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?
Of course Obama is unqualified to hold the Presidency. That fact doesn't affect my argument against Keyes. For Keyes to believe he should be President despite never demonstrating any talent in governing is like someone graduating from medical school and immediately saying he's qualified to perform heart transplants. You first have to show you can take out a few appendices and gall bladders without cutting something you shouldn't cut.
Now, I agree with Keyes on most issues. However, let him win a few lower offices first and show he can actually turn his ideas into actions. Let him put together a working staff, pass some legislation, rally public opinion against entrenched interests, etc. If he can do that than I'd take him seriously.
And don't get me started on Michael Steele. He's the Peter Principle in action.