Posted on 04/14/2008 10:11:41 PM PDT by TBP
Since when does a real conservative support slave reparations?
Keyes is an opportunist instead of a conservative.
“Stand your ground, you’re killing me, Pop.”
“The idea that the only way to win is to concede defeat at the very outset, by backing a candidate who doesn’t stand for conservative principle in the first place”
How I hate that philosophy. Repubs used it to beat conservatives up in the ‘96 election when Dole ran. Now these people are doing again with McPain. I called John Hagee ministries because I enjoy the man’s message and told the customer service rep what I really thought of McPain. Today I got an email espousing the same philosophy. Hagee’s supporting McPain because it’s the only way to win. Yeow!
I won’t be voting for any of the three socialists who might win the nominations of their respective parties. Whether or not I’ll vote for Keyes is something I’ll have to think about.
I, too, however, am finished with the Republican party.
To achieve victory, first you must seek it.
How does putting country-club, Rockefeller Republicans in ofice win us anything?
Keyes is not, nor has he ever been for slave reparations. You are misinformed.
RINO? Keyes left the GOP. Keyes ran such a horrible race that he made Barack Obama a big star. He ran twice for president and lost badly. He lost his race for senate in Maryland. People aren't buying what Keyes is selling. The idea that the only way to win is to concede defeat at the very outset, by backing a candidate who doesn’t stand for conservative principle in the first place, has itself come to fruition in the presumptive nomination of John McCain as the Republican candidate for 2008. Is this not, in and of itself, enough to convince us at last of the wrong-headedness of this approach?
John McCain has his faults, but when it was time to walk the walk on pork barrel spending, he did. When it was time to confirm Supreme Court justices, he voted for Roberts and Alito. On guns he's not where I'd be, but he did vote against the so called assault weapons ban on multiple occasions. He voted to end frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers. Obama and Hillary both oppose Roberts and Alito. In January 09, most Supreme Court justices will be in their 70's. The next president will appoint probably 2, maybe four justices.
we conservatives are being pressured to “save the White House for Republicans” by facilitating the socialist mentality.
Socialists increase government spending. McCain doesn't do that.
Why then can we not see that it is up to the politician to earn the conservative vote, and not up to the conservatives to put into office a politician who has chronically failed them?
That's why we have primaries. I voted for the conservative candidate in the primary. His name is Ron Paul.
The once-great Republican party has, in nominating John McCain, crossed the line from viable to suicidal, and many well-intentioned Americans know it.
Suicidal? Look, the GOP survived Grant, Taft, and even Hoover. It survived Nixon. It survived Bush I and will even survive the current democrat-lite guy that is currently in office.
That is why they are saying they will not vote for him, even at the cost of not voting at all. Yet to allow the RINOs to effectively disenfranchise us is not acceptable, either. So, where do we go from here?
Keyes left the GOP, so what's he doing complaining about RINOs?
We the people have no choice in this election. As soon as Alan Keyes makes it formal and runs on a third party ticket, I will be joining that party with him. True patriots have no choice.
I have a choice. No thanks to Keyes. Someone who got 27% against Obama already isn't going to get my support.
Dr. Keyes has frequently noted that he is running for President because principled conservatives are being offered no way of participating in politics in this country without violating their own beliefs. That's crap. I participate in politics. I paid my dues walking precincts, stuffing envelops, and running for delegate, winning every time I've run. That's not changing anytime soon with McCain running.
As Americans and as believers, we recognize that there are things that lie beyond the reach of our own decisions.
Not really.
Among them are the fact that the lesser of two evils is still evil, and that if John McCain fails to be inaugurated next January, he and the Republican leadership will not need to look beyond the frames of their own mirrors in determining exactly who is to blame.
Hell, McCain's probably an improvement over the current guy, at least with some issues.
2004 Senate, Illinois.
Obama - 3,597,456 - 70%
Keyes - 1,390,690 - 27%
Same year, Illinois:
Kerry - 2,891,550 - 55%
Bush - 2,345,946 - 44%
2002 - A sacrificial lamb year for Illinois Senate
Durbin - 2,080,411 60%
Durkin - 1,320,621 38%
Keyes ran 17% behind Bush in one of his weakest states. So many people who voted for Bush voted for Obama against Keyes. He ran 11% behind Durkin in another democrat year in Illinois, 2002. Durkin was a sacrificial lamb and got what should be a bare minimum in Illinois. That's not counting the fact that Keyes has run numerous times for president in the past and went nowhere each time.
I'll go so far to say that I blame two people more than anything else for making Obama into a media star. One is Jack Ryan for screwing up and letting Jeri Ryan get away (dropping out of the race), and the other is Alan Keyes for carpetbagging and running a complete Charlie Foxtrot of a campaign.
Keyes needs to back out of running and go back to the speaker's circuit where he does best. He gave us Senator Obama. I don't need him to give us President Obama.
It wasn’t enough for Keyes to carpetbag Illinios, now he’s going to carpetbag the Constitution Party.
I’m sure the grass (greenbacks) will be greener for him there and I say don’t let the door...
2004 Senate, Illinois.
Obama - 3,597,456 - 70%
Keyes - 1,390,690 - 27%
Guess Illinois just wasn’t ready for a black Senator.
“You only waste your vote when you vote for that in which yo do not believe.”
You never get everything you want in politics, I’m at about 70% with McCain which is higher than I was with Bush.
“Why waste your vote when there is a real conservative alternative?”
So your solution to “not waste your vote” is to vote for a man who cannot get elected?
This is the insanity of 3rd Party self immolation. But don’t worry about Keyes and his organizations, I’m sure they will do “very well” with a smaller yet more focused audience.
Great article.
Alan Keyes is light years better than the three Democrats that are still running.
Alan Keyes/America’s Revival/CP PING!
i hate how the "third party" option only comes up when it's too late to really do anything... run the third party immediately--when the other two parties begin... make it a real party, not just a last-minute thought... the GOP nominees right from the start left us begging for an alternative... now it really is too late... we need to start now for next time... it won't work this time...
5th time's the charm for the Keyester??? He's the 2000's version of Pat Buchanan making a living off of running for office.
I wonder when Alan's next book is coming out....
Gee. That's funny... He's a -30% for me, and tat's being kind.
So your solution to “not waste your vote” is to vote for a man who cannot get elected?
No, my idea of wasting my vote is using it to put a traitorous bastard at the head of the Republican party with the dishonorable leadership thereof continuing their Globalist dreams ever onward.
Keyes is a genuine Reagan Republican, and a Conservative of the highest order. That is worth voting for.
Why? It's almost seven months until the General Election.
Then vote for him, nobody cares.
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