Gentleman kindly describe the declensions which lead you to observe that Alan Keyes is way off the deep end and unworthy of respect. A man who should stay away from politics.The fact that he thought he should be President despite never demonstrating any administrative ability. He never rallied popular support for a position, never put together a staff, never drafted legislation and then showed he could get it approved by a legislature, never demonstrated any of the many talents a President requires. If he had been a mayor of somewhere, governor of somewhere, an effective member of Congress, then I'd maybe consider him. But he's never held any political office by which to judge his talents. There's much, much more to governing than giving good speeches or having the right opinions or having an inflated ego.
You have just presented an almost perfect description of Barak Obama before his election as president. This is not to say that Obama's lack of qualifications means that Keyes, who is himself otherwise unqualified, becomes qualified. It means that Alan Keyes should not be admitted to the Oval Office. But it does not mean that he should be shunned from politics.
Here is the question for my reply which you set out in italics and undertook to answer :
Gentleman kindly describe the declensions which lead you to observe that Alan Keyes is way off the deep end and unworthy of respect. A man who should stay away from politics.
With respect, I don't think you have begun to explain why Alan Keyes is "unworthy of respect " or "off the deep end " or why he should, "stay away from politics."
It is one thing for Keyes with his talents as an orator to get himself elected as a black mayor of a black town on the Democrat ticket. It is quite another for him to absorb the arrows and slings on the Republican side and prevail. I say again, if Obama had been running on the Republican ticket for Senator of Illinois, and Keyes have been running on the Democrat ticket, who would have prevailed? Does Michael Steele's election loss in Maryland-where Alan Keyes also lost-qualify steel to run an entire national political party? Why do we apply a different test to Keyes and we do to Michael Steele?
Michael Steele gets to run the whole of the national party and Alan Keyes should not speak out?
