Posted on 09/09/2008 12:54:43 PM PDT by mnehring
Alan Keyes, America’s Independent Party nominee for President, has written a commentary for WorldNetDaily which takes a concerned tone towards Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s soul. In reply to commentators he says claim guidance from the Bible, Keyes cites 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 (chastising believers not to be “unequally yoked with unbelievers”) and argues that these same commentators should take note of the spiritual implications of Palin’s place on John McCain’s ticket:
With these words in mind, their first concern should be for their sister in faith, who may be risking her moral and spiritual integrity by placing herself under the authority of someone who has provably abandoned God’s will on the most fundamental moral issues of our times. Perhaps they have not given much thought to the yoke involved in accepting the office of vice president. At the very least, it implies a pledge of personal loyalty to the president with whom you serve, a pledge that means nothing if it does not extend to situations where you disagree with his decisions. What happens when President McCain joins forces with the pro-abortion Democrats to remove restrictions on research that involves destroying embryonic life? If Vice President Palin speaks out publicly in disagreement with the decision, she will violate her pledge of loyalty to the president. She will also risk introducing divisions into the executive branch that are inconsistent with the clear language of the Constitution. If she keeps silent, she risks giving scandal to fellow Christians in the way St. Paul warned against in his first letter to the Corinthians [1 Corinthians 8: 10-12]
Keyes goes on criticize Palin for her record on separation of powers, which does not match his own views on the correct relationship between the branches of government, discussing her veto of an act of the Alaskan Legislature that effectively gave homosexual state employees marriage benefits:
One of her advisers, Kevin Clarkson, claims that she did so on his advice, on the specious grounds that the law would have made permanent the changes ordered by the Alaska Supreme Court. But in Alaska as elsewhere in our republic, the Judicial Branch has no constitutional authority to carry out the laws. The executive power, which is to say the force of law, is entirely vested in the chief executive. Therefore, no regulations issued by the Alaska Supreme Court have the force of law. Where the chief executive and the legislature agree, as they did in this instance, that the judiciary had superseded its legal and constitutional boundaries, the Court’s preferred regulations were a dead letter. However, Gov. Palin’s veto gave credence to the Court’s usurpation.
Keyes sums up this argument suggesting that Palin might make a good fit for McCain after all. The complete article can be read here.
So what exactly has Keyes managed to accomplish since he left the State department over 20 years ago?
I don’t know what kind of situation you walked into, but I’ve seen Alan consistently take large amounts of time to patiently listen to and talk to thousands and thousands of people all across the country. IOW, the person you describe, with the attitude you attribute to him, does not exist.
Shoot, you can talk to him personally tonight, if you want. Just let me know and I’ll give you the call-in number.
He's one of the few leaders left in this country pointing the people back to the foundational principles our free republic is built upon.
Do you think that's perhaps worth something?
He's one of the few leaders left in this country pointing the people back to the foundational principles our free republic is built upon.
Do you think that's perhaps worth something?
No Republican could have salvaged that race, and you know it.
He knew it going in, but went because they begged him to, and if he hadn’t, Obama’s pro-death record would have gone unexposed. They were going to run a pro-abort woman if he continued to refuse.
Nope. Results are what matters. You can have all the lofty ideas you want, but if you can't deliver results you have accomplished nothing. All Keyes has accomplished is to lose races by larger and larger margins.
Well, if your plumbline for “relevance” is electoral success, I’m sure you’re a big Bill Clinton fan, then.
Not at all. Perhaps you need better reading comprehension. I was asking what has Keyes actually accomplished and that results, not just ideas in ones head, matter.
By the way, thanks for the link to America’s Independent Party.
It was started by FReepers, myself included, only a few short months ago, and is already the third-largest political party in the country, based on voter registration.
The Vice-President’s offices, even if that VP has the stomach for fighting their own CiC, which is by no means certain, are not a sufficient counterweight to John McCain’s obviously liberal policies. Not even close. And the Republican Party can no longer be relied upon to pursue policies that forward the conservative agenda.
Well, he was part of the conservative forces that made John Judas McCain pick Sarah Palin instead of Joe Lieberman.
You have nothing to gain by attacking your fellow conservatives, that’s all I was saying. I’m finished on the subject.
I request that you remove the “barf alert” from this headline. There’s nothing in Dr. Keyes’ piece that is out of line with FR’s mission statement at all.
I’ve requested that your “barf alert” be removed from the headline. This is the premiere independent conservative site on the web, not a cover-for-Republicans-at-all-cost one.
It was probably a little disgusting but since he's become a legend in his own mind and spent the last what, 6, 8 years, running to any State with an open Senate, and making a laughingstock of himself, I've decided to disrespect him. (:^[)
I request that you modify the (Barf Alert) in this headline to ready (Thermonuclear Vomit Blast Alert).
That’s still an understatement, but Keyes so often beggars the language.
I’ve requested that your ‘barf alert’ in the headline be amplified appropriately.
Don’t hide that light under a bushel!
In all honesty I prefer Governors as President rather than Senators.. They tend to have more executive experience imho..
One thing, we are electing a COMMANDER IN CHIEF NOT A PASTOR IN CHIEF!!!
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