Posted on 03/13/2008 7:41:28 PM PDT by NotChosenName
Alan Keyes Leaving Republican Party
By John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
JLof@aol.com
After 20 or so years of working within the GOP to try and reform it into a more Christian/conservative Party, Dr. Alan Keyes is leaving the Republican Party. He will soon make this announcement and explain why he can no longer, in good conscience, remain a Republican.
Many things over the past two decades or so have contributed to Alan’s decision to leave the GOP. One recent example: A secret meeting of some conservative “leaders” discussing not how to oppose John McCain but what promises McCain might make to allow conservatives to sell-out and support him for President.
When Alan saw what this meeting was about, and that it was not about opposing McCain, or to discuss Christian/conservatives possibly leaving the GOP, he chastised some in the meeting for having an understanding of politics not single-minded in its promotion of God. He told them respect for God cannot be restored if our politics is based only on calculation. He left the meeting.
Alan believes John McCain stinks. He believes most of the conversation in the meeting he left was how to deoderize McCain.
Alan believes, accurately, that the GOP has used conservatives just to get their votes and that the GOP has betrayed many fine Christian people. And this is why much of talk at meeting he left was so disgusting because it was about how to clean up McCain to get conservatives to vote for him. He believes McCain is unsupportable because of things McCain has already done – such as supporting embryonic stem cell research. Such a position by McCain demonstrates that McCain has no Godly understanding of things, Alan believes.
Alan believes Christians should hold up a Christian plumbline as a measuring standard and make this Godly standard known. He believes the Christian faith of Christians should determine their political judgments. He believes it is a lie to say, in a Godly universe, that we are ever in a position where we must choose evil!...Christians must have Christ’s priorities – to seek first the Kingdom of God. Alan believes it is not the role of civil government (Caesar) to house, clothe, feed, or educate anybody. He believes all our problems relate to our having turned our backs on God. * * * Robert Fischer is a South Dakota businessman who spearheaded the recent two secret meetings alluded to here. He seems to be very nice man, soft-spoken, a sincere Christian man. We spoke on-the-record.
Noting that many fellow-conservatives are unhappy with McCain, Fischer says “so they need assurances from him (McCain) in order to motivate us or he’s going to lose the election.” So, three things were agreed on at these meetings re: McCain: (1) “He has to have a socially conservative vice president. (2) He needs to appoint socially conservative people to his panel that picks his judicial nominees. (3) He has to reverse course on his embryonic stem cell position. He’s got to turn around on that. If he did those things they would help motivate the conservative base.”
Fischer says other people are working on other things McCain must agree to. He says this is necessary because in past what was promised conservatives by other candidates was not done. So, McCain must make “absolute, guaranteed promises.”
Well, now. Point one (already made): John McCain is already unacceptable for what he has already done, because he has no Christian/conservative worldview. End of discussion. Or, I should say, this should be the end of the discussion. But, it isn’t.
Furthermore, whatever “assurances” McCain might make are, in reality, nothing but talk, hot air. And I’m sure McCain will have no problem making any “absolute, guaranteed promise” he thinks is necessary to get himself elected.
I tell Fischer McCain is already not supportable because of what he’s done in the past, because of how he thinks. I tell him it is breath-taking what suckers conservatives are, how so many are ready to support McCain if he’ll just say things.
I ask Fischer: “Could you support McCain under certain circumstances?”
Fischer: “I’m wrestling with this in his heart.”
Me: “Are you a Christian?”
Fischer: “Yes.”
Me: “Then you cannot support McCain because he has no Christian/Biblical/Constitutional understanding of civil government. Christians must have a Christian/Biblical litmus test for candidates for public, God-ordained civil government offices.
Fischer: “That is a position that needs to be voiced because there are a lot of people who feel that way.”
Me: “It is stupid to make support of McCain contingent on mere words, mere promises, to say, in effect, ‘Hey!, we want to sell-out to you! Just give us some reasons to do this, just give us some fig-leaf promises to hide our Godless political nakedness! Christians must stop voting for the lesser-of-of-two-evils, must stop playing “Boogie Man” politics – which says, ‘Yeah, I know the Republican candidate stinks but, hey!, the other guy/gal really smells bad and if we don’t defeat him/her the sky falls, the seas boil, all first-born children die, blah, blah, blah --- Boo! Be very afraid!
“If there is no Godly candidate in the race, we as Christians do not have to vote. Voting is a sacrament only to the civil religionists which we are not if we are Biblical Christians. It is not a sin to not vote! It is time for Christians to leave the Republican Party, to leave that political Sodom and Gomorrah – and do not look back! You should hold a press conference and say all of this!”
He thanks me for the call. I later email him some material from our Web site including Scott Whiteman’s excellent article “Yes, God Does Tell Us Who To Vote For” http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=693.
See Ya Bye!
Later!
Take that nutjob Lofton with you!
LOL
Alan Keyes is not leaving the Republican party. The Republican party is leaving him.
Alan Keyes is the most eloquent, articulate, principled, rhetorically gifted nutball I know. I wish him well with his new party of one — two if you count his tumorous ego as a separate entity.
Good riddance!
One less wingnut to apologize for.
IBTFRKHU
LOL!
Ya aint the only one Alan!
My teenager talks like that.
A lot of Freepers rip Alan Keyes...yet this man is brilliant and solid in constitutional issues. We have so few real passionate leaders with a christian worldview in GOP leadership. Losing Alan Keyes is a big loss IMHO and a bad sign that GOP is reeling.
I don’t agree with Keyes on everything but pretty much do agree the Republican party takes from Christians but gives nothing back. Maybe Reagan did a little but even he didn’t really push against abortion.
Wonder if CAL (Connie Hair) is still working for him?
Buh-bye.
Ironic that someone who actually is pathologically a maverick leaves over someone who just has the rep of being one.
Don’t let the door hit cha in the hiney
The GOP deserves everything it's fixin to experience.
The republican party has betrayed conservatives and it's power will erode even further.
Hyper-globalism is NOT what Americans signed on for. A government for and by the corporate interest and lobbyist.
Maybe after four years of Obama / Clinton, the Grand Ol Party will get the message.
I hope so.
Wow.
Can I just say I wrote that?
‘Cause I coulda.
I’m pretty sure I’ll be following Keyes out of the Republican party. I’m waiting to see who he picks as his VP running mate but I think he’ll make his contempt of conservatives obvious with his choice.
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