Posted on 11/19/2010 10:03:53 AM PST by Leaning Right
Keyes tries to make the argument that Palin is being led astray by some of her advisors.
From the article: "Yet the telltale flaw in Palin's supposedly conservative credentials is a proven penchant for relying on advisers who mislead her into decisions that are anything but conservative."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I was simply responding to the content of your post, which was inaccurate.
This is not a swipe at you but I hate it when some guy that has had some public job in the past is referred to as if he still has it. Keyes has not been ambassador to anything for decades. Jeb is not a gov, Bill is not a president and neither is George or George or Jimmy. Newt ain't speaker of anything anymore. These are our positions and they don't belong to anyone such that they get to drag them around as if they own them forever. And profit personally off of them. They have already been paid.
The media uses these previous monikers for people that once held a temp job because it gives the person more, ug!, gravitas. I like Keyes but he is just another guy with an opinion, that's all.
I’ve said before that I’d have these two be friends. Alan can give Sarah a graduate-level course on conservative principles. Sarah can give Alan some pointers on how to win elections.
She campaigned heavily this year for her favorite Republican Senator, McCain. That ought to give people a clue.
But, no - folks on our side are taken in by her just as the Left was taken in by Obama.
An empty suit is still an empty suit.
Of course, that was the title of the article. It was the Palin part of it that got me a bit worked up.
My apologies if I violated a posting guideline here.
By the way, you don’t even need to include McCain in this, necessarily. Scheunemann’s lobbying firm has had Soros’ Open Society Policy Center as a client for almost ten years, and that relationship is a continuing one from all the information I’ve seen. Big bucks.
Since when was Keyes EVER for Romney?
You don't have to apologize to me. I'm not a moderator or the proprietor.
And it probably won't matter anyway. It's apparently open season on Dr. Keyes on FR these days, sadly.
All I would ask you to do, once you calm down, is to put the personalities aside, those of both Keyes and Palin, and give serious thought to the actual words of that article. Because what he said is incisively true about the condition of this republic. And he's saying things few others even seem to understand and therefore have the ability to articulate.
In every respect the American body politic is wasting away. We see this in the reality of crushing national debt and imminent bankruptcy that threatens to collapse our economic system. We see it in the malaise of dysfunctional behavior that threatens to collapse the vital structures of our social life. We see it in the heedless self-indulgence that wrecks the lives of individuals and families. The moral and spiritual understanding, resources and habits that are the key to forestalling this collapse are everywhere under assault, and almost always that assault comes from some self-serving elements of the elite, seeking to maximize their profit, power or personal ambition by inducing or encouraging vices and addictions (dependencies) they can profitably exploit.At its inception, the American political system was devised by leaders who intended its constitutional provisions to limit the harm that could be done by such exploitative elites. But those provisions implicitly relied on a certain moral understanding and character. The key elements of the requisite moral understanding are articulated in the ideas and reasoning epitomized in the American Declaration of Independence. The key elements of the requisite moral character were supported by religious and educational institutions (beginning of course with the God-endowed natural family) that conveyed and built upon the moral understanding.
If, as many grass-roots conservatives now proclaim, we truly aim to restore and perpetuate the constitutional, democratic republic, we must discard the destructive syndrome of self-serving elite ambition characteristic of the present so-called two-party system. We must discard the masquerade of mutual negativity through which its manipulators seek to herd us toward a totalitarian socialist future under their domination. The American republic represents a positive idea of justice and decent community that begins from the simple premise of God's creation and concludes in the insistent expectation that the exercise of human power must conform to its moral requirements.
-- Alan Keyes
Bingo. Alan needs to officially sit down and shut up.
Thank you Dr. Keyes for both Senator and President Obama. Thanks also to the Chicago Tribune and the Illinois Republican Central Committee.
"Officially," huh? Do you have any clue how you actually sound?
"Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech." -- Benjamin Franklin
I agree 100%, but the standard is to use the title of these grandees until their death.
Truth be known, I used his title because I could not remember if it were Alan or Allan. When I write posts I usually am on a mission and don’t have time to look up things like that.
Yeah, well, Obama and Kirk “know how to win elections.”
How’s that workin’ out for ya?
“It appears that Alan is suffering from Attention To Me Deficit Disorder again.”
Exactly.
Were it not for Keyes and the ILRCC Obama, who was eminently beatable in his Senate race, wouldn't be where he is today.
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Sadly, that's about all this is about.
No. I rather have the people of the state of Illinois step up to defend (((their))) state’s senate seat from a Marxist.
If they have to import a guy from Maryland for the express purpose of doing a job they are too spineless to do, then why should anyone reward them with a win?
And that import did a lousy job, as you can see today.
That's probably because they are too stupid to grasp the brilliance of Dr. Keyes. Pretty scary, isn't it?
Illinois got Obama because that’s what they preferred. Same with the rest of the country. They didn’t want leaders who challenged them to do the hard work of doing their citizen duty and restoring moral self-governance in this country. They wanted cotton candy inanities, even though those inanities masked Marxist ideologues.
And of course, throughout that campaign, just like on this thread, Alan was savaged first and foremost by Republicans, using the Alinskyite tactics they borrowed from Obama and Co.
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