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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Here is the article from the Oklahoma paper, from KEYES OWN WEB SITE:
Read the whole thing here.

Here is the opening paragraph of the article,
of which apparently he is quite proud,
since he has posted his smiling face beside it:
Doggedly refusing to consider the Republican race settled,
Alan Keyes told Oklahomans that Texas Gov. George W. Bush
can't win the presidency because he lacks the skills to expose
the ``great moral betrayal'' of the Clinton administration.
Ending a two-day campaign stop in the state Friday,
Keyes stuck mainly to religious and philosophical themes
as he decried a society he said is more dependent
on government than God.

This is from his OWN WEB SITE.
His comments were not helpful to the campaign,
and were, indeed, petty.
# 223 by Miss Marple
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You have a strange idea of "petty."

Allan Keyes "doggedly" ran for the Republican nomination from the begining.
Everybody said from that begining that he didn't have a chance.

Keyes ran for office because he didn't see anyone else
that cared about the violations he saw happening.
It isn't petty to try to right the wrongs you see around you.

Bush was acknowledged
as the only possible winner
of the Republican nomination,
yet there were 6 other candidates
for the position.

Were all of Bush's other challengers "petty" as well?

That is true, there were 6 other candidates, all of whom withdrew before summer and supported President Bush...all except Alan Keyes, who held his delegates until 10 days before the convention. Not exactly a ringing endorsement from Dr. Keyes.

If Keyes was such a superior debater, and especially since McCain had trashed Christian conservatives, do you really think that the networks would have allowed McCain to be destroyed in a debate by Keyes if Bush hadn't shown up? Think on.

In fact, I will suibmit that the networks showed that debate because they were counting on Keyes to destroy Bush. It didn't happen because Bush was awake on all suits and merely looked pleasant and friendly, which is the actual point of the Presidential Debates, regardless of what you people think. The object of being in the debates is to get votes, and if you have to do a tap dance or sing opera, you do it. Period.