Posted on 03/07/2008 11:58:49 PM PST by Kurt Evans
Presidential candidate Alan Keyes may be leaving the GOP. In a conference call last night, Keyes is said to have told supporters that staying in the Republican Party would be "an occasion of sin" and he's ready to bolt. Keyes ... reportedly wants no part in selecting the "type of deodorant we need to make a stinking candidate acceptable to conservatives." A Keyes supporter confirms to Radar that the former Reagan administration official "stated in the conference call that he could no longer remain in the Republican Party."
As for what's next, a third party bid seems like a good bet. Keyes hinted at the possibility on a radio program in January, and an e-mail sent out by the campaign after last night's conference call ... included a link for supporters who "want to vote for Alan as your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice on the Constitution Party presidential poll." A Keyes message board commenter who claims to have been on the conference call last night said regarding the possibility of a Constitution Party run that, "Alan asked us to pray about it." ...
[There was no need for Keyes to go there. He was an oportunistic carpetbagger who’s ego got the better of him.]
Of McCain I would say, he is an oppurtunistic liberal carpet bagger whos ego and temper tantrums and hatred of ritht wing Christian conservatives get the better of him.
Same old Keyes, same old EV.
Seems to me that if the Illinois Republicanss had to go that far afield for a Senatorial candidate, they were pretty moribund to begin with.
Yup.
No, no, no!
Now is not the time to leave the pubs.
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Now is the time to drink, drink, drink. Sköl!
—PS,My vote is for sale.I want a hi-def flat screen TV.—
Me too! I also want a blu-ray DVD player I can hook up to it, so dig in, fellas! </joke>
Seriously, you have a beautiful family. And I take it you pronounce your name FAH-tima (like the Lady) and not Fah-TEE-ma (like the “prophet’s” daughter). The latter pronunciation might not go over so well here! </joke no. 2>
Keyes is wholly unsuitable, not due to his politics (of which I approve strongly), nor due to his rhetorical skills (amazing), but due to his record of getting people worked up and leading them absolutely nowhere.
It would make him more irrelevant than he already is.
—Seems to me that if the Illinois Republicanss had to go that far afield for a Senatorial candidate, they were pretty moribund to begin with.—
I hear that! Talk about being out of ammo.
He’s right.
Unfortunately, people don’t want to hear it, and he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected.
People won’t put up with being “educated” with what is happening or has happened.
Too long. They don’t have the patience.
Give’em soundbites.
The masses want bread and circuses.
They’ll elect someone who will promise them that.
—And which of these do you think McCain won’t support, if it makes Kennedy and Liebermann invite him over for dinner, and the NYT shower him with praise?—
To paraphase one of our most overrated Presidents, Harry (I’ll fire McArthur, so Americans can die for a tie) Truman:
“If you run a democrat against a democrat, people will vote for the democrat every time.”
And the Lord may just let the people suffer under whomever they elect.
He may say, you have done this to yourselves.
Read the book of Kings.
I agree. Pray that we get a leader we need and not one that we deserve.
and free stuff. What’s in it for me?
You have my vote for the most diplomatic description of a scoundrel.
Alan Keyes supported reparations in his Senate run against Barak Obama. I totally reject such welfare-state thinking.
However, it appears to be one of Keyes few policy miscues. In most areas, we agree. I trust he will dissuade the CP from its Defense-light view of protecting our country. They’ve got to eventually acknowledge that the Constitution allows for military action less than all-out war.
That might tempt me to vote GOP once more...but it ould take more than just Keyes...I respect him, not McCain.
Just plain stupid.
McCain voted YES to nominate Ginsburg.
I doubt that he would fail to “reach across the aisle.”
>the abolition of The Electoral College,
Sorry, the president - or the Congress - cannot change the Constitution the last I looked.
>a return to treating terrorism as a police matter,
McCain has called for the closing of GITMO and giving those detained there access to our judicial system.
But I see your point and it is valid.
> the highest taxes the country will have ever seen
McCain voted AGAINST the Bush tax cuts. Twice.
Of course he now is in favor of them.
>legalized partial-birth abortion on demand.
Socialized Medicine,
I see your point about socialized medicine but abortion is currently mostly a matter for the courts, not the executive branch.
Now I'm not supporting Keyes or any 3rd party.
Far from it, but McCain is fatally flawed as far as my vote is concerned.
Not that what I do is going to make much difference, and you do raise interesting points. - Thank you - bill.
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