[VeryUnprogressive]

"...but Keyes has proven, time and again, that he cannot work within the confines of a political party or a political process..."

Perhaps that's where the distinction is.

You (and seemingly the other detractors) view Keyes' unwavering conservative positions, and refusal to capitulate on principle as a negative attribute, something that makes him "unelectable" "divisive" and therefore not a welcome, or electable, member of the GOP.

I (only speaking for myself) view this a mark of a great man. An individual who will stand with integrity, and let the chips fall where they may. And if it means that he gets 1% of the vote, so be it. At least he can go home with his head held high.

Bush, with his 400 billion dollar socialist big government Medicare expansion, and his $15 billion for AIDS in Africa, and his proposed amnesty for illegal aliens, and his signing of the unconstitutional McCain campaign finance reform bill, and his applauding of the Supreme Court decision effectively leaving racist affirmative action in place, and his refusal to remove us from the WTO and other organizations that destroy our national sovereignty, and his wimpy tax cuts combined with a proposed "rebate check" for non-taxpayers, and his feverish attempts to cover-up for the treacherous Saudi regime, and his support of the unconstitutional "assault weapons" ban, and his double-standard for Israel, and the Patriot Act, and the socialist No Child Left Behind Program etc etc etc etc.. has proven that with control of two branches of government, he'll choose to be a savvy politician, but not a bedrock conservative.

This separates Keyes and Bush, and perhaps it's what differentiates our opinions about the two.

[habs4ever]

For a man to be great, he must do great things.Talk is cheap and costs nothing from Keyes, so you get tons of it, all unsolicited, too.He's not a do-er.

[deport]

This separates Keyes and Bush, and perhaps it's what differentiates our opinions about the two.

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Yep that is why one is the leader and the other is the malcontent snipping like a little cur dog. One can achieve leadership and one can only wish...

[A Citizen Reporter]

"This separates Keyes and Bush,"

That and roughly 100 million votes.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Here, take the True Conservative test:

Sitting in your chair, make clockwise circles on the floor in front of you with your right foot.

Now as you do that, tilt yourhead back, reach up high with your right hand and draw the figure "6" in the air.

What happened to your foot?

Let me know, and I'll grade you.

[Amelia]

You (and seemingly the other detractors) view Keyes' unwavering conservative positions, and refusal to capitulate on principle as a negative attribute, something that makes him "unelectable" "divisive" and therefore not a welcome, or electable, member of the GOP.

Keyes is entertaining, and he's a great orator, but he's not electable, because he "doesn't play well with others".

When Keyes was campaigning for president, he said many things, and most of them sounded really nice -- but all of us, if we were honest, knew that (1) he didn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell of being elected, and (2) even if he was, he stood an even smaller chance of getting his proposals through Congress.

.......a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
(Shakespeare, MacBeth)