Source please.
No, if he used that word about anybody in 2000, it was McCain. He didn't blast Bush in that race.
This is a longstanding debate between the Anti-Keyesians and the pro-Keyesians. Sinkspur is referencing the 2001 (CPAC?) convention in Dallas (which I attended). There is a transcript floating around here somewhere if you perform a search. Keyes pointed out that Bush made a wrong decision on the ESCR issue, and warned against the evil that you don't see. It is a greater threat than the evil that you do see, because at least if you see it, you can oppose it. Keyes never called Bush evil. Sinkspur will tell you differently. However, I can attest that about 80% of the people who watched that speech were on their feet, applauding at just about every one of Keyes' points, including the one he made about the need to stand against evil in all its forms.
DFW Hyatt, August 23, 2001, at some Republican function, which was attended by Jim Robinson, Ms. AntiFeminazi, and LurkerNoMore! and several other Freepers.
I'm not going to search for the transcript, but you can e-mail any one of the three above to confirm that Keyes did, indeed, call Bush "evil."
Dr. Alan Keyes is speaking... ...a person would come to me and say, "Well, you've got to acknowledge that we've got to get rid of Bill Clinton, that's the worse evil possible," and I tried to explain to them, no, the evil that you know, the evil that you recognize, the evil that inspires you to fight against it, that's not the worse evil you can face. The worst evil you can face is the insidious evil that creeps behind your lines, that demoralizes your leadership, that confuses your commitment and your understanding and that, in the end, defeats you, not because your enemy overwhelms you but because in your confusion, your doubt, and your lack of commitment to those things, you overwhelm yourself.
And I'm watching it happen right now. I watched the run-up to the stem cell research decision on the part of President Bush. Now, part of me was impatient with the whole process that we were going through because I watched the media hyping the "judicious" and "agonizing" decision that he was making, and I've got to tell you, there are times when somebody comes to me and says, "Oh, I'm agonizing over this decision," and the very fact that their agonizing tells me they don't understand the decision.
See, my problem is that I sit in front of a decision like that and I say this is a decision where somebody sat down to figure out how much evil they could get away with.
Note that Keyes goes to great lengths to attribute the word evil to George Bush but doesn't have the guts to apply it directly so in a very, very narrow sense, Keyes didn't directly call President Bush 'evil', but his meaning was implicit; George W. Bush is evil..........JIM SCOTT