You might actually, instead of going for the snappy rejoinder, read his entire post and reply to his point.
[swheats] It shouldn't be amazing that many who are black will not walk lockstep just for the sake of the party. We did that under the democrats. Keyes learned under the best in working for Reagan. But he is his own man with his own ideas and should be given an opportunity to speak concerning the issues. And not be judged by the hand of other writers who have an agenda or two.
He also added a line about a "gift horse".
Could it be you simply didn't take his point, because you didn't like it?
RiNO's like to woof about how they're all about "big tents" -- and never moreso than when they're busily kicking conservatives out of one -- and how they want to "reach out".
Unless I misunderstood him, swheats was telling you, look, here is your crossover candidate who can really reach into the black community and talk about things that matter to them about why their kids need stable homes and good schools. Alan Keyes went to a good school -- Harvard -- and his bearing and presence annihilate every ancient stereotype about the educability of black men, and the appropriateness of a liberal education to people born to labor. He is a one-man trade show of what a real education can do for a person, not the kind the NEA specializes in.
Alan Keyes is the candidate who can, forcefully and with convincing power, penetrate the old hagiology of black citizens as a client class dependent on the Democratic Party. This is your outreach candidate, your really big tent candidate. Are you going to throw him away because he's "too conservative" for you? He might not be "too conservative" for black voters with kids on the south side of Chicago. Not if he gets up and starts talking about education and what kids really need, and why it isn't the kind of formulaic, New-Deal-warmed-over tripe that Barack Obama will be offering.
Alan Keyes is the candidate who can, forcefully and with convincing power, penetrate the old hagiology of black citizens as a client class dependent on the Democratic Party
I think you've got it. And I'm a she. Now if only Robert can read all the sentences and not just those he can make me appear against Bush...