Posted on 09/17/2007 11:54:58 AM PDT by Borges
Alan Keyes, a Republican whose two previous runs for president ended in failure, is making a third try for the White House.
The Maryland conservative announced on his Web site that he filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Friday to make his candidacy official. He joins a crowded Republican field of nine candidates and is scheduled to participate Monday night at a debate involving lesser-known candidates in Florida.
Keyes, a former State Department official under President Reagan, made unsuccessful presidential runs in 1996 and 2000. He also has been a Senate candidate from Maryland, and, in 2004, he suffered a 43-percentage point loss to Democrat Barack Obama in the Senate race in Illinois. Republicans drafted Keyes after primary winner Jack Ryan dropped out amid a scandal.
In an interview with radio talk show host Janet Parshall, Keyes noted the wide-open nature of the GOP race. "There isn't a standout," Keyes said. "I'm like a lot of folks, who have just looked at it and been unmoved."
All the conservatism in the world doesn't mean anything if you can't put it to work by not getting elected.
The 3 RINOs you cite have been elected to office, BTW. Keyes has never been elected to any public office, he's lost 2 Senate races and 2 presidential campaigns. He's a joke with thousands of dollars in debt. If he hadn't been a U.N. Ambassador he'd be a nobody.
Hello there are already 4 true conservatives in the race, and they've all held elected office. Get back to me when Keyes gets elected to something higher than town board supervisor.
“All the conservatism in the world doesn’t mean anything if you can’t put it to work by not getting elected.”
That is the mentality that has given us the Arlen Specters of the GOP. Thanks but no thanks.
This reminds of the Simpson’s episode where Bart keeps reaching for the cupcake and he gets shocked every time.
He is a highly inept campaigner with absolutely no political skills.
Keys doesn’t have the stuff to be competative, and the money also is lacking from that as well.
Outside of that I like him and he is a nice person.
I emphatically concur. He's likely not to win the nomination, but he'll have an impact on the "discussion" among Republican nominees. And that's a good thing.
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