[DrMartinVonNostrand]

I wasn't around these parts during the 2000 primaries. You mean to say there was actually a big Alan Keyes contingent here??
And they were taken serious??? NO ONE supported Keyes.

Wow. I didn't realize just how serious "death-before-electibility" really is.

[EternalVigilance]

NO ONE supported Keyes.

One million plus Republicans voted for Keyes in 2000. They, as a group, then supported George W. Bush.

That is the fact, so don't join the ranks of the slanderers and the historical revisionists of FR who are grinding a personal axe.

[onyx]

You've already tangled with a couple of our "slit-your-wrist-keysters" --- LOL!

[EternalVigilance]

Wow. I didn't realize just how serious "death-before-electibility" really is.

I didn't realize before this how many 'electibility-before-principle' types had come to inhabit FR.

Sad.

[sinkspur]

You mean to say there was actually a big Alan Keyes contingent here??

Yep. And EV was one of the leaders of the Keysters. Always in everybody's faces.

And they were taken serious??? NO ONE supported Keyes

Well, as to taken seriously, they were taken as seriously as Keyes was.

But, they are representative of the all-or-nothing contingent around here. I call them the unappeaseables.

Keyes completely lost his credibility around here when, in August of 2001, he basically called Bush a "murderer" for his stem cell decision. Even some of the true believers were appalled.

[Lazamataz]

I wasn't around these parts during the 2000 primaries. You mean to say there was actually a big Alan Keyes contingent here?? And they were taken serious??? NO ONE supported Keyes. Wow. I didn't realize just how serious "death-before-electibility" really is.

Easy does it, Sparky. You're bending too far the other way. Keyes was an exceptional and erudite man, and his inclusion in the debates raised the caliber thereof.