But, what the heck, let's make one more attempt at eliciting decent, honest, discourse from you.
Ansel12, if your vote was the deciding presidential vote, and you knew that, and your choices were Barack Hussein Obama, John Judas McCain, and Alan Keyes, who would you choose?
“Instead, Keyes formed a new third party, America’s Independent Party, for his presidential candidacy.”
“Departure from Republican Party
Keyes first stated that he was considering leaving the Republican Party during a January 2008 appearance on The Weekly Filibuster radio show.[84] He did not withdraw his candidacy after John McCain won the necessary 1,191 delegates to the Republican National Convention, even though he was no longer campaigning for the Republican nomination.[82] On March 27, 2008, Keyes’s campaign website began displaying the Constitution Party’s logo, along with a parody of the trademarked GOP logo in the form of a dead elephant.[85] This appeared to be an indication of Keyes’s intentions to quit the Republican party and to begin officially seeking the Constitution Party’s presidential nomination.
On April 15, Keyes confirmed his split from the Republican Party and his intention to explore the candidacy of the Constitution Party.[86][87] He lost his bid for the party’s nomination, however, coming in second to 2004 CP vice presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin at the party’s national convention in Kansas City, Missouri on April 26, 2008.[88] During the convention, the party’s founder, Howard Phillips, gave a controversial speech in which he referred to Keyes as “the Neocon candidate” who “lingered in the Republican Party until a week ago.”[89] Following the defeat, Keyes held an interview with Mike Ferguson[90] in which he compared his defeat to an abortion.[91] Later, Keyes told a group of his supporters that he was “prayerfully considering” making a continued bid for the presidency as an independent candidate,[92] and asserted his refusal to endorse Baldwin’s candidacy.[93]
Instead, Keyes formed a new third party, America’s Independent Party, for his presidential candidacy. America’s Independent Party gained the affiliation of a faction of California’s American Independent Party. However, the AIP ticket, which had Brian Rohrbough of Colorado as its vice presidential candidate, was only on the ballot in California, Colorado, and Florida.
In the federal election held on November 4, 2008, Keyes received 47,694 votes nationally to finish seventh.[94] About 86% (40,673) of the votes he received were cast in California.”
If pigs had wings who would you vote for?