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1. The Illinois GOP invited him to run after they had so badly screwed up with their original candidate, and were unable to get Mike Ditka to run. Keyes was not cherry-picking a state to run in. He accepted their offer after learning that Barack Obama SUPPORTS MURDERING CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN BORN ALIVE AFTER BOTCHED ABORTIONS.

2. Get along with what others? The media? Because he's strongly supporting Bush for President. He's not the one breaking the 11th commandment, but a lot of Freepers are.

I have a question for you. As a Freeper and presumably a conservative, hasn't experience taught you not to trust the media? I understand other people may be decieved by the media's spin (for example, media outlets including FoxNews saying Keyes called Mary Cheney a "sinner" when there is no evidence he ever did), but shouldn't Freepers know better than to trust the Wolf Blitzers of the world? Why is it that, as long as it is critical of Alan Keyes, certain people on this forum will lap up anything the media says?

3. Why yes, at least two on this very thread. Dave S and GovernmentShrinker come to mind, right off the top of my head. This in spite of the fact that Barack Obama thinks it is okay to kill infants after they have been born. The fact that he is pro-abortion is bad enough, but this? How can any conservative support this monster?

Also, there are a lot of people on Freerepublic who say things like "I don't disagree with what he said but". They pick at him and pick at him, and some tear him apart, every day. They hate the man and everything he says. I think it's a personality conflict. However, their sustained hatred of Keyes and their lack of ANY CRITICISMS OF BABY-KILLER OBAMA indicate that they'd support Obama over a man they seem to hate so much, although they don't have the courage to say it.

4. No, I think people are allowed to disagree with Keyes. But I think a lot of this vitriol is payback for Keyes and his supporters' earlier criticisms of Bush. It's one thing to criticize Keyes, but quite another to tear him apart at every opportunity, no matter what. I don't see why that should be allowed to happen to a fellow conservative. The moderators don't let people do it to Bush, so they don't let it happen to Keyes.

Make that at least 4 on this thread (and several others who I know support Obama but perhaps haven't seen this thread or don't have the nerve to be up front).

Any man whose morality would allow him to vote against legislation that would prevent the murder of babies is not a man who should ever serve in the Senate, and not a man any conservative should ever support. And I don't care how "dumb" or "strident" you think Alan Keyes is.

I understand other people may be decieved by the media's spin (for example, media outlets including FoxNews saying Keyes called Mary Cheney a "sinner" when there is no evidence he ever did), but shouldn't Freepers know better than to trust the Wolf Blitzers of the world? Why is it that, as long as it is critical of Alan Keyes, certain people on this forum will lap up anything the media says?

I do not base my opinion on the media and what makes you qualified to determine how my opinions are formed?

This is not the first time Keyes has taken a big ol' bite out of his "own". It wasn't long ago that Alan Keyes said this about George Bush.

Keyes said Bush's decision was more damaging than anything that Bill Clinton, often called the villain of the right, could have done.

"The evil that you know, the evil that inspires you to fight again is not the worst evil," Keyes said.

"The worst evil creeps behind your lines and dominates your leadership."

Pretty nasty biting of one's own there.