If you haven't already noticed, it's a gang of ten or so. They show up on every Keyes thread. As to their motivation, your guess is as good as mine. Most of their attacks are ad hominem and content free, which leads me to suspect a personal vendetta of some kind.
Perhaps your ability to discern is lacking or you like to pretend. Either way, it isn't flattering.
I love the whine about the ad hominem crap. Don't you get it? Keyes does and has turned people off enough to make most of what he says lost on his pompous, know-it-all manner.
If that is what one leads with, the "attitude" tends to take center stage. Thus, criticism of him is justifiably focused on the very thing that he pushes most; that no-one-knows-better-than-I routine. He's too puffed up and for many observers, it's distracting enough to drown out his words.
I realize that you Keyes worshipers cannot understand this because you have this idol fixation. Funny.....he depends on suckers like you to make a living for himself.
Oh yes, because it couldn't possibly be that anyone would have trouble with Alan Keyes' public remarks and divisive nature. It must be personal. < /sarcasm >
I realize how impossible it is for you guys to believe that Keyes could make a mistake, but the truth is, he had most of "us" (BOO!) in his camp at one time or another. I used to like him quite a lot...but, as with John McCain, my opinion of him evolved.
I don't have a "personal vendetta" against McCain, either.
Free Republic's rules prevent me from posting my guess.