Go to RenewAmerica.us and do a search. You'll find everything you need to know about what he was doing and saying at that time.
I for one know, and think he did exactly the right thing for the country.
Taking on an incumbent President of your own party during wartime would be the height of stupidity.
The enemy was John Kerry and the Democrats. Thank God we all stuck together to defeat them.
It probably would have been political suicide. However taking on Obama was political suicide.
That being said, let's do some what if. Keyes did take Bush on in the primaries and through some strange quick managed to win the nomination. And let's say that luck was even with him further and he won the general election. (Let's not call it luck, but rather intervention whick is within the realm of possibility). What would stop him as President from issuing an executive order stopping abortion? Can executive orders be overturned by anyone except another presideint? Instead of waiting on appointing judges, as this President appears willing to do, judges that can change stripes once on a court that answers to no one, he could end the murder of the innocent with the stroke of his pen. No congressional action, no waiting on a favorable court if one ever comes along. A simple EO.
That's why I find fault with him sitting out the primary. While his chance of winning would have been slim, it could have happened. The enemy was John Kerry and the Democrats. Thank God we all stuck together to defeat them.