Pardon me. I interpreted, "Up until now, I wouldn't class you with..." to mean that you had finally drawn that conclusion. That's usually what it means, right?
Your perspective on this is too limited. Doesn't make you a bad person...but you just don't know the whole story.
OK. What's the whole story, EV? What I see is people expressing their opinions, good and bad, about Alan Keyes. You seem to be suggesting that something far more serious and/or sinister is going on here. So what is the crime that is being perpetrated against you?
First, let me say that I don't have time nor the inclination to write a history here of the long, sorry saga of those here on FR who would like nothing better than for Alan Keyes, or any one with the temerity to suggest that leaders of our party are compromising parts of the Republican platform, to just shut up and go away.
As to people expressing their opinions, that's fine. But what you don't realize is that certain folks, many of them present now, have made it a sick sport to disrupt most Keyes threads with the types of stuff we're witnessing here tonight.
Have you, or have you not, been involved with GOP and or Conservative politics in the past? If you had, you would know that many...those currently referred to on FR as RINOs, Republicans in name only...would like nothing better than for principled conservatives to just shut up...vote Republican...and never, ever mention any of those core principles that our party is supposed to represent...like the God-given, inalienable right to life...the sanctity of our nation's sovereignty...etc. They consider conservatives to be an embarrassment, and worthy of nothing but scorn.
The trashing of Keyes has been building here for over 2 years...you are rather late to the game. My response to certain individuals is harsh, yes...but it a defensive harshness. Do I not have a right to defend my friends...people I greatly admire and respect, from gratuitous attacks on them?
Or perhaps you think I should just let it pass when they attribute all kinds of crass motivations to people I know aren't driven by such things?
Should I just let it pass when lovely Christian folks are called cultists?
Please make a greater effort to discern the difference between attackers and defenders...for the sake of your own political education, and so that you don't find yourself allied with those who practice the politics of personal destruction.
Regards, and good night...EV