[You, substituting snideness for a response] You're kidding right?
Read his quote a few more times then get back to me.
The 2004 GOP platform does not contain the word "conservative" anywhere in it, and only a few things in it could be said to be "conservative" -- and those are all economic issues.
Elsewhere, the size of the government and the budget are substantially expanded -- by the argument of the American Conservative Union, more than in any single proposition since the New Deal.
George W. Bush and his family are not now, and never have been, conservatives. Bush senior ran for his congressional district, and later for the senate, as a Republican liberal -- a "Rockefeller Republican", on principia that Olympia Snowe and Lincoln Chaffee would find palatable. Dubya has been more conservative, or actually less liberal than his father, but could not be said to be any more conservative than a typical Republican moderate from the Midwest or North. Look at his cabinet: he has no conservatives in sensitive positions other than John Ashcroft. Rumsfeld is a northern, moderate Republican. Colin Powell is a moderate, and Condi Rice is a moderate Republican from California. There are no Newt Gingriches or Bob Barrs in Bush's cabinet -- no conservative, white Southern Republicans. Rod Paige, the Secretary of Education, is from Texas, but a) he's black, b) he's a moderate, c) he's a professional education bureaucrat, and d) the fact that the Department of Education and the Department of Energy still exist are further convincing evidence for Bush's big-government, moderate Republican views.
That George W. Bush has turned to such people for counsel indicates that he is not a conservative, but a moderate, cafeteria Republican. Bush's actions as governor of Texas further support the view that he is not a conservative, but instead has opposed conservatives for statewide office, putting up business-wing RiNO's to run in the GOP primaries against conservative incumbents.
Alan Keyes said something that is a palpable truism; that is not an attack. It is time for you to uncurl your lip and recognize that.
Now, what is your problem with Alan Keyes?
With all due respect, your attempt to turn Keye's attack on Bush into something IT IS NOT is so convoluted and boring I'm not even going to waste my time attempting to untangle it.