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Alan Keyes was/is a birther. His support among the conservative base is probably roughly equivalent to that of Steele...meaning not much. If Steele would have pushed birtherism, he would have been run out of the party before the end of his chairmanship term.

We’ll never know since the operative word in your post is “if.”
To compare Alan Keyes’ support as a minor party candidate operating outside the resources of the national Republican Party and only being on the ballot in 3 states to the support that Steele would have had from within the Republican Party with tens of millions of dollars of resources behind him, just doesn’t seem that equal to me.

Keyes was the Republican Party Senate nominee against Obama in 2004. He also ran in the Republican Party presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000. It wasn't until around 2007 that he was uninvited to the party.

And Steele was already having fundraising problems. As a vote of “no-confidence” of his leadership, donors were bypassing the RNC and sending money directly to candidates, or to the Rove and/or Dick Morris fundraising groups.

Just my opinion, but I believe had Steele, as the head of the RNC, decided to embrace birtherism, he would have been forced to resign in less than 24 hours.