Posted on 02/09/2009 12:20:24 PM PST by EternalVigilance
When I ran for the U.S. Senate against Barack Obama I did my best to speak the truth. I knew when I accepted the invitation of the Illinois Republicans that I stood little or no chance of victory. With few exceptions, everyone I consulted advised against it. Most thought it political suicide. But the facts convinced me that Obama is a dangerous left-wing extremist. When confronted with the proven depravity of his moral views, my faith and conscience convicted me as well. After years of telling audiences that we had to stand for right and truth no matter what the cost, I felt that the Lord would hold me accountable if I refused to walk the talk. Sometimes we are not called to victory, but to witness for truth, as Jesus did, even unto death.
So when I campaigned in Illinois I let no false ambition; no kind of blandishment or intimidation; and no whispers of political gain or loss distract me from speaking the truth. I talked about Obama's extremist support for abortion (including his unconscionable willingness to tolerate infanticide in Illinois hospitals); I described him as a hard line socialist, pointing out his uncompromising commitment to central government control of health care and education; I pointed to the contradiction between his professed support for traditional marriage and his consistent promotion of the homosexual agenda. I remember talking to people, including Republican leaders, and others who have built little empires and big reputations as leaders of the so-called "Christian right", (what I call more appropriately the moral conservatives). Time and again I heard in response feckless mumblings about how moderate he seemed in his speech at the Democratic convention. Time and again I felt the implication that I was somehow exaggerating, imprudently "demonizing the opposition." They did little or nothing. And when the pro-abortion elements of the Illinois Republican Party openly went on the offensive against my refusal to back down from my stand for moral principle and real conservatism, in silence and inaction these leaders complied with their politically ruthless intention.
Meanwhile I and my family encountered from the Obama forces the ugliest indignities I have ever experienced in politics: Parades in which Obama's marshaled minions shouted curses and epithets almost every step of the way; and forums in which they rudely launched expletives with gestures just short of physical violence. At one such forum the environment they created was so ugly that my wife was visibly shaken, and my daughter in tears. Even on Election Day, when we went to the polling place to vote, a man there created a disturbance. He shouted insults. He acted in a physically threatening way. Nothing was done to stop him, and the pandering Illinois media breathed hardly a word about it in their so-called news coverage.
In all of this there was a hard edged disdain for decent civility that reminded me of the murderous invective Lenin launched against those who opposed the communist agenda. But it all took place behind a media fabricated façade of false hope and moderateness, like the propaganda screen behind which the totalitarians of the twentieth century hid their perpetration of atrocity.
Having felt the cutting edge of this reality, on election night I refused to engage in the nice ritual usually associated with the resolution of our political contests in America. Obama's people treated politics as war. But in war only gutless servility congratulates a ruthless opponent on the victory he has gained without civility. Mine was to be sure, a silent protest but loud enough to have some so-called leaders, supposedly on my side, losing no opportunity to "apologize" for my behavior.
Since 2004 I have walked in the political wilderness. This walk is not without its burdens, but I am heartened when I remember whose footsteps I find there: those of people like Reagan and Winston Churchill who in their dedication to right refused to let ambition triumph over truth. Assaulted, ridiculed, caricatured, ignored, at times reduced to a small and almost covert band of like-minded adherents, they kept their faith. They witnessed the rising power of the evils they warned against. They witnessed the policies of appeasement, retreat and surrender practiced by unprincipled leaders in the face of those evils. They witnessed the day when hard experience finally forced those who had all but forgotten their existence to turn and make a stand against wickedness triumphant over freedom.
I have an ominous feeling about the years ahead. With Obama, we have crossed the line that separates civil politics from civil war disguised as politics. Occupying the White House is a man known for his support and association with people (like leftist Kenyan politician Raila Amollo Odinga) for whom that line appears never to have existed. I predict that American politics as we have known it is gone. And unless we Americans wake up, more than civil politics will end up dead. For there are other footsteps in this wilderness, left by leaders who opposed the Communists when they took over Eastern European countries in the late 1940s, or Asian countries in the fifties, or African countries in the sixties, or South American and South African countries in the eighties, and so on. Mostly we do not know their names, nor can we mark the spot where their lives were overtaken because their compatriots did not wake up in time. But, with the Psalmist, I will fear no evil, for here, as everywhere, I see the footprints of the one who conquered death itself. Wherever they lead, there is life renewed.
Read more from Alan Keyes at www.LoyaltoLiberty.com...
If you aren’t familiar with Keyes’ actions in Illinois, I’ll give you the executive summary:
When Keyes came into the state, it was pretty clear that he was not going to win the election, but there were thousands of people here that did not want to waste an opportunity to build real grass-roots conservatism in Illinois (as opposed to the existing joke of a party ‘leadership’ we had).
From day one of Keyes’ presence in Illinois, up to and including election day, he raised money on the premise that it was not just going to be directed towards this election cycle, but would be used to build grass-roots conservatism in the state beyond November 2004. Keyes and his campaign staffers raised money on this explicit promise.
Despite Keyes’ direct, unequivocal promises to remain in the state no matter the outcome of the election, he and his minions left a matter of weeks after losing and never looked back.
Those are facts, and if Mr. Chairman wants to dispute any of them, he if free to do so. All he ever offers, however, is rationalizations of *why* Keyes had to lie.
Amazing how closely Obambi is following the game. What is odd is that if you know the rules, one can turn the tables.
I have read to much history. This won't end well.
Huge deficits, debt, and a backlash. Eventually.
Mayhap I can across you before, were you a Huckabbe hick or a McLame hippocrite? Which ever, thanks for helping hand the good old US of A over to a piece of fecal matter like Riala Odinga’s semi-literate cousin. You know, Huck Man, Barry Sorento.
Sheesh the self important ill-educated experts in the late republican party.
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Whatever faults Dr. Keyes may have has a politician (and every politician of every stripe has faults) are orders of magnitude outweighed by his profoundly eloquent understanding of the philosophical and moral roots of American constitutional liberty. When I listen to Keyes I hear the brilliance of the founders updated for an era in which moral relativism, political corruption, situational ethics, cultural marxism and corruptive globalism all to often rears it’s ugly head and predominates.
Alan Keyes’s opposition to to these destrutive influences are uncompromising. His ability to precisely define why these vices are so corrosive of our constitutional claims to liberty and self governence is what so unnerves his opposition, particularly those who can only be seen to have tenuous claims to be on the same side of the issues as Keyes is. I am referring to those who would create common ground and accomodate the depraved forces who seek to undermine, disrupt and destroy the foundational principles and very best parts of American liberty and Western Civillization.
I worked periphally for Alan Keye’s senatorial campaign as a surrogate speaker in opposition to the hideous prospect of a US senator called Barack Obama. It is one of the things in my life that I am most proud that I had an opportunity to do, and that I was even considered worthy to be good enough too do. What was done to Alan Keyes by the leadership of the Illinois Republican party was an absolute disgrace that I hope will be revealed by the future historical record, and whose record of perfidy toward conservative candidates is disclosed by it’s present pitiful state.
God bless Alan Keyes for his courage and willingness to seek the truth as it can best be discerned.
Dont forget that we have a lying crypto-marxist of a counterfeit POTUS from the most corrupt environs of leftist Chicago gutter politics and who MAY be an illegal alien, who has by my count told 168 LIES on the campaign trail that are aat variance with the factual record, has the abortion policy of a Nazi, committed 4 violations of the Logan Act, has taken illegal foreign campaign money, is beholden to the most corrupt national political organization outside of the DemocRAT party, Acorn, believes that the constitution is a flawed document because judges cannot break it free of the constraints placed upon it by the founders, is more concerned with protecting the rights of terrorists that the security of the US, wants to redisribute wealth in a Fabian socialist or Soviet manner, is a commited gun grabber, and is the most inveterate political liar that I have EVER seen in my life.
Considering all the above, your problem with Dr Keyes is???
And just who was clamoring to run against B.Hussein.O, once Mr Ryans divorce papers were opened up? Alan Keyes was asked to run by Ill. Republicans, he didn’t push his way in.
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?’ the mouse wondered - - -
he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap the warning : There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!’ The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, ‘Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.’ The mouse turned to the pig and told him, ‘There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!’
The pig sympathized, but said, ‘I am so very sorry, MrMouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.’ The mouse turned to the cow and said, ‘There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!’ cow said, ‘Wow, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose.’
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap . . . alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house — like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient.But his wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer’s wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn’t concern you, remember —- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
There is a solution. It will become apparent.
A lot of “I’s” in that article....
You’re darnright.
True. He wasn’t sure that he wanted to publish it, as it is out of character for him to speak in this way.
But I urged him to do so because I believe people need to hear the whole story to truly understand the background about who Barack Hussein Obama is, and the forces that are empowering him.
I believe that you’re right.
“Civil War as Politics?”
That’s one way of looking at it.
Keyes has lost his marbles, but he is probably right in this case.
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