Alan Keyes comes out in support of President Bush, denounces Democrats, "our survival is at stake!"

Transcript of Hannity & Colmes ^ | Feb 4, 2004 | Alan Keyes

[hellinahandcart]

Thanks EV.

[proud American in Canada]

"If we allow the Democrats to retake the White House, we allow them to surrender the war on terror. Our very survival as a nation depends on this fight. George W Bush has proven that he will not shirk his duty as commander-in-chief."

bump... thanks for a great post.

[mathluv]

Thanks! When I saw it in my comments box, I started to post it to you, ... then I realized you were posting to me.

[dirtboy]

we're not supposed to complain, even if Bush brings back slavery or concentration camps.. we're supposed to smile and nod.

Yeah, right. Bush is a Nazi. Really original material ya got there.

Guess what? A lot of Bush supports made a lot of noise about runaway spending, and Bush got the message. One can support Bush's re-election without falling for the premise from folks like you that it amounts to a sweeping endorsement of everything that Bush has done. Guess what? The Bush Administration is more prone to listen to criticism from folks who voted for it and who have supported it against Dem attacks over folks who will never vote for it and who cheerfully adapt the Dem attacks as their own talking points.

[George W. Bush]

The GOP has only had Congress, by small margins, for 9 years. Rome wasn't built in a day. It took the Dems almost 80 years of indoctrination through government money to get us where we are. It's going to take time to wean the population of the teat.

But the real expansion in liberal domestic spending has come in the last three budget years. Now, we may be tolerant of some Keynesian spending during a recession. In fact, we've been tolerant to a fault. But we've gone well beyond that point now with a 24% increase in domestic discretionary spending. And they're reviving and expanding programs that conservatives have targetted for elimination for decades. Expansion of NEA, DoEducation, DoLabor are not what we have voted for for many years. And they topped all that other spending off with the massive Pill Bill.

We need to hold their feet to the fire. You let them off the hook far too easily. And this isn't really about Bush either. He's irrelevant unless he finally decides to veto some bill because they didn't squander enough or pander enough to some contituency.

It's the Congress we need to keep the pressure on. They have the checkbook.

And you have to look at Rove's strategy not as it's reported...he's not trying to get large chunks of left wing, liberal, black, hispanic, union, blue collar, etc. votes. He knows all he needs is 1-2% more in key states and Bush walks away with 280-290 electoral votes.

I think Bush would like a large re-election margin so that it validates his hair-thin margin in 2000 and his loss of the popular vote, something no president could like. Rove's strategy, as played out via Bush and the GOP congress, has had this goal all along.

The real change is that Rove has simply been forced to admit that it's clear that the liberals' plantation votes cannot be bought by the GOP and that the symbology of minority appointments has failed. Utterly. It's the only reason they have turned back to us. Had they been successful, they would have dumped us.

Conservatives should make no mistake here. The GOP institutionally has wanted to dump the right wing for years (people like Dole, Pataki, Guiliani, other Rockefeller wing leaders). They want to dump the religious right, the pro-lifers, the pro-family folks, and so on. And the spending expansion has made it clear that they actually want to dump the fiscal conservatives as well. So now the fiscal conservatives and the religious right are united against the liberal Rockefeller wing.

The howl of outrage from the Right over the massive spending of the GOP congress is both the religious right and the fiscal conservatives. And it comes at the exact time when Rove and other GOP strategists can no longer deny that they have failed to pander and bring others into the tent to replace the Right. So they are forced to turn to us again, knowing we are the margin of victory. Again.

They don't like or want us conservatives. They just have to have us. And they can't just buy us. Liberals buy their votes with federal dollars. Our price is that they stop trying to buy everyone with federal dollars and liberal policy.

[George W. Bush]

Winston Churchill lost his election AFTER the war was over.

But do the voters think the 'war' is effectively over? There's the real question. Barring another major attack, I'm not so sure that Bush can bank on this to clinch swing votes.

I think poor Winston is getting flogged a bit much. The situation is not comparable. It would be more comparable to Churchill's Britain if Al-Qaeda currently controlled both Canada and Mexico. But I suppose the rhetoric is persuasive with those who already believe it.

If Kerry/DNC convince swing voters that the situation is no longer similar to a World War II and has instead become a Vietnam of endless slow losses of American troops, Kerry could win. Personally, I'm surprised that more people don't seem to recognize it.

Kerry's strategy will be to paint Bush as an LBJ or a Nixon, not a Churchill. I cannot see any other strategy he can pursue.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

There is not much to be said. Mr. Keyes, God bless him, has said it all! This upcoming election will determine whether America survives or disappears from the face of the earth. Any American that votes Democrat this year is voting for the destruction of the United States. Bin Laden & Company are just standing by, praying for a Democrat victory! Wake up America!

[sr4402]

Well, I think that it shows that they don't have much of a grasp of the real situation if they think this election's going to be decided on the basis of base personal attacks, and that sort of thing. They have got to get out there and begin to articulate concerns that will strike at the heart of the real issues and dangers the country faces. They are not doing it right now, and that's why I think they'll fail.

Keyes summarizes it so well in a nutshell. The democrats have no plan to counter the terrorist threat of 9/11. They are hopelessly antiwar, putting an Vietnam Antiwar Protester up as their candidate. Kerry has taken the Clinton position on terrorism - stating it is a law-enforcement issue (when they are outside of our laws).

Keyes knows this and is correct. If the American people wake up (and families should be awake after the MA ruling) then the democrats will fail miserably.

[mathluv]

I think we have a responsibility to deal with this issue (terrorism) first, because we're not going to be around to deal with the others if we mess with this one.

This can not be repeated often enough. If we do not win the WOT, we will not exist as a country that any of us would recognize.

The dims have made it clear that they would turn our security over to the UN. President Bush will not.

[George W. Bush]

It may prove tragic that Bush has alienated conservatives, he rolled the dice and bet the farm on being able to replace them with cross over votes and minorities. No one knows what the payoff for that gamble will be until Nov.

The only payoff I expect to see is that the younger generation of the Jewish voting bloc is voting GOP in much larger numbers. And the 9/11 attack focused on New York, a major Jewish population center, has brought home to them the plight of their Israeli cousins who face the terror threat every day.

I don't think any particular GOP pandering strategy has actually paid off to cause their apparent defection to the GOP (i.e. the massive deficit spending, Pill Bill, etc.). I think it was 9/11, added to the fact that as an upwardly mobile group, the Jewish bloc has voted for liberal political ideology and against its own economic interests for decades.

[gatorbait]

Wonderful post! This should, though likely won't, muzzle some of the allegedly principled. They are either blind, insane or willingfully suicidal to see this in anything but the the stark reality thisis..a battle for civilization,period.It won't matter a bit about any of the petty grievances they harp on if we throw away the firm stand against this hideous threat to all of humankind. Men who wish to die will be defeated handiliy, provided the leadership and will is there to do it.President Bush inspires his troops and should inspire the nation. Sadly, we do continue to nuture fools,we have that kind of system of freedom. We have civilization.
Jim, thank you again for this terrific excerpt.It is deadly important for all to see.

[George W. Bush]

Isn't it better that this is dealt with now, in the winter and spring of 2004, rather than pretending to wonder what went wrong next November?

Exactly so. The GOP can still win our hearts and votes.

There is still time. We're not impossible to please.

Your remarks about your own friends and family ring true. I know people who feel the same way.

[Bigun]

B R A V O ! ! !

Spot on target! Couldn't have said it myself!

[hobbes1]

COLMES: We continue with Alan Keyes. Ambassador Keyes, as a fiscal conservative, as a true conservative yourself, do you have some problems with the spending of this administration?
KEYES: Oh, I sure do--and I wouldn't want to give the impression that I don't have other problems with this administration on some areas where I think that the president has fallen short of the kinds of things that I really think are needed in some areas.
But I also wouldn't want to give the impression that I think that anything can be more decisive for the American people right now than the question of our national survival in the face of the most insidious threat this nation has ever faced.
In the face of that, I think a lot of us are going to be putting our other issues behind those issues that have to do with the survival of this nation in wartime.

Well, If any of you Freepers, can consider yourselves, either more conservatively committted or more intelligent than Alan Keyes, Now is the time to make your argument.

[gatorbait]

If they don't have tinfoil, I'm not leaving.

They do, but you have to go to the Department of Tin Foil,stand in line and take the little read book in Mandarin ot take the life sized nude photo of Terry McAuliffe. Otherwise, you're stuck,Saber .

[gatorbait]

Bush WILL be as liberal as he wants as long as he keeps.... uh oh.. more koolaid.... slurp!

Kool aid does not make a really lasting statement;try opening your veins,or allow a Democrat victory.Same thing.

[hobbes1]

*ping

[xsmommy]

hey, look who is a pragmatist!!! great news!

[gatorbait]

We have to destroy the middle-class to save America GeronL, don't you get it? It's much better to have your "friends" screw you over than your enemies, at least they smile when they put the knife in your back, eh? I hope that Karl Rove kool-aid is 100 proof because I would need to be drunk out of my mind to pull the lever for GW again

Have you sought treatment?

[hobbes1]

The brilliant ones usually are. ; )