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Michael Steele On Keyes

ArchPundit September 6, 2004 1 Comment

Beautiful

Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who has been a rising star in the party, never touched on the Keyes campaign despite evoking Keyes’ opponent Barack Obama’s name in his speech on Tuesday.

Steele quipped that Obama gave a “moving defense of the conservative principles of the Republican Party” in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in July.

“I won’t comment on Ambassador Keyes’ decision to run the race that he is running in Illinois,” Steele said in an interview. “He has made a very strategic decision. Maybe he sees something in polling trends that I don’t see. I don’t know. I can’t comment on that.”

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?