We can’t win with a third party strategy.
Granted, in states which allow a candidate to run under more than one Party label, it might make some sense.
But, again, if you can not get a majority of Republicans to support you, how on Earth will you get a majority of the General Population to agree with you??
I thought Keys wasn’t a Republican anymore.
The Obama faction is synthesizing communist goals and political tactics with means drawn from the playbook of National Socialism (translated as "globalism" these days).
the Republican Party stands quietly by as the Constitution is shredded, the country run to bankruptcy, and the people turned from sovereign citizens to bleating subjects
I still believe the overthrow of the republic can be undone. But the turnaround will not begin until the conservative grassroots abandon the dead end goal of saving the Republican Party. Let the so-called leaders play out their charade, while the citizen leaders, instead of watching, set to work on the achievable miracle of saving the Republic.
Well done, Dr. Keyes! Thank you.
I used to like Steele, but when I read about his feelings regarding legislation on what he refers to as "assault weapons" he lost me.
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Nicely done Dr. Keyes. I think he might feel at home in Texas ;^)
I turned away from Alan a long time ago, after he said that fathers behind on alimony/support should be caned (Singapore style). He’s a politician.
If Alan Keyes wants to lead he should start by convincing Republican Party that he can be a leader. When he manages that, he will be in a position to lead the rest of the country.
I pretty much agree with everything he wrote.
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So, basically Keyes is using a very broad brush to paint economic conservatives as unprincipled; even goes so far as to state that economic conservative like it when government interferes in the marketplace because it represents an opportunity to profit from the largess. Just who are these unprincipled economic conservatives — slash — materialists? All of the economic conservatives that I know loath government intervention. Keyes is just adding to our division. That’s okay...we’ll just wait around for the major realignment where SoCons like Keyes can join the Left once the Left becomes pro life/pro family...he’ll find all the principles he can want and stand with his newest natuarl allies.
Am I the only one who thinks Keyes is a bit loopy?
I believe that there are Republicans who hope to suppress Constitutional conservative third party advances just as much as there are RINOs who would suppress true conservatism if given a chance, and Democrats who want to suppress the Blue Dogs.
As has been said many times, the Republican Party at present, save a very few of them within, is a Democrat Party Lite.
The downward spiral just continues and continues and continues, the two major parties just chasing each other down the vortex into out Marxist-socialism.
The only way for conservative third parties to advance in a meaningful way at this point is for three of them to get together and run candidates together. I don't know that the compromises necessary among them to do that will not actually be grabbing the tail of the two major parties and following them down the same sewer drain. All three of them of which I am thinking may be too afraid of that very thing to give it a shot.
I know one thing for sure. We've got to turn the monster back by 2010 and 2012, or it will be irreversible by 2014. It won't be accomplished with the likes of the majority of Republicans currently in Congress.
Dr. Keys is correct about materialistic conservatism. Much more than economics must be pursued by conservatives, without stifling economic conservatism.
Absolutely freakin’ brilliant!
What Keyes describes so well is basically the final scene Animal Farm.