If you can cite a link to a story wherein Alan Keyes filed as a third party candidate for President in 2000, I will give $100 to Free Republic. If you cannot, please apologize to the Ambassador. I notice you did not name any other of the President's primary campaign opponents as 'third-party' candidates.
"you supported one of the numerous third party candidates in 2000. Like . . .Keyes" - Reagan ManNot unless you count the GOP as a "third party...""If you can cite a link to a story wherein Alan Keyes filed as a third party candidate for President in 2000, I will give $100 to Free Republic. If you cannot, please apologize to the Ambassador. I notice you did not name any other of the President's primary campaign opponents as 'third-party' candidates." - Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Ambassador Alan Keyes Files Presidential Exploratory Committeeand
News/Current Events Announcement Keywords: ALAN KEYES
Source: Keyes 2000
Published: June 17, 1999 Author: Becky Fenger
Posted on 06/21/1999 03:38:56 PDT by planomikePRESS RELEASE
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Thursday, June 17, 1999
Ambassador Alan Keyes Files Presidential Exploratory Committee
(Washington, D.C.) Thursday, June 17, 1999 - Ambassador Alan Keyes, conservative commentator and host of "The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake-Up Call", has officially formed an exploratory committee for seeking the Republican Party nomination in the presidential election of 2000.
White House Hopeful Keyes Files With FEC
Politics/Elections News
Source: Reuters
Published: 6/17/99
Posted on 06/18/1999 14:27:03 PDT by Keyes For PresidentThursday June 17 2:24 PM ET White House Hopeful Keyes Files With FEC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Alan Keyes, a former U.S. ambassador turned syndicated radio talk show host, formally moved Thursday toward a second White House bid.
Keyes, 49, filed papers with the Federal Election Commission establishing a presidential exploratory committee and fund-raising apparatus, said spokeswoman Becky Fenger.
Keyes has been campaigning for the party's 2000 Republican nomination for months, but wasn't ready to file with the FEC until Thursday.
``We just got down to it,'' Fenger said.
Since Keyes was previously ``testing waters'' for a presidential campaign, he was not required to disclose contributions.
Now that he filed with the FEC, he must disclose all the money he has raised toward his 2000 presidential run, which Fenger said would be about $1.6 million by the end of June.
Since 1994, Keyes has hosted a nationally syndicated radio talk show, ``The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake-up Call.''
He previously ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996, and twice for the Republican nomination for the Senate from Maryland, in 1988 and 1992.
During the Reagan administration, he served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and later as an assistant secretary of state.
Technically, you're correct. But for all intents and purposes, Alan Keyes presidential bid in 2000 was viewed by most republicans and conservatives, as a third party effort. Keyes' unwillingness to relinquish his campaign, after he was soundly defeated, showed him to be a bitter and angry candidate. All of the President's challengers in 2000, pulled out and allowed George W.Bush to have an open field. Even John McCain placed the party interests before his personal ambitions. No apology is necessary on my part. I do think, Keyes still owes President Bush an apology, for acting like a spoiled brat, during the primaries and just prior to, the general elction.