I seriously doubt that, unless Illinois Freepers know something I don't. But Keyes is making us proud nonetheless.
-Dan
A: "Some people say that the war on terror is an issue and I say, 'what issue?' We have people wanting to kill us, this is not an abstraction, it is not a joke and if we don't defend ourselves against them they will kill us in gruesome ways like we saw in Russia. This is not an issue, this is not an option it is a reality and we either deal with it or we die. What do you do about the war on terror is like asking do you want to die. No we don't, therefore we must defend ourselves against this threat, and we have no option and no choice. The issue is how are we going to fight it most effectively, how are we going to make sure we go after the terrorists and pre-empt their violence and destroy them before they destroy us.
"I think we have to destroy their infrastructure and topple the governments that are willing to aid and abet them and possibly give them weapons of mass destruction that could kill hundreds of thousands of Americans. That's what President Bush did and that's what he did in Iraq. Based on the information he had, if he would have acted any other way he would have been irresponsible. I would rather have a President that is able to make a tough decision based on the information he's got to go into Iraq and do what's necessary to prevent weapons of mass destruction that could kill 100,000 people in Chicago than to have somebody that is weighing things out and waiting for the wisdom of hindsight to defend our people. The wisdom of hindsight will leave hundreds of thousands of people dead. The wisdom of hindsight arrives too late to make the decision and that's why I think John Kerry is unfit to be president. He is clearly somebody that would rely on the wisdom of hindsight and that would get us all killed."
Everytime I listen to Keyes I am reminded of what the conservative basics are. Regardless of the non-pc things he says, he is the most straight shooting, articulate conservative I know. He has taken on a huge challenge and if he does nothing more than get people to thinking differently about the role of government in their lives, the campaign will be useful.
Q: You recently rattled some members of your own party when you called Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, "a hedonist" and added that homosexuality is "selfish hedonism." Have you backed off of those comments at all or is that still your stand?So much for the claim Keyes "attacked" the veep's daughter at the convention. Another media myth.A: I want to explain that. I never called Mary Cheney anything. That never happened. What happened was, I was asked a question about gay marriage and gave pretty much the same answer I just gave you...
To say that you can have for the basis for a marriage, a pleasure-seeking relationship does not make any sense. I made that argument which I think is perfectly clear and perfectly logical and I was then asked if I would apply that description to Mary Cheney. I said as far as she is a lesbian and engaged in that type of relationship; by definition she would fall into that category. What am I supposed to say? Well, no because she is a Republican and the daughter of the vice president, out of respect I will exempt her from the truth. That makes no sense.
Go Keyes!
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Q: In the past you have said you would like to eliminate income taxes in favor of a national sales tax. Is that still your stand?Abolish the 16th Amendment ping.A: "I think the oppressive burden of taxation is a discouragement to productivity and job creation and so I've never seen a tax increase that I liked. I'm an opponent of federal income tax. I think it's a system that heavily damages our economic prospects by taking control and the resources out of the hands of people. I want to see it abolished and replaced with a national sales tax, a system that leaves the control of all our earnings in our own hands until we decide how to save it, how to invest it and how to spend it. Instead of taxing our productivity it will only tax us when we are in the public market place."
Why do people find this so difficult? Perhaps it's because they're uncomfortable with the idea of submitting to an authority greater than themselves. But Jesus is the Truth. What other authority should we serve?
If Keyes wishes to verbally challenge abortion, he needs to call out and challenge one of the fundamental creeds of liberalism: if enough people do a wrong thing, it won't be wrong anymore. I know that liberal creed will sound absurd to people who have never been liberal, but it is nonetheless one of the underlying bases of liberalism.
The message Keyes needs to deliver, if he wishes to end abortion, is that not only do two wrongs not make a right, but twenty wrongs won't make a right either; even fifty billion wrongs still won't make a right. People who have been duped by the death cult and are now living with the guilt need to be told that their guilt won't be erased by other people's sins. The only way they can erase their guilt is if they change course and start saving lives.
The liberal belief that enough wrongs will eventually make a right is probably the underlying basis for many if not most of the attrocities mankind has committed throughout history. Attack this belief directly, and liberalism will crumble.
I am still waiting to see some polling out of Illinois... I know keyes is beyond long shot, but other than a poll right when he first was named, I have seen NOTHING on the Senate race in Ill..... Which is just plain weird... less than 2 months until the election, both candidates are black and not one poll at all on the race? Very weird.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - transcript of interview with Alan Keyes. Very interesting. Only part is about "gay" agenda stuff - "gay" marriage and what he actually said in the Signorile interview when Cheney's daughter was dragged in (not by Keyes).
If I was in Illinois I'd vote for him as often as allowed!
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