Isn't it a little hypocritical for you to bash Keyes on a personal level, on the basis that you think he bashes Bush? Don't you see the irony here?
I assert that Keyes' criticisms of the President are limited to policy. They ALWAYS are. Remember the "Keyes said Bush is evil" speech that seemed to start all this mess last August? Have you ever actually read the speech? It's not an attack on Bush! It's a commentary--with quite a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor in it, that was apparently lost on some in this forum, I might add--on the contradictions of Bush's stem cell research policy. Policy. We are allowed to disagree with the President of the United States on his choices that affect our nation, aren’t we?
Let me offer you this challenge: if Keyes is the personal attacker that you seem to believe he is, prove it. Show one time he criticized the President for something other than policy; one time he got personal, rather than critiquing the Bush Administration. I'm easily convinced, when the undeniable facts are laid in front of me. If I've missed something, show me.
If you want to consider your jokes political parodies, you have to be able to defend it on some basis in reality. Political parodies are exaggerated truths, but they are also social commentaries meant to poke fun at something in society that needs to be changed. You must be making a social statement. Could you be more clear about it? Are you pro-abortion?
I really don't know how you're missing my obvious, bite-you-on-the-nose point, but here it is ONE MORE TIME: Keyes acts in a manner that shows him to be a full-of-himself, implacable, unpleasable purist who CANNOT form coalitions because ANYONE who is not in 101% agreement with him MUST be criticized at GREAT LENGTH and with FIERCE PASSION. (His stupid, stupid, stupid criticism of Bush's confession of faith — which you recalled — is a perfect example.) The effect he has on those most devoted to him (observable in this thread, as in all Keyes threads) is that they become Keyes Kultists. NOBODY is pure enough for them, NO compromise is really acceptable, NOTHING that varies from their Prophet's dicta can be acceptable. And variances are NEVER honest differences of opinion -- they are heresies! (Witness Keyes and Krew's total botching and almost slanderous misrepresentation of Bush on the "stem cell research" issue, to which I devoted a lengthy essay [where were you??].)
And so, proving my point, if any Keyester comments on this posting, it will be ponderous and humorless and painfully detailed (I've touched The Lord's Anointed, after all). No Keyester can say, "You know, you have a point. The guy has great points, but ruins his own case by being way too full of himself and Unable To Play Well With Others" -- any more than a Christian can say that Christ takes Himself too seriously. The difference being, of course, that Christ really is God.
Dan