This isn’t the Alan Keyes I supported a few years ago.
Is their still an Alan Keyes fan club on FR???
I’m not a Palin fan, but Keyes is a 5 star wacko. Keyes and his buffoonish Senate campaign were the driving force behind Obama’s rise to national prominence. Relieved by Keyes’ bizarre behavior of the need to campaign at all in his own state, Obama hit the road, speaking at campaign fundraisers for other Democrat candidates all over the country, and made himself into a national figure in the process. Ironically though, I think a lot of the adoring Palinbots currently peppering FR with Palin-worshipful posts, are the same ones who were peppering FR with Keyes-worshipful posts back during that Senate campaign.
Where has Alan been??? He really has been off the radar screen. I guess he is is low on funds and needs to get on the national scene somehow and this is the way to do it.
Get ready, you will see him on MSNBC or CNN soon.
I’m not at all surprised that Keyes would do this.
I like Alan, he follows his own drummer but he is consistant... He tells it like he see it and perhaps folks don’t care for that, but that is Alan.
Alan Keyes is a windbag, and an idiot to boot.
He ran against Obama for that Senate seat in Illinois, and lost 80%-20%.
Keyes turned on us years ago. It’s all over but the shouting.
By the way, thanks for the link to America’s Independent Party.
It was started by FReepers, myself included, only a few short months ago, and is already the third-largest political party in the country, based on voter registration.
The Vice-President’s offices, even if that VP has the stomach for fighting their own CiC, which is by no means certain, are not a sufficient counterweight to John McCain’s obviously liberal policies. Not even close. And the Republican Party can no longer be relied upon to pursue policies that forward the conservative agenda.
I request that you remove the “barf alert” from this headline. There’s nothing in Dr. Keyes’ piece that is out of line with FR’s mission statement at all.
I’ve requested that your “barf alert” be removed from the headline. This is the premiere independent conservative site on the web, not a cover-for-Republicans-at-all-cost one.
I’ve requested that your ‘barf alert’ in the headline be amplified appropriately.
Don’t hide that light under a bushel!
BASHING Palin? His critical position is entirely correct, not only from a Christian point of view, but from a libertarian, and Constitutional point of view as well.
If this information is confirmed (which it undoubtedly will be) regarding Palin's compromise on homosexual rights, it is a huge black mark that socon conservatives will not overlook. Her explanation thereof had best be forthcoming.
As to Dr. Keyes "turning on Conservatives", I find that to be a ludicrous assertion. Dr. Keyes position has not changed one bit in the ten years that I have followed his career.
If anything, it is those who claim to be conservatives who have turned on him, in their mad rush to "run to their prophets with itching ears".
That seals the deal for me. If Keyes is against it, I’m all for it.
I hate to see the Right cannibalize it’s own. So tacky/innappropriate for him to do it now! Left is doing such a great job attacking Palin, no need for any Republicans to pile on!
This is harsh & many may disagree, but in my opinion, it is really too bad Keyes did not do some soul searching looking in the mirror before his terribly unsuccessful attempt to convince people in Illinois that he was a bonafide Illinoisan thereby allowing Obama to win Illinois Senate in first place. How long did he live in Illinois prior to announcing?
Sad, I really used to have respect for him before he came to Illlinois.
Alan the boys of the GOP have failed. Now she gets a turn.
Keyes ‘08: God, I Thank You That I Am Not As Other Men.