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Good riddance.
Wonderful news! There might actually be a conservative in the race.
Now, the fun part for conservative FReepers starts. If Amb. Keyes actually does jump ship and run on the CP ticket, watching the GOP apologists will prove highly entertaining.
The sheer irony of this is that it was another Keyes defeat in 2004 (one of more than one can count on one hand) that brought about this Obamanaia that so enthralls the gullible American people. Most (2/3 in most polls) do agree with Keyes on one point: GWB has failed.
Keyes just seems like an angry guy.
Decent idea — Wrong candidate.
Sadly, it’d be good riddance. And he’s got the staggering ego to be content being the Right’s Ralph Nader. As long as he’s in the spotlight.
A better idea would be to wait until after the election to see how solid the Democrats’ control of Congress will be. If not overwhelming, a third party loke the Constitution Party could conceivably put 5 to 7 Reps and 1 or 2 Senators in office in 2010 and act as a spoiler. Hopefully, then BOTH parties would have to give conservatives something to get their agenda passed.
It’s a mistake for a third party to focus on the POTUS - the deck is stacked there. Focus on upsetting the applecart in Congress!
If he runs third party conservative, I will vote for him rather than waste my vote on the liberal lite McCain and my conscience will not be violated when McCain, if he is elected by the rinos and liberals, begins his greenie programs and illegal immigrant legislations that will continue to destroy us all.
If he does, he gets my vote. Close the borders.
He must really need the money...
Funny this comes out now... I just got my Constitution Party membership card yesterday.
Will Alan Keyes repay his campaign debts?
A tree falling in the forest....
Back in the 1990s, I would have said (of leaving the GOP) that it was a futile, wasted gesture.
Nowadays, I am wondering how long it will be until I do the same thing.
I could get on board with a McCain-Keyes ticket, absolutely.
If Keyes does this, it would be nothing but a self-centered vanity run.
I am constantly amazed at how self-centered we have become. Way too many of us act like little kids who take their marbles home and pout if everybody won’t play by their rules.
That’s not how it works in a democratic society, folks. People who want to live in freedom and peace learn to get along, to compromise, to listen to the other guy even when he’s dead wrong.
Sometimes your guy or your ideas just don’t resonate with all your countrymen. And when that happens, you need to play nice and work for the next-best. This is not a perfect world.
In the primaries, a vanity run to get your ideas heard is appropriate. Ron Paul is an example — goofy but interesting. Alan Keyes needs to find another outlet for his views, because messing with this election is pure selfishness.
In the general election, a vanity run would only siphon a few votes, but in a close election could put Hillary or Obama in the White House.
If Alan Keyes runs with the Constitution Party, my conscience will allow me to vote for him IF John McCain does not pick an acknowledged, significant, viable, CONSERVATIVE VP running mate.
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.
That might tempt me to vote GOP once more...but it ould take more than just Keyes...I respect him, not McCain.