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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I thought that was Ron Pauls job?
Yeah, who is Cox?
So standing firmly on pro-life principles makes one a "demagogue"? Thanks for revealing your true colors.
Congrats for getting Keyes in the race. Ignore the critics and do your best. Unlike, Democrats and Communists, etc., I love competition on the Republican side of the ledger. It makes the party better and I think Keyes can do that.
LOL! bttt
Actually, Paul's technically right. It's not constitutional to fight an undeclared war.
But I don't see where it's specified just what teh language of a formal declaration must be, do you?
Wasn’t his name being floated as a possible Constitution Party candidate?
Alan made a comment that homnosexuality was immoral and hedonistic. The reporters brought Mary Cheney into it, asking him directly if his comments applied to her. He said yes, by definition.
One can agree or disagree with his comments, but he did NOT attack Mary Cheney. He simply answered a question.
Debatable.
If that is the case then we're in worse shape than I previously thought.
I have always been a great admirer of Dr. Keyes, but enough is enough. God Bless him!
Alan Keyes would never try to ram amnesty for illegals down our throats.
Alan Keyes would never agree to let Islamists run our port inspections.
Alan Keyes’s Supreme Court nominations would be more like Thomas and Scalia nd less liek Harriet Miers.
Alan Keyes would never approve an 8.2 percent annual increase in the rate of domestic discretionary spending.
Alan Keyes is a genuine pro-lifer. He would be a genuine tax cutter. He would cut spending.
and his record at State shows that he is tough on enemies of this country.
Sounds like a great candidate to me.
Same seat, BTW. It went from Kenneth Keating (RINO) to RFK to appointed Chuck Goodell (RINO-Liberal Party) (yes, the daddy of the NFL commish and father-in-law of Fox News babe Jane Skinner), to "the sainted junior Senator from the state of New York", my Senator, on whose campaign I am proud to have worked, Jim Buckley, to Moynihan to Hitlery. And that's just in my memory.
The very idea of Hitlery sitting in Jim Buckley's Senate seat is enough to pee off any good conservative.
What makes oyu think Keyes is getting Federal matching funds?
As Dr. Walter E. Williams has pointed out, secession is the ultimate mechanism for enforcing the Constitution's limittations on Federal power. If you take away teh right to secede, then the states have lost their ultimate weapon and the Federal government can de facto do anything it wants with NO limits.
There is nothing conservative, constitutionalist, or pro-freedom about that.
Suspended habeas corpus, arrested and deported a member of the U.S. Congress form Ohio for criticizing his war policy (President Davis sent him back), and undertook other actions that trampled all over the Constitutional limitations on government. Lincoln was the first Big Government President. He paved the way for Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Klintoon, etc.
No, not really.
So standing firmly on pro-life principles makes one a "demagogue"?No, but fanatic concentration on a single issue to the neglect of all others does.
It is not necessary for me to take an emotional position.
Thanks for revealing your true colors
The 10th Amendment does not give any right for States to secede.
Even Madison knew that and called such a view nonsense.
Lincoln, in order to invade eleven Confederate states that had quite legally seceded from the Union, also violated the Fifth Amendment by depriving slaveholders of property without due process of law via the Emancipation Proclamation (I don't favor slavery but Lincoln had no constitutional justification), initiated the bloodiest war in American history for ilegal purposes, sent Sherman to lay waste to persons and property throughout much of the South, initiated an utterly unconstitutional military draft, and an utterly unconstitutional (as SCOTUS later found) personal income tax, subjected NYC to naval bombardment during the draft riots, and smashed the presses and jailed the editors of newspapers in the North opposed to his war.
This is not the thread to debate the Civil War and Lincoln's actions in it.
I will just say that Lincoln had every right to raise an army to put down a revolt (as Washington did), that much of the actions he took as President were due to the temporaly conditions of the war, no different then Jeff Davis did in his role as the Confederate President.
The South had no constitutional right to leave the Union since none of their constitutional rights were threatened by Lincoln's election.
They only attempted to leave because they felt that in the long run slavery was going to be ended by restricting its growth and spread.
The myth that the South was fighting for its 'constitutional liberty' was started after the war to put the South in a better historical light.
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