September 2004

A high-tech lynching of the U.S. candidate from Illinois

ArchPundit September 6, 2004 1 Comment

Don’t worry Keyes fans, Joseph Farah has your back.

A lot of weak-kneed Republicans are running away from Alan Keyes because of his remarks about homosexuality. Weak-minded “conservative” pundits are making themselves look more “mainstream” by denouncing Keyes. Homosexual activists and their friends in the press have conducted a high-tech lynching of the U.S. candidate from Illinois.

Farah is pretty funny:

Alan Keyes didn’t say all homosexuals were selfish hedonists. Read the quote again: “The essence of … family life remains procreation. If we embrace homosexuality as a proper basis for marriage, we are saying that it’s possible to have a marriage state that in principle excludes procreation and is based simply on the premise of selfish hedonism.”

He said those promoting same-sex marriage are advocating a lifestyle choice based on selfish hedonism. This may seem like splitting hairs to those embracing the same-sex marriage program ? as most of my colleagues in the press do. However, they are two entirely different statements. Every major news organization in the world unfairly accused Alan Keyes of saying something he didn’t say. In other words, they lied. They lied big time. They twisted. They distorted. They even put words in his mouth.

It all depends on what Keyes meant by “Of course she is”

Or we can look back at his later comments:

NEW YORK?Illinois GOP chairwoman Judy Baar Topinka said today that her party?s nominee for the U.S. Senate, Alan Keyes, should apologize for what she called his ?idiotic? statement that vice presidential daughter Mary Cheney and all homosexuals, are ?selfish hedonists.?

But Keyes refused to back down today, saying he was merely stating what he believes is the truth, as he would to his own daughter if she engaged in lesbian acts.

?If my own daughter were a homosexual or lesbian, I would love my daughter, but I would tell her she was in sin,? Keyes said.

Keyes first made the remarks Monday night in his interview with a satellite radio network geared toward gays and lesbians. Keyes emphasized it was a reporter, not he, who brought up the name of Mary Cheney, who the vice president has publicly acknowledged is gay.

?I did not personalize this,? Keyes said, blaming the media for inserting Cheney?s name into his academic discussio

So can someone let me know how this isn’t about Cheney’s daughter and homosexuals in general?

Reports from Party for the President

ArchPundit September 6, 2004 1 Comment

In comments:

After ranting for about 15 minutes against gay people, the woman introducing Keyes called his candidacy “a finger in the dyke of decadence.” The double meaning, as far as I can tell was completely unintentional and completely hilarious, at least to me. The actual republicans in the room were too wrapped up in their hate-fest to notice, perhaps.

Truth About Keyes has more

Party for the President

ArchPundit September 2, 2004 4 Comments

Remember everyone, Alan Keyes is hosting a Party for the President tonight at the Chicago Hilton

It seems like a strange event for Keyes given his past work making sure to say,

I Am Not A Bush Republican

Because, you know that Bush guy is sort of a leftist

Instead of the promised attempt to rein in government domination of education, we have an education bill that ramps-up federal funding, increases federal control, and was cooperatively stripped of all elements of support for genuine school choice and local control.

By aggressively defending racial preferences before the Supreme Court, the administration has directly betrayed those of its supporters who naively trusted it to pursue the unifying goal of a color blind nation.

Unlike the urgency and vigor of President Reagan’s program to renew the morale and strength of our military, President Bush’s program so far seems content to consolidate the disastrous cutbacks of the Clinton years.

Even when a correct step is taken, the administration seems incapable of giving, or unwilling to give, a principled and satisfactory reason. Thus, the decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol against supposed global warming caused by “greenhouse gases” was made for the sake of the economy ? as though a genuine threat of cataclysmic environmental destruction could be ignored for the sake of our pocketbook! Instead of clear and forceful assertions that the United States will not be intimidated by the latest junk-science propaganda of the hysterical, globalist, Luddite anti-liberty left, the administration says, in effect, “We can’t save the world ? it would cost too much.”

And more fun

I’ve been watching closely, and I have not seen a single serious Bush administration initiative that corresponds in reality to the agenda of liberty and of conservative principles. And meanwhile, the most successful policy of all seems to be the unrelenting GOP establishment campaign to suppress criticism of Bush administration policies by anyone trying to speak for the moral conservative voters who, by voting against Al Gore, allowed Mr. Bush to squeak into office despite losing the popular vote

Keyes Transcript

ArchPundit September 2, 2004 1 Comment

From the Herald

It’s rather bizarre. You get free media time and you talk about how the media engages in polemics and insert your own polemics inbetween.

What the reporters missed was asking him a straightfoward question about what his public policy positions were towards contraception. I’m fairly sure that answer–if anyone can get it out of him, might be as entertaining as what you get out of him when taunting him.

It’s the Ice Cream

ArchPundit September 2, 2004 8 Comments

Oberweis suggests homosexuality can be changed like his weight loss:

Not all Republicans were lambasting Keyes, however. Former Senate candidate Jim Oberweis of Aurora said Keyes could have thought through his remark, then suggested homosexuality can be changed like obesity, citing his own vast weight loss in the past year.

You know, I get the argument (disagree with it, but get it) that homosexuality is some sort of choice or aberrant behavior–but like weight loss?

Trib Has Fun With Keyes

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It’s just the SCLM at it again though….

Then again, is all of that the stuff of Alan Keyes’ candidacy? Or is his candidacy about Alan Keyes, himself?

Meanwhile, the Illinois Republican Party has managed to look steadily more foolish. Its convention delegates have been reduced to wondering why Keyes spends so much time studying his dance card of scheduled media interviews instead of chatting with them.

No surprise there. Every cuckolded spouse has to sort out feelings of resentment.

Until someone consults a divorce attorney, though, this marriage uneasily proceeds. With one likely outcome. As Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday about Republican prospects for retaining a majority in the Senate: “I think it’s clear we lose Illinois.”

The only surprise to me is that it took nearly a month for him to fully implode, but really, anyone who followed his performances in 1996 and 2000 had to know this would happen.

The Illinois GOP didn’t get Sam Brownback or Rick Santorum, they got a full on theatrical nutcase who thinks running a campaign is a teaching moment to condescend to the press.

As he moved to a new place to take reporters’ questions, his spokeswoman suggested he had taken enough questions. He disagreed, telling her, “This is a teaching moment.”

Even better, he was insulting to the delegates and IL GOP officials there:

After days of criticism that he had not addressed the Illinois delegates, Keyes finally made his speech Wednesday morning, hijacking the podium from DuPage County Board Chairman Robert Schillerstrom, who had only asked for a round of applause for Keyes. Realizing Keyes intended to speak, Schillerstrom admonished him, futilely, to “Please make it very brief.”

Building up to his trademark high-decibel fever pitch, Keyes shouted, “We shall deal with the challenge that is being mounted today to the family structure throughout our country: Gay marriage activists who are demanding that we should take marriage off the foundation of procreation, child rearing, responsibility to the future, that is the true heart of marriage and place it on a basis of selfishness, pleasure-seeking and self-fulfillment.”

The thing about meeting and spending time with the members of the Illinois Delegation is all of them go back to their communities where they can

A) Work hard for a guy who impressed them and gave them some inspiration

or

B) Determine that in the small amount of time he deigned to address them he told them what they should do and rudely hijacked the meeting he lost any potential support he might have gained.

And, of course, it’s now up to Barack Obama to defend the Vice President’s family

Keyes’ Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barack Obama, addressed the issue after a speech at the Illinois AFL-CIO convention in Rosemont. “I have strong disagreements with Vice President Cheney on a whole host of policy issues, but I respect the love he has for his daughter, and I think that it’s never appropriate to make the sort of comments that have been made,” Obama said. “I think it’s going to be up to the Republican Party to figure out whether they reflect an inclusive and generous spirit, or whether they want to reflect some of the bitterness we’ve been hearing lately.”

It’s a perfect response because it defends a Republican while attacking Keyes in a way that most voters will view as positive. That is some stategery that Keyes is showing.

DeClue Objection

ArchPundit September 2, 2004 2 Comments

Wow, way wrong–guy is a Republican who wanted to be the Senate nominee.

Here is the front page of the filing in .tif format.

DeClue is claiming racial discrimination against the State Central Committee and is upset they didn’t interview him for the position.

He’s a gadfly–nothing to see here folks, move along.

Chillinois smelled it from the earlier story