a better choice, they will do so.”
Sorry Alan, “The only man who can save America” moniker is taken. Some guy with 9 delegates has it already.
Not only that — Keyes is a huge “Star Trek” fan .”
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So, your point???
Keyes doesn’t have to win the nomination before the convention. He thinks there’s a good chance that no one will have enough delegates to win on first ballot, and that the more folks-of-good-will hear his message, the less likely they are to support the other candidates in this race in subsequent balloting.
The rest of my comments are replies to issues raised by some other folks in this thread:
I agree that Keyes’ response to the global warming question in Iowa debate wasn’t a high point for him, especially because he usually hits home runs. The next night or so, one of the public callers to his weekly telephone conference call asked him about that exchange, and his answer in that venue was a nice combination of scientific and political aspects of the climate policy arena. I’d be happy to see Keyes in a debate on the scientific basis for such carbon control policies as repeatedly advocated by McCain-Lieberman and the global governance crowd that preceded them in urging ratification of Kyoto Protocol or the like. Regarding the science, Keyes showed understanding of the so-called “hockey stick scandal”, which involved the UNIPCC embracing an unreplicable mess of a study in a way clearly chosen for it’s promotional value. Keyes really shines when he’s talking about sovereignty, and I thought his comments in the debate were lamenting the rush of our leaders — Democrats and Republicans alike — to join in the parade of CO2 alarmism and hand over the keys to our economy to the greenhouse gas controllers. But he said he was mainly expressing dismay that the time-limited debate was focusing on this global warming issue at all. Did anyone besides me notice that Fred Thompson started off that round of answers by saying he would not answer with a raised hand, and then he admonished Keyes for taking essentially the same stance?
The sci-fi stuff seems pretty innocuous to me. Driving the candidate 25 minutes to see a movie? I notice there’s no mention of him keeping some audience waiting or whatnot. And anybody who contemplates doing battle with Clinton gang (or it’s tactical brethren from the Chicago School of Saul Alinsky, which is where Obama learned about the science of community agitation), could probably benefit from seeing imaginative battle involving that acid-dripping Alien and the practiced Predator.
I’ve listened in on several of the Keyes campaign Tuesday and Thursday night public conference calls. These typically last more than an hour. He doesn’t sound like a lunatic to me. He’s been gracious and thoughtful, and he has thoroughly and directly answered every question that folks have posed.
Keyes is the perfect candidate. He already has experience losing to Obama.
I love Alan. He was my first choice in 99. He’s just too intelligent for the electorate which makes him unelectable.
I’ll vote for Alan Keyes.
He is the only conservative left in the race, and unfortunately, voters in Texas were not allowed to have any say at all in the nomination process this election.
The only time Texas has a say in the electorate is when we produce the candidate.
‘12, David Dewhurst will be the man.
Ten bucks says he's dead wrong.
Keyes doesn’t have to win the nomination before the convention. He thinks there’s a good chance that no one will have enough delegates to win on first ballot, and that the more folks-of-good-will hear his message, the less likely they are to support the other candidates in this race in subsequent balloting.v
Math says Keyes is dead wrong. With only two major candidates left in the race excluding Keyes/Paul then one of the two McCain/Huckabee will get the required number. Or maybe yet a better question Keyes needs to answer is how is he or Paul going to get or split enough delegates in order to shut down McCain from getting the 499 that he needs?
Please! Spare me the sick humor!
David Dewhurst my A**!
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