Here is a link to an article by Dr. Edwin Vieira, who has four degrees from Harvard.....(Not from BS-U. like some folks here seem to have.)
In it he explains the consequences of not having a qualified person in office. How it will deminish our country.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin84.htm
I want to commend your link to the article by Viera. He is very good and when I did another case for a renegade conservative Democrat after Al Hopfmann’s he gave good advice. It was a case about a conservative Hungarian-American from New Jersey, staunchly anti-communist who wanted to be on the ballot for a House seat and was kept off by party bosses.
But note that he is criticizing the way that courts routinely hide behind “lack of standing” and overuse as it is being applied here. What I am pointing out is that individuals like Alan Keyes have standing even as the concept is being applied because minor party candidates today are in a position comparable to that of the Republican Party when it arose and displaced the Whigs because the Whigs equivocated on slavery.