Posted on 04/16/2008 7:56:26 AM PDT by bocopar
So Alan Keyes has announced he’s leaving the Republican Party. Over the last few months, I’ve received numerous emails and comments from those hoping that Keyes would enter the presidential race in some capacity: either as a candidate for the top spot, or that one of those running would select him for veep.
Many of those people believe he has the conservative credentials to codify a fractured Republican voting block.
I beg to differ.
This morning, I received the following press release from a publicist…
ALAN KEYES LEAVES REPUBLICAN PARTY Will the Republican Party Go the Way of the Whigs?
Is history about to repeat itself?
(Excerpt) Read more at intelradionetwork.com ...
IF Keyes could get over himself, he could probably do the conservative movement some good. But he’s too bombastic and too narcissistic to be effective.
How many times must this clown leave? If he re-joins, and leaves again, do we have to notice that also?
He’s a media addict. Needs to have the cameras focused on him every so often.
Why do so many JUMP THE SHARK as they get older and realize that their days of fame and relevance are waning?
The list of those who grow old with grace is just so short... Bob Hope, Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan, even Bush 41...
I think I would genuinely like Alan. I'm happy to have been in the audience of one of his speeches and he held the crowd in rapt attention.
But sadly I agree with everything you've said
He’s lucky to get a minicam these days.
I’d say he was the Harold Stassen of today, but that would insult Stassen who had a lengthy and significant career that is overlooked these days due to his laughable quadrennial runs for President.
It would be hilarious if he actually failed to get the CP nomination. Then, he could leave THAT party also and talk about how they betrayed their principles. He could finally be a party of one.
This is the same Alan Keyes who did such a lousy job of campaigning in Illinois that we now have someone named “Hussein” in the U.S. Senate?
Who cares WTF he does.
Alan Keyes is as nutty as Jeremiah Wright. Both men like to blame white Republicans for their shortcomings.
You know, I like the guy. Good speaker, does his research, great debates etc. But like you say, his sudden rebuffs of the Party and incessant need to be the center of all focus tends to be his fatal flaw. After a time, you can’t help but say “Fine. Go away.”
The pantheon of guys who don't know when to quit and just quietly fade away.
I was expecting him to say the republican party left him...
An article from a place that advertises “Wright is Right” gear does not inspire confidence in the material. Keyes will simply give those of us who intended to write in a candidate someone for whom to vote.
While I don’t necessarily think Keys would be a good candidate, I do agree that the GOP is headed the way of the Whigs unless something drastic happens.
Keyes ius the only complete, comprehensive conervative running. He’s brilliant and articulate. He would be a terrific President.
America is indeed in a hyperbolic situation where non conservatives have chosen the republican candidate.. and also the democrat candidates..
The truth is to express a hyperbolic situation you MUST USE hyperbolic terms.. ELSE you are spreading disinformation and LIES.. like all three current candidates..
Alan Keyes speaks the truth.. Albeit as a "preacher"...
All three candidates are "PREACHING" something.. as is every post on this thread.. To be against Keyes "FOR PREACHING" is a bit disunion's.. Little wonder the republican party is an oblivious.. eye rolling drooling lot.. When what the republican party NEEDS IS A PREACHER...
The republicans WILL GET A PREACHER alright..
Obama or the Hildebeast.. John McLaim is a boring DRONE..
My NEXT screed will be against those against Ron Paul..
He also IS A PREACHER..
This is the first time.
This is the first time.
This is the first time.
This is the first time.
I don't think that is going to happen. He seems to be in for the long haul. Dr. Keyes realizes the need to build a real conservative party in this country.
What I can't understand is all teh animosity towards Keyes on this site. he is one of the most articulate, prncipled, intelligent conservative leaders we have today. You may or may not support him for Presidnet, but this constant trashign of him speaks ill of my fellow FReepers.
Keyes is a far cry ahead of the other acts playing, and he will get my support, along with other conservatives, be they Republicans, independents, Constitutional Party, Libertarians or Democrats.
Don Quixote lives!
Except for the fact that he's insane, you're right. And I voted for him in the '96 primary.
This could get VERY interesting, with Keye and Barr from the right and Nader and McKinney from the left.
Or Greens, Reform, Independence, Peace and Freedom, whatever.
BTW, it's the Constitution Party,. not Constitutional, but the point remains valid.
BTW, it’s the Constitution Party,. not Constitutional, but the point remains valid.
Thanks for the correction. I don’t expect to see conservatives running in the Green Party.
Not sure why so many people are angry at Keyes.
The Party has already clearly left us. Many of us are gradually leaving the Party now.
Then let me explain it to you.
In 2000, he rightfully condemned Hillary Clinton for carpetbagging in New York.
In 2004, he carpetbagged in Illinois.
He lost all credibility in terms of integrity and yet he still tries to climb on that high horse and preach about his purity to others.
Chill OUT.
Look, you may like listening to Alan Keyes, and you may agree with everything he says, but he has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected.
You can stand on principle all year long, while the rest of us work to rescue the country from the disaster of an Obama presidency.
I will support a candidate who is electable. Keyes is NOT.
Actually, his rhetoric is mild compared to yours. Go take a nap, please.
“He lost all credibility in terms of integrity and yet he still tries to climb on that high horse and preach about his purity to others.”
What does it matter? Who even pays attention to him?
My point was really less about Alan Keyes than the GOP. Both of them are shells of their former selves.
It’s probably because he’s a bit of a nag.
Ditto.
I leave the GOP after the primary next Tuesday. Keyes will get my vote next week and in November.
Actually, it’s not really fair to blame Keyes for Obama. If Keyes hadn’t run, NOBODY would have been running. It’s really the fault of the Michigan Republican party for not being able to find a reasonable candidate.
Sure have to love the delusions of granduer from Alan Keyes
NO republican is electable.. you are oblivious..
Most American women and many men WANT Universal Health Care..
And they will have it..
An electable republican is not a republican but a poseur..
And any that votes for him is a DUPE..
It may be unfair to Keyes himself but much of it can be placed at the feet of his supporters here many of whom are exasperating when it comes to discussing anything about Keyes. They refuse to admit commonly known facts calling people liars and leap on any criticism like it was a heresy.
Then you have campaign personnel, like Eternal Vigilance (there are others), who won't disclose their ties to the Keyes organization on Keyes threads.
They act like a cult. FReepers don't like cults.
It ain't pretty. Keyes and his fund raising cohorts almost destroyed the Minutemen as well. They can engage in any shenanigans they want and I'll just walk away from them but when the start pulling other good organizations into their web of “intrigues” then I draw the line.
You should check the financial reports...if you can get a hold of them.
Exactly why I will write him in this November. Screw the republicans.
You probably won't have to. He's likely to be the Constitution Party nominee.
> In 2000, he rightfully condemned Hillary Clinton for carpetbagging in New York.
In 2004, he carpetbagged in Illinois.
He lost all credibility in terms of integrity and yet he still tries to climb on that high horse and preach about his purity to others.
He would have been all right (not that he would have won), IMHO, if he had just stood up and said that he was representing the Republican Party of IL only because the Democrats had illegally obtained prejudicial and perhaps false information on the Republican candidate at the 11th hour. That is, he didn't need to pretend to be of Illinois, only that the Republican Party had been unfairly disadvantaged and Republican voters unfairly deprived of a candidate.Which has some similarities with the case of Robert Torricelli, but also some differences. The similarity was that Torricelli became unelectable late in the campaign, and the Democratic Party switched their candidate. The differences were that Torricelli's crookedness was already under investigation and should have been acted on at the time that the Democratic Party nominated Torricelli for reelection to the Senate, and the Democrats waited until past the time when NJ state law said that parties were entitled to switch candidates. SFAIK neither of those things were true of the Republican Party of IL and their initial nominee for Senate that year. Another difference, obviously, was that the Democratic Party of NJ had a retired senator on the bench, whereas the Republican Party of IL was obviously caught completely flatfooted when their initial candidate's candidacy imploded.
Keyes should have deflected any questions about IL geography and special interests by reference to the dirty way that Ryan was knocked out of the race. Otherwise he should have stayed out altogether. But in retrospect it was in any event a pretty long shot to try to win statewide office in IL as a Republican.
But the Illinois GOP once again proved that it was cowardly, corrupt and collaborators with the Dem run Chicago Media.
Way to not ping people when you talk about them. I don't follow the middle-school-like pissing contests that much here on FR, but I can never recall EV hiding his association with Keyes.
And as far as all the Minutemen drama last year is concerned, it was about 8 or so freepers, nearly all of whom are now banned, engaging in nonsensical speculation, guilt-by-association and assorted other tactics, only to get their asses handed to them within 10 posts. Though I must admit that people posting stuff from the frigging Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU to make a point on a conservative website was amusing as hell.
Looks like the Republicans are getting nervous.
If anyone wants on or off the new Keyes ping list, FReepmail me.
Thanks for the heads-up.
You mean when he came in to try and put up some defense because the IL Republicans were defamed and their candidate destroyed at the last moment? Sure, that's aaaalll Keyes' fault.
Imagine a dyed-in-the-wool conservative being beaten by a wacko liberal in bright blue Illinois. Who'da thunk it?
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