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Will Alan Keyes Bolt The GOP? (possible Constitution Party run)
Radar Online (New York) ^ | March 7, 2008 | Nick Curran

Posted on 03/07/2008 11:58:49 PM PST by Kurt Evans

Presidential candidate Alan Keyes may be leaving the GOP. In a conference call last night, Keyes is said to have told supporters that staying in the Republican Party would be "an occasion of sin" and he's ready to bolt. Keyes ... reportedly wants no part in selecting the "type of deodorant we need to make a stinking candidate acceptable to conservatives." A Keyes supporter confirms to Radar that the former Reagan administration official "stated in the conference call that he could no longer remain in the Republican Party."

As for what's next, a third party bid seems like a good bet. Keyes hinted at the possibility on a radio program in January, and an e-mail sent out by the campaign after last night's conference call ... included a link for supporters who "want to vote for Alan as your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice on the Constitution Party presidential poll." A Keyes message board commenter who claims to have been on the conference call last night said regarding the possibility of a Constitution Party run that, "Alan asked us to pray about it." ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; alankeyes; alternative; backlash; conservatism; constitutionparty; founders; foundingfathers; gop; illinois; johnmccain; keyes; minorparties; nobama; obamasama; osamabama; prophetjeremiah; revolt; screwmccain; spoiler; thirdparty; truechoice
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To: Soliton

[There was no need for Keyes to go there. He was an oportunistic carpetbagger who’s ego got the better of him.]

Of McCain I would say, he is an oppurtunistic liberal carpet bagger whos ego and temper tantrums and hatred of ritht wing Christian conservatives get the better of him.


141 posted on 03/08/2008 7:26:34 AM PST by kindred (He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.)
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To: EternalVigilance
>>>>>"If you don't see the choice, be the choice." - Alan Keyes

Same old Keyes, same old EV.

142 posted on 03/08/2008 7:28:38 AM PST by Reagan Man (McCain Wants My Conservative Vote --- EARN IT or NO DEAL !!!)
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To: 1rudeboy
Keyes didn't kill the Republican Party in Illinois, he just encased it in a stainless-steel alloy and buried it 1000ft under the ground in an unused salt mine.

Seems to me that if the Illinois Republicanss had to go that far afield for a Senatorial candidate, they were pretty moribund to begin with.

143 posted on 03/08/2008 7:29:58 AM PST by slowhandluke (It's hard work to be cynical enough in this age)
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To: slowhandluke

Yup.


144 posted on 03/08/2008 7:30:30 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: fatima
"I respect Keyes and support him.I can’t say what I want to post.I left the pubs 2 days ago."

No, no, no!

Now is not the time to leave the pubs.

.

Now is the time to drink, drink, drink. Sköl!

145 posted on 03/08/2008 7:35:55 AM PST by NicknamedBob (Tired of the hype about Hope? ... Just wait. When Obama is elected, all "hope" will be gone.)
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To: fatima

—PS,My vote is for sale.I want a hi-def flat screen TV.—

Me too! I also want a blu-ray DVD player I can hook up to it, so dig in, fellas! </joke>

Seriously, you have a beautiful family. And I take it you pronounce your name FAH-tima (like the Lady) and not Fah-TEE-ma (like the “prophet’s” daughter). The latter pronunciation might not go over so well here! </joke no. 2>


146 posted on 03/08/2008 7:43:39 AM PST by paleorite ("Oy vey, Skippa-San" The immortal words of Fuji, formerly America's favorite POW.)
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To: Kurt Evans

Keyes is wholly unsuitable, not due to his politics (of which I approve strongly), nor due to his rhetorical skills (amazing), but due to his record of getting people worked up and leading them absolutely nowhere.


147 posted on 03/08/2008 7:43:52 AM PST by Content Provider
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To: Kurt Evans
Oh, please, let him do this!

It would make him more irrelevant than he already is.

148 posted on 03/08/2008 7:43:53 AM PST by Amelia (Cynicism ON)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Keyes would mop the floor with McCain

Hardly.... I can't imagine any conservatives voting or someone that calls for tax exemptions for "slave" decedents. Keys is just another social liberal that is against equality... he makes McCrazy look conservative these days...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5747800/
149 posted on 03/08/2008 7:44:56 AM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: slowhandluke

—Seems to me that if the Illinois Republicanss had to go that far afield for a Senatorial candidate, they were pretty moribund to begin with.—

I hear that! Talk about being out of ammo.


150 posted on 03/08/2008 7:46:22 AM PST by paleorite ("Oy vey, Skippa-San" The immortal words of Fuji, formerly America's favorite POW.)
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To: EternalVigilance

He’s right.
Unfortunately, people don’t want to hear it, and he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected.
People won’t put up with being “educated” with what is happening or has happened.
Too long. They don’t have the patience.
Give’em soundbites.
The masses want bread and circuses.
They’ll elect someone who will promise them that.


151 posted on 03/08/2008 7:46:50 AM PST by XR7
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To: slowhandluke

—And which of these do you think McCain won’t support, if it makes Kennedy and Liebermann invite him over for dinner, and the NYT shower him with praise?—

To paraphase one of our most overrated Presidents, Harry (I’ll fire McArthur, so Americans can die for a tie) Truman:

“If you run a democrat against a democrat, people will vote for the democrat every time.”


152 posted on 03/08/2008 7:49:53 AM PST by paleorite ("Oy vey, Skippa-San" The immortal words of Fuji, formerly America's favorite POW.)
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To: CindyDawg
You know, the ones that aren’t afraid to vote their conscience because , they believe the Lord has a plan and will put who he wants in office.

And the Lord may just let the people suffer under whomever they elect.
He may say, you have done this to yourselves.
Read the book of Kings.

153 posted on 03/08/2008 7:50:56 AM PST by XR7
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To: XR7

I agree. Pray that we get a leader we need and not one that we deserve.


154 posted on 03/08/2008 7:57:34 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: XR7

and free stuff. What’s in it for me?


155 posted on 03/08/2008 7:58:38 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Gondring
When I look at Alan Keyes’ past, it’s hard to reconcile with the conservative rhetoric he uses.

You have my vote for the most diplomatic description of a scoundrel.

156 posted on 03/08/2008 8:05:52 AM PST by NautiNurse (Plants are people too)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Alan Keyes supported reparations in his Senate run against Barak Obama. I totally reject such welfare-state thinking.

However, it appears to be one of Keyes few policy miscues. In most areas, we agree. I trust he will dissuade the CP from its Defense-light view of protecting our country. They’ve got to eventually acknowledge that the Constitution allows for military action less than all-out war.


157 posted on 03/08/2008 8:10:07 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: Kurt Evans

That might tempt me to vote GOP once more...but it ould take more than just Keyes...I respect him, not McCain.


158 posted on 03/08/2008 8:10:23 AM PST by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: Krankor

Just plain stupid.


159 posted on 03/08/2008 8:16:23 AM PST by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: Chunga; CounterCounterCulture
>Your phony “freedom vote” will give us Jamie Gorelick on the Supreme Court,

McCain voted YES to nominate Ginsburg.
I doubt that he would fail to “reach across the aisle.”

>the abolition of The Electoral College,

Sorry, the president - or the Congress - cannot change the Constitution the last I looked.

>a return to treating terrorism as a police matter,

McCain has called for the closing of GITMO and giving those detained there access to our judicial system.
But I see your point and it is valid.

> the highest taxes the country will have ever seen

McCain voted AGAINST the Bush tax cuts. Twice.
Of course he now is in favor of them.

>legalized partial-birth abortion on demand.
Socialized Medicine,

I see your point about socialized medicine but abortion is currently mostly a matter for the courts, not the executive branch.

Now I'm not supporting Keyes or any 3rd party.
Far from it, but McCain is fatally flawed as far as my vote is concerned.
Not that what I do is going to make much difference, and you do raise interesting points. - Thank you - bill.

160 posted on 03/08/2008 8:16:34 AM PST by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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