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"It was definitely politically motivated," he said. "We were getting ready to have a rally in the lot when we pulled up in the truck. The male police officer stopped the truck. He asked to see the driver's CDL license. The female police officer was makin' all kinds of accusations that Barack Obama was going to beat Alan Keyes. She said, 'Obama gonna whip Keyes's ass anyway. He ain't nothin' but a gay basher.' I basically said to her that 'OK, you support Barack Obama and I support Alan Keyes.' After that she just exploded. She told the male officer...

I was just on a website reviewing the various proposals that Californians will be voting for next month, and I clicked on their "President" link. Lo and behold, I see that after Obama and McCain, the next name that will actually appear on the ticket is Alan Keyes, running as an American Independent.I think he's a little extreme, but I'm considering casting a protest vote for him, if only to send the message "I am not happy with our current GOP choice." Now, before you tell me I'm throwing my vote away, consider: I live in California, land of fruit...

Former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes commented Sept. 23 on the federal government's bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The former Assistant Secretary of State, currently running for president as an independent, said the bailout plan as proposed by the Bush administration would effectively transform our nation into "a socialist society." The following is the text of Keyes' statement: What I have to say about the bailout is that, with a concrete proposal on the table, it becomes much more obvious what is actually going on right now, and I think that we have to confront it. And...

There will be a record number of presidential candidates before the voters on the general election ballot in Florida. Secretary of State Kurt Browning has certified 13 candidates, including U.S. Sen. John McCain and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, for the Nov. 4 election; with space on the ballot to write-in another. County supervisors of elections are expected to complete their ballots early next week, as they have to be ready to mail overseas by Sept. 20. The ballot also includes perennial candidates James Harris of Florida’s Socialist Workers Party and Ralph Nader, now of the Ecology Party of Florida, along...

Lawsuit over McCain citizenship should be tossed, GOP lawyers say By Josh Richman Oakland Tribune Article Launched: 08/28/2008 06:19:23 PM PDT Lawyers for John McCain and the state and national Republican Party on Thursday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the candidate's place on California's Nov. 4 ballot. Markham Robinson of Vacaville, chairman-elect of California's American Independent Party, sued McCain, the GOP and California Secretary of State Debra Bowen on Aug. 11, arguing the presidential candidate's birth 72 years ago today in the Panama Canal Zone means he's not a "natural-born citizen" — a...

This amusing story comes from Ballot Access News: Section 192.031 of the Texas election code says that political parties must certify their presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the November ballot no later than 70 days before the general election. It says, “A political party is entitled to have the names of its nominees for president and vice-president placed on the ballot if before 5 p.m. of the 70th day before presidential election day, the party’s state chair signs and delivers to the secretary of state a written certification of the name’s of the party’s nominees for president and vice-president.” This...

Remember the hot immigration debate? The topic won't be headlining either presidential convention this year — and the border security issue barely drew a crowd Monday to a daylong anti-illegal immigration rally in Denver aimed at keeping immigration before politicians this fall. A rally by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps featuring Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr drew just a few dozen people...

MASSIVE Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally at the Democrat Convention! August 25th! We've got some BIG NEWS for you -- the all-star lineup of speakers at the Rally Against Illegal Immigration just got even BETTER! We've just confirmed that Ambassador Alan Keyes, Congressman Bob Barr, and Reverend Chuck Baldwin -- all of them running for U.S. President -- PLUS anti-amnesty hero Rep. Tom Tancredo, will ALL be speaking at the day-long rally, right near the Democratic National Convention! You DO NOT want to miss this event!!!

Just received in my e-mailbox. Maybe they can make a trip to McCain HQ next: DENVER, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Colorado Right to Life and American Right to Life will stand with black leaders from around the country at their Power in the Park rally and press conference on August 25, 2008, 8:30 am at Martin Luther King Park, one block from the largest Planned Parenthood abortuary in the nation. The killing center, dubbed Auschwitz, by local opponents of the racist organization, is situated in north Denver’s minority neighborhood - consistent with the patterns of targeting minorities noted by Blackgenocide.org....

It’s a piece of political conventional wisdom that’s been repeated many times: The cover-up is usually worse than the crime. A series of votes by Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate, however, turns that famous statement on its head. As a state legislator, Obama spoke out against, and voted down, a bill that would have explicitly extended legal protections to born-alive premature infants. In other words, he cast a vote against banning infanticide. Making matters worse — if such a thing is possible — the explanation Obama has peddled over the years to justify his vote has recently been exposed...

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do." "I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate. "'Barack...

Alan Keyes' Wrecking CrewBy FrontPage MagazineFrontPageMagazine.com | 7/21/2008 SINCE BEING REJECTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN AND CONSTITUTION PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS, perennial candidate Alan Keyes is now attempting to inflict himself upon the American Independent Party. A high-decibel Harold Stassen, the Energizer Loser keeps running, and running, and running… Predictably, he failed in the democratic contest for this one-state party’s byline, but his supporters are attempting to force him onto the ballot, anyway.    For those who hadn’t noticed Keyes’ latest presidential campaigns (or perhaps his perpetual campaign, spilling over leap-years), Keyes ran unsuccessfully for Senate in Maryland twice (1988 and 1992),...

(SNIP) Borling, who described himself Friday as a "Republican-leaning independent," praised Abboud as "a fiscal conservative and a social moderate" with "extraordinary judgment and intelligence." He also took a swipe at Manzullo, serving his eighth term by saying: "The nation suffers from career politicians who believe they are owed lifetime appointment." Borling faulted Manzullo for his key role in importing Alan Keyes from Maryland to carry the Illinois Republicans' banner in the 2004 U.S. Senate race, a move that Borling said "was and is an outrage." Borling, who supports abortion rights, said Manzullo exhibits a "lack of toleration and moderation...

Let's do everything we can as conservatives to split our vote (Ron Paul, Bob Barr, etc.) and elect a Democrat to the White House in November... Greetings citizens and registered voters; in the State of Mass. This request is not to tell you to vote for Alan Keyes. I would simply like to have everyone get to know the Man. Hear him and place his name on the November 2008 General Election ballot. You can speak with him each Tues. & Thurs. 10pm EST at (231) 962-8000, Access Code 340794# on his “Ask Alan” conference calls. Don't vote for Alan...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll has shown a very close race between John McCain and Barack Obama. For most of the past week, they have been essentially tied with typically 4% of voters saying they prefer some other candidate and a similar number remaining undecided. A separate survey found slightly different results when third-party candidates were mentioned by name. In a four-way race, Obama earns 42% of the vote, McCain 38%, Bob Barr 6% and Ralph Nader 4%. Given those options, 11% were undecided. Barr and Nader were mentioned as candidates of the Libertarian Party and the Green...

Election '08: Barack Obama's interview on "Fox News Sunday" showed a liberal uncomfortable with the truth. He is often compared to JFK, a leader who made tough choices. But Obama turns out to be a profile in porridge. When Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was asked by Bill Moyers in a PBS interview about Obama's attempt to separate himself from Wright's anti-American and racist remarks in Obama's Philadelphia speech, Wright said: "I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bites, he responded as...

Constitution Party stunner: Chuck Baldwin KOs firebrand Alan Keyes Convening its national convention in Kansas City today, the Constitution Party picked radio talk-show host Chuck Baldwin over former Ambassador Alan Keyes as its 2008 presidential candidate. The pick was seen as something of an upset, given Keyes' higher national profile. Known for his fiery stem-winders, Keyes is a two-time GOP presidential candidate who abandoned the Republican Party this month to join the Constitution Party, which believes in limited government and is committed to ending abortion and bringing American troops home from Iraq. But Baldwin's roots in the Constitution Party run...

The link to audio of the speech is reproduced in post #2. It's 22 minutes long.

While Democrats and Republicans look months ahead to the national conventions of their parties, one political group gathers in our backyard this week to declare its presidential nominee. The Constitution Party is holding its national convention through Saturday at the Downtown Marriott in Kansas City. As its name implies, the party has as its guiding principle a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Its mission statement reads, in part: "It is our goal to limit the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, Constitutional functions and to restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations." The party began in 1992...

So Alan Keyes has announced he’s leaving the Republican Party. Over the last few months, I’ve received numerous emails and comments from those hoping that Keyes would enter the presidential race in some capacity: either as a candidate for the top spot, or that one of those running would select him for veep. Many of those people believe he has the conservative credentials to codify a fractured Republican voting block. I beg to differ. This morning, I received the following press release from a publicist… ALAN KEYES LEAVES REPUBLICAN PARTY Will the Republican Party Go the Way of the Whigs?...

Press conference with Alan Keyes April 15, 2008 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Hazleton, Pennsylvaniawww.alankeyes.com

Former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes has chosen April 15 to make a major announcement of his intentions, following indications he has broken with the GOP. A life-long Republican who has increasingly cited the party's failure to match conservative rhetoric with actual performance in the political arena, Keyes said he will reveal his reasons for departing the GOP at a press conference scheduled for 8:30 pm ET, at the Best Western Genetti Inn in Hazleton, PA. The event will be video-streamed live at Keyes' website, www.AlanKeyes.com. Keyes added that he is looking to the Constitution Party as a possible home...

Presidential Nominating Convention Event day: 4/22/2008 Event end day: 4/27/2008 City: Kansas City, MO Organization: Constitution Party Location: KANSAS CITY MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN, 200 West 12th Street Cost: $0.00 Message was posted at: 3/22/2008 3:03:39 AM Alan Keyes and Ron Paul (who is still a Republican) vie for the Presidential nomination of the Constitution Party

Exclusive: Gordon James Klingenschmitt on why Alan Keyes will be his choice In a recent WND column, Janet Folger begs social conservatives to vote for John McCain. She believes McCain will rescue "most everyone" from our political "burning building" – when in fact McCain has already locked arms with the Kennedys, Feingolds and liberal Democrats to keep social conservatives "out" of politics while they burn our constitutional republic to the ground. Like our mutual friend Alan Keyes, I've been a lifelong Republican and never voted third party, but this time I've had enough (and apparently so has Alan Keyes, who...

Alan Keyes Leaving Republican Party By John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com JLof@aol.com After 20 or so years of working within the GOP to try and reform it into a more Christian/conservative Party, Dr. Alan Keyes is leaving the Republican Party. He will soon make this announcement and explain why he can no longer, in good conscience, remain a Republican. Many things over the past two decades or so have contributed to Alan’s decision to leave the GOP. One recent example: A secret meeting of some conservative “leaders” discussing not how to oppose John McCain but what promises McCain might make to...

This year, the Constitution Party’s national convention is scheduled for April. The Libertarian Party will convene to nominate its 2008 presidential slate in late May. The Green Party won’t choose its ticket until July. This may not seem unusual (the Republicans and Democrats usually hold their conventions in August or even early September), but third parties and “major parties” face very different sets of obstacles in publicizing their presidential prospects. The Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have been the subject of fawning media coverage for close to two years now. They’ve been debating each other on prime time television for...

Presidential candidate Alan Keyes may be leaving the GOP. In a conference call last night, Keyes is said to have told supporters that staying in the Republican Party would be "an occasion of sin" and he's ready to bolt. Keyes ... reportedly wants no part in selecting the "type of deodorant we need to make a stinking candidate acceptable to conservatives." A Keyes supporter confirms to Radar that the former Reagan administration official "stated in the conference call that he could no longer remain in the Republican Party." As for what's next, a third party bid seems like a good...

Post #2 links to a 75-minute video of the September debate.

DALLAS — During a recent swing through Houston, Galveston, and Dallas, presidential candidate Alan Keyes told voters they don't need to settle for a candidate who isn't a true conservative. "I stood up to run for president this time because I feel people ought always to have [a] choice — a choice they don't have to be ashamed of, they don't have to excuse, they don't have to apologize for, and finally, most importantly, a choice that represents them," Keyes told one group. Keyes said that when he looked at the field of candidates back in September, he felt "like...

Tuesday 4 March 2008: 137 of 140 of Texas's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Texas Presidential Primary. * 96 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 32 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates. These delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders as follows: * If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%), that candidate is allocated all 3 of the district's delegates. [General Rules for All Conventions and Meetings Section 8.a.] *...

Don't hold your nose! Go away from the polling booth with a clear conscience as to whom you stand for! Since Mitt Romney decided to drop out of the presidential race, conservatives have expressed to me that they feel John McCain is the only current choice to vote for, and that they will hold their nose when they do so. Well, if John McCain is the only one who supposedly is running on the Republican ticket, there really isn't a race during the primaries, is there? Believe it or not, there are 2 other Republican candidates (other than Mike Huckabee...

Cameras flashed as Republican Presidential Candidate Doctor Alan Keyes greeted Beaumont. "I'm extremely excited, its been an honor to be involved with the campaign," said Valerie Loewer. Valeria Loewer of Beaumont oragnized the rally "Renew America" at Rogers Park. Loewer said, "Today is important because every day we are moving closer and closer up the primaries, every day is important and the word has to get out, we've got to get out so that we show that we have a choice." Loewer supports Dr. Keyes for his basic platform qualities... pro family, pro life, and pro soverignty. "I'm trying to...

Keyes talks about Romney's exit and McCain's record Says McCain has put ‘knife in the back’ of conservative base February 8, 2008 On Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes commented on Mitt Romney's decision to bow out of the presidential race, saying he never bought into the former Massachusetts governor's "whole phony business" of "reinventing himself" in contradiction of his record. Keyes also addressed Romney's hand in instituting same-sex-marriage, repeating his charge that Romney pushed through same-sex marriage in Massachusetts without obligation or authority to do so, in violation of state law. Keyes' remarks were made on KGNW's Thor Tolo...

Don't hold your nose! Go away from the polling booth with a clear conscience as to whom you stand for! Since Mitt Romney decided to drop out of the presidential race, conservatives have expressed to me that they feel John McCain is the only current choice to vote for, and that they will hold their nose when they do so. Well, if John McCain is the only one who supposedly is running on the Republican ticket, there really isn't a race during the primaries, is there? Believe it or not, there are 2 other Republican candidates (other than Mike Huckabee...

Weaving a patchwork rhetoric of conservative politics and biblical allegories, Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes urged Lubbock residents Monday evening to consider their religious morals the next time they exercise their rights to vote. During his speech at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in south Lubbock, Keyes addressed his political and moral beliefs concerning, among other things, taxation, immigration, abortion, health care and governmental spending to an audience of parishioners and local residents. Democracy, he said, is best conducted by those who are willing to acknowledge that the inherent power of God rests at the heart of a democratic society....

Every weekend is a political weekend these days. Breakfast forums, accountability sessions, campaigning door-to-door. One such event Saturday was the Pearson Group, a two-part event: A debate between District 77 state representative candidates Paul Moreno, the incumbent, and challenger Marisa Marquez; preceding the debate, a speech by presidential candidate Alan Keyes, a Republican from Illinois who ran unsuccessfully for Senate against Barack Obama in 2004. Keyes was an assistant secretary of state under Ronald Reagan from 1985-88, and his campaign literature mentions Reagan often. Keyes focuses on abortion as the key issue of our time, and writes that he is...

Many news organizations report delegate projections based on nonbinding votes for candidate preference. The New York Times counts only delegates that have been officially selected and are bound by their preferences (link in post #2): 695 - Senator McCain 159 - Governor Huckabee 136 - Governor Romney 5 - Congressman Paul 0 - Ambassador Keyes There'll be 2,380 total delegates selected for the national convention, and a candidate will need the votes of 1,191 of them to win the nomination. So far 995 delegates have been officially selected and are bound by their preferences. Senator McCain would still need the...

Why has the campaign of Alan Keyes, who has been dedicated to the causes we hold dear for years, been so neglected by Christian and conservative media and organizations? Alan Keyes came to Florida with constitutional argument in hand for Jeb Bush to prevent the deliberate starvation of Terri Shiavo. He stood with Judge Roy Moore when he was rejected for his installation of a historical monument including the Ten Commandments. He has stood for a chaplain who was reprimanded for praying in Jesus' name. He has stood with Minutemen by our borders where our federal government fails to carry...

Have you ever asked yourself why the Democratic frontrunner —whoever that may be at the moment — is never mistaken for a closet Republican? Do you ever hear liberals complaining that their party has abandoned them, wishing there was a candidate they could support wholeheartedly — or wondering why the leadership of the various facets of their movement has jumped ship, endorsing someone who holds views antithetical to those the leaders themselves say they stand for? When’s the last time you heard a person planning to vote in the Democratic primaries being lectured about the fact that the vast majority...

Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes may not get invited to the televised debates but that doesn't mean he's going stay out of the fray or attack his opponents when he believes they've abandoned his party's values – particularly on the issue of same-sex marriage. On his campaign website this week, Keyes blasted former Gov. Mitt Romney for being "single-handedly responsible for instituting same-sex marriage in Massachusetts" for the way he responded to a state court ruling in 2003. "Most people are unaware of the way Massachusetts came to adopt same-sex marriage," the former Reagan administration diplomat said. "They think the...

Alan Keyes calling for America’s move back to the ‘Kingdom of God’ By Nick Georgiou Staff Reporter San Marcos — GOP Presidential Candidate Alan Keyes considers himself the complete conservative. He's against abortion, gay marriage, the welfare system and the income tax. And he believes America has moved from “the kingdom of God to the kingdom of darkness - of lies and deception.” Keyes was in San Marcos Friday to discuss this issue and gain support as part of a six-week grassroots tour of Texas. He is no stranger to government. For almost three decades, Keyes, who earned a doctorate...

America is in the midst of an all-important electoral campaign. But, talking to Europeans, I've discovered that there is puzzlement and misinformation on your continent about what's happening on ours. Europeans feel an understandable confusion when faced with a political system consisting of two houses of Congress and a White House, and nobody is home in any of them. Also, America's political parties are indistinguishable to the European eye. A British journalist once described the situation thus: "America is a one-party state, but just like Americans they've got two of them." (I forget which British journalist said that. But there...

Alan Keyes hasn’t had much luck in his current run for the Republican Presidential nomination. In 2000, Keyes provided a credible vehicle for some conservative Christians to cast a protest vote against George Bush and John McCain. But this time around the field is much more split and competitive, and he just hasn’t connected with voters or been able to raise very much money. This year he received so few votes in Iowa that the state party didn’t even bother to report the count. In New Hampshire he polled a meager 206 votes or 0.1% of the total. He failed...

Okay, now that there really aren't any conservatives among the Republican candidates, I'm left scratching my head over what to do. I don't want to sit out the election and hand the presidency over to HillUbama, but I honestly don't think there is any amount of 'nose holding' I could do in good conscience to vote for Romney, McCain, Huckabee or Rudy. That leaves...Alan Keyes. I went to his website and found this page concerning the issues, and while I haven't read it all in great detail, what I've skimmed tonight I like, and it is in line with a...

Things have changed dramatically for Freepers after Fred Thompson dropped out today. How did you vote and why?

Alan Keyes launches Texas swing January 22, 2008 On Tuesday, presidential candidate Alan Keyes began a six-week grassroots tour of Texas, originally his home state. Keyes is a 1968 graduate of Cole High School in San Antonio. Although Keyes will make excursions outside Texas as needed, and will continue his nationwide radio blitz to counter the media's virtual blackout of his campaign, he plans to camp out in Texas until its primary on March 4. As most pundits agree, if Super Tuesday fails to produce a "presumptive" Republican nominee, Texas becomes all the more important as the last big prize...

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Alan Keyes came in third in a presidential straw poll conducted Tuesday by the St. George unit of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. Ron Paul led the balloting, followed by Mitt Romney. Filling out the field were John McCain, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani. The local conservative organization — which calls itself the Dixie Republican Forum, taking its name from the southern-most region of Utah — invited representatives of all the major GOP candidates to address a luncheon held in the St. George Holiday Inn. Speaking on behalf of Alan Keyes...

America is missing out on Alan Keyes. Many conservatives have told me they didn't even know Keyes was running for President...he is. Keyes has announced his candidacy since September 2007. The media and the Republican Party don't hesitate to leave him out of debates or the spotlight even though he has declared he's running and has not dropped out of the race. Iowa's caucuses were on Jan. 3rd. Iowa's Republican Party has yet to disclose the number of votes Alan Keyes received in Iowa. John Lund of the Des Moines, Iowa Republican Headquarters said, "We didn't have the electronic means...

Alan Keyes, A Black Conservative Christian American running for President