Posted on 11/10/2005 10:16:56 AM PST by Mike Bates
Alan Keyes' former campaign manager Bill Pascoe jokes that if he ever writes a behind-the-scenes book about the wildest three months in state political history he will use the title, "It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time."
Bring in an intelligent, articulate, famous conservative from Maryland, Keyes, as a pinch-hit U.S. Senate candidate to battle an intelligent, articulate, famous liberal Democrat from Hyde Park, Barack Obama. May the best ideology win!
Keyes went on to get only 27 percent of the vote in November 2004, then refused to make the customary concession call to Obama on the grounds that Obama is "evil." At that time, Pascoe's good idea seemed like the worst idea anyone ever had.
But was it? Looking back a full year on the comically disastrous campaign, it seems more like a tale full of sound and fury that signified nothing.
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Personally I like the man. When he ran for President he didn't overlook the small towns and cities along the campaign trail.
His remarks on personal responsibility and racial profiling didn't go over so well in welfare Jackson.
Alan Keyes is the conservative version of Howard Dean.
Are you referring to Jackson County, down by SIU at Carbondale? That place makes San Francisco look like Salt Lake City.
There is no conservative version of Howard Dean. IMHO.
Jackson Michigan
If not, then Keyes does one hell of an impersonation.
He even has the same effect.
Talk about your vote counting. I voted for him in the Primary. It made me laugh when I saw the results in the paper.
Ward 2 Precinct 2 Keyes - 1
Well put.
George W. Bush is the republican version of Bill Clinton.
At this point, that looks like something he should have done.
Your not the first to say that.
That said, I see alot of personality differences and also alot of different reactions from how the act.
If Bush was a republican version of Bill Clinton, he would have been a hell of alot more slicker.
Alan Keyes is intelligent...so you're comment is demonstrably false.
I still admire Keyes but he's fallen in my estimation since that race. True, the MSM tore him apart, but he ran a terrible campaign. As I recall, he made a senseless remark about so called "tax breaks" for descendants of former slaves (a flip-flop on reparations). Still, the area north of I-80 would have been cut off, Bush would have been an easy winner and the Keyes race would have been close.
He is intelligent, he also acts like a nut.
So my comment is about as false as saying Bush has 2 legs.
Keyes is a nut, a smart nut, but a nut.
On another note, I was really sorry to hear that another black conservative, Vernon Robinson, lost in the NC primary in his congressional race. Again, the MSM ripped him to shreds.
I suppose it's a matter of where one puts the emphasis when comparing Keyes to Dean. Dean is an idiot and outright insane. Keyes is quite intelligent, however he is outside of the mainstream (defining the mainstream as the 25% to either side of center). They are probably about equally far to their respective ends of the spectrum...there are many who are much more left than Dean politically. (just not too many as insane, however...well, there is Gore, and Kucinich).
Thats the thing.
I don't think Keyes is outside the mainstream.
I think he acts like he is outside the mainsteam and attacks those who might want to agree with him.
Dean, is a nut who acts like a nut and has no understanding of reality so he has no idea he is outside the mainstream.
Keyes acts like a nut who has no idea he actually is pretty mainstream and instead acts like the mainstream is a bunch of leftists.
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