Posted on 03/16/2002 1:32:37 PM PST by humbletheFiend
Problem is TOO many people have the right to vote.
I believe that Dr. Keyes believes in women's suffrage.
I'm not absolutely positive about that, though.
I think you're talking about ancient rumors here, aren't you? I don't think that Kristol and Keyes actually "roomed" together, did they?
And, in any event, Dr. Keyes is now a "Bush Republican."
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Alan's comments about peasants and theologians is right from Leo Strauss--Bill Kristol's hero. Keyes not only roomed with Kristol at Harvard, they both developed a similar political philosophy--the Straussian idea that an enlightened elite must guide the peasants.
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Keyes actual and recent words:
"Among the many responsibilities and privileges of a free people, one of the noblest is the task of forming and maintaining principled resolve in time of war. Citizens of the free American Republic must supply something beyond what was demanded of the subjects of warlike kingdoms. Along with willing soldiers and a beehive of impassioned support at home, we must supply as well the sustained national act of will to prosecute the war. And this will must be formed from a genuine understanding that our cause is just. Our leaders can and must help in this – indeed, there may be no more important responsibility they face than ensuring that we only wield the sword when our cause is just. But the ultimate responsibility is ours."
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'nuff said.
Have you finished putting down that little paleo-Keyesian uprising over at Declaration Foundation yet?
I think it's more "lewrockwell" types, and a dear old enemy who calls himself "Thomas Aquinas Paine" than it is Keyesians of any stripe!
And I still reject your neo/paleo distinction, but I do find it charming ...
Cheers,
Richard F.
Ditto! Both are embarrassments. I guess that's why they don't do each other's shows. Ego size = Doublewide.
Well, I know that it can't be that easy for you right now, with one foot in the past and one in the future.
But I'm keeping an eye on you and I think you're coming along pretty well, for the most part. I know that deep down inside you're as thrilled as I am to have the real Alan Keyes back.
BTW, a question came up that I couldn't readily answer. Does Alan support the Nineteenth Amendment?
Cheers,
Richard F.
Sure, but it's a Straussian support, so it really means he's against it...
Sarcasm off ...
Seriously he does, it's the Sixteenth he's against.
Keep the faith.
Speaking of it taking one to know one. Since the topic here is whether or not one supports such activities as the despicable attack on he 9/11 survivors by the cartoonist Ted Rall, and we all know that you would never violate FR rules by going off topic on your first post to a thread, I take it that you support Mr. Rall and his anti-American hate. Or perhaps you take the position of the writer of the article, Jef Allen, and despise Keyes for being too slavish a Bush supporter.
Which is it, VA?
1) You hate America;
2) You hate President Bush;
3) You hate Jim Robinson and Free Republic by violating the forum rules against going off-topic or attacking GOP candidates?
Whichever it is, it is clear that you are a hater, and a really sick puppy!
Jef Allen is obviously a paleo-Keyesian.
It's one of the anti-Lincoln, anti-GOP network.
Worth browsing ...
Richard F.
I think it's most likely the latter - some people now "despise Keyes for being too slavish a Bush supporter." The return of the real Alan Keyes has been a source of a great deal of pain for some of the paleo-Keyesians.
Bush-Keyes in 2004!
That seems pretty clear to me,
even if he doesn't himself realize it yet.
Try covering the picture or tune it to invisibility, if this is a problem for you.
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