Leader Board FUn

The Leader Board is claiming that the neocons hate Keyes because of a critical article in the Weekly Standard. Small problem–Bill Kristol was his college roommate who and ran his first Senate campaign in Maryland and Jeanne Kirkpatrick was Keyes mentor–explaining much. For those not getting the joke, Kristol publishes the Weekly Standard.

Obviously, I’m not a big Alan Keyes fan. My last significant encounter with the former ambassador occurred at the door of a local television station in Atlanta Georgia in the spring of 1996. The station was holding a TV debate for the presidential primary and had banned Keyes, who was then running for president. My candidate, former governor Lamar Alexander, and I had the bad timing to enter the station at exactly the moment Keyes was attempting a media stunt that included chaining himself to the front door. A minor scuffle occurred and I remember the priceless look on the normally unflappable Gov. Alexander’s face when he realized that he was a split second away from becoming hopelessly chained to a frothing Alan Keyes in front a phalanx of glaring TV lights and news cameras. Zigzagging in a flash like an NFL running back, Alexander shot through the door like a rocket, evading Keyes and pulling me through in his draft alone. It was the highlight of the Alexander for President campaign in Georgia.

I’m certain Ambassador Keyes is now busily at work printing up some “Crazy Times Demand a Crazy Senator” yard signs and oiling his trusty chains for a repeat performance in Chicago this fall. Whatever element of the Illinois GOP that came up with this plan will regret the day they thought it up.