I worked for Alan Keyes in his 2004 Illinois senatorial campaign against Obama as a surrogate speaker. The man is the most brilliant public speaker and political philosopher that I have ever met in my life. Both the utterly corrupt Democrat and Republican Illinois political establishment conspired to ENSURE the defeat of his admittedly long shot candidacy, because Keyes was an outsider whom they feared was not amenable to their control. particularly with regard to the issue of unrestricted abortion.
Other than my service to this great country in it’s armed forces, there is no other public task of which I am prouder than working for the doomed, Quixotic, futile and rigged crusade to oppose the horrid OBAMAnation that was the usurper from who knows where, Barack Hussein. Mostly everything baleful that Keyes predicted about Obama came to pass, while his corrupted media critics successfully portrayed Keyes as a demented religious zealot.
I think that that 2004 campaign was one of the 5 most disgraceful political events in Illinois history.
Indeed.
IL GOP leaders CHOSE him and then totally didn’t support him. They gave it to Obama. Gave. And this coming off Jack Ryan or whatever his name was dropping out over the most absurd sex scandal in history, wanting to have sex with his own wife. What a travesty.
Of course without Obama GD Hillary would have been elected in 2008.
Thank you for the Freepmail...
I always thought Alan Keyes was a pretty good conservative candidate. He had guns and seemed to stick to them. That is my memory...seems like a long time ago.
I had just about forgotten his role in that Senatorial election. I always remembered him from the Presidential elections. I didn’t agree with him on everything, but I did remember he was an advocate of dumping the tax system. Not much to disagree with him there.
I admire someone in politics who has those views and is a straight speaker. I often just doesn’t fit. Which is why many of us are big fans of President Trump. He doesn’t need to calibrate what he says with any PR team or...anyone. He just shoots from the hip and says what he feels.
I always had much the same impression of Alan Keyes, which I why I suppose I never thought he would make it to the White House. But if we didn’t have President Trump, having someone who holds clear views of reality and isn’t afraid to speak plainly, well, Mr. Keyes wouldn’t be so bad.
Great post, thanks for the behind the scenes info. Did you have any insight into the Ryan campaign?
Alan Keyes turns 70 today.