Posted on 09/15/2007 4:08:21 AM PDT by Man50D
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – After two previous runs for U.S. president, former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes has announced he's again seeking the White House in the 2008 election, and he'll take part in Monday night's Republican presidential debate here.
Keyes told syndicated radio host Janet Parshall he's "unmoved" by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, among whom he sees no standout who articulates the "key kernel of truth that must, with courage, be presented to our people."
He added, "The one thing I've always been called to do is to raise the standard ... of our allegiance to God and His authority that has been the foundation stone of our nation's life" – and he decried the lack of "forthright, clear, and clarion declaration" from the current crop of presidential contenders.
As a result, Keyes said, "We're putting together an effort that's not going to be like anything before, because it's going to be entirely based on citizen action. We're going to be challenging people to take a pledge for America's revival," and elevate them from spectators in the political arena to participants.
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Alan is correct: if you live under my roof, you live by my rules. Children that don't, "inherit the wind". Rightly so.
I know he can’t win, however he will out debate ANYONE who is up there. He has Very strong conservative principles and can articulate them very well.
Keyes to run for Republican nomination on a ‘reparations for desecendants of slaves’ platform.
Sorry Alan, you lost touch with conservatism in that botched Senate run.
Give him credit, he ran for senator at the request of the party. He exposed Obama and educated a lot of people in the process and conducted himself well.
But a state that elects and supports the likes of Durbin and Obama has an education deficiency, and Alan did what he could to correct that. And that's good, much better than sitting the election out.
Why does he constantly want to make a fool of himself? Me must have some sort of complex. Shouldn’t someone take him aside? A friend or something and tell him...HE SUCKS!!!!
Who?
The name rings a bell but I’m drawing a blank.
He is the guy who gets in every race and LOSES!!!!
ALan Keyes is like Newt. He says some real smart things, but overall, is an idiot.
Didn’t Keyes also reject his daughter for being a lesbian? So much for love the sinner, hate the sin.
He did. Says his daughter is dead. I could not imagine doing that to my three sons no matter what their behavior is. He must be something else. He probably put a lot of pressure on his kids.
A lot of you people need to grow up, attacking a great conservative voice like Alan Keyes.
If you like another candidate, then go on and promote that candidate to your heart’s content, instead of mindless, backstabbing bickering.
With all the angry divisiveness going on around here, I don’t think we can ever come together to back the eventual nominee and defeat Hitlary Clinton.
Kicking them out is fine. Telling your daughter that you are dead to me is a much different situation.
Of course, Dr. Demento is an all-purpose toothache.
Yes we can. When Duncan is the candidate everyone will come together. Lighten up. Everyone is just stating facts. Is there anything in the long list of FREEPER posts that is not true????
I supported the eminently unelectable Ambassador Keyes in the Republican primary against George W. Bush. I won’t be making that mistake again.
But I’m sure he is worthy of a cabinet-level post in a Thompson Administrarion.
The qwarion now is, what does his announcement do to the already dismal prospects of cellar dwellers Hunter, Tancredo and Brownback?
And that's good!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Abe would never get nominated today and a good thing too! He did enough damage in a month more than one term. McGovern is most like Lincoln. Reagan was most like Andrew Jackson. The roles of the parties have been reversed.
The guy can debate well but he doesn’t come across as a serious candidate.
I guess this means he's rejoined the Republican party after leaving it, though.
....thanks in large part to the circus created by the IL-GOP and lack of leadership. Many of us still blame Judy Barr-Topinka for the circus that gave us the *ss-clown Barry Obama. The vector for this disease was the Ilinois GOP itself.
Interesting observation. Maya Keyes was an adult when she was ‘kicked out’ from her parent’s home, into an apartment funded by Keyes' political organizations in Chicago. Also, she marched in the protest against GWB inauguration in 2005, so I imagine that there was not only lesbian issue type of confrontation inside the family but ideological, too. In her own words: “I actually voted for Nader in this past election,” …“I’m really an anarchist, but I felt this was an election that needed to be voted in.” When an adult child goes so much against the parents/family values/ideology, first they should be able to stand on their own feet financially. Parents are not obligated to keep adult children without a job in their house, or to finance their college. Mostly, when we are talking about a child who is in a total confrontation with the parents. This is just an observation.
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