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CNN & WJSL

ArchPundit August 11, 2004 2 Comments

So, have to give it to Keyes, when he says something most people would find embarrassing and over the top and is called on it, he doesn’t shrink from it. This morning on CNN when called on the Slaveholder line they showed him saying it and then they showed Obama responding. Obama responded slowly, surprised it was this wacky this quickly, and actually twitched and then said the bit about Keyes needing to look to Republican Party leaders about whether such language is appropriate.

Keyes then defended the quote and in effect reiterated it saying he doesn’t have to look to his party because he (Keyes), knows his heritage. He didn’t just embrace the quote, he grabbed on it and wrestled it to the ground.

KJSL was a bit more interesting, and foreshadowing of what is to come. When asked if he would ever campaign for another Republican who was pro-choice or endorse them, he unequivocally said no and said such Republicans were morally inferior.

The implications of this are clear–if he doesn’t want to work for pro-choice Republicans, why the hell should they work for him? Social conservatives who are backing Keyes now face a situation where they want others to work for this guy, but this guy is unwilling to work for others in his own Party.

The New Keyes Abode

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Is available from the Cook County Assessor

Vasyl pointed this out in comments–anyway to find ownership–I’m just curious.

In comments is the answer–given it’s not a political figure, I’m not putting it on the front page.

I Hear A Tomb Creaking

ArchPundit August 9, 2004 4 Comments

Sigh, having grown up in the area where Lincoln rode the circuit, this is depressing

Later, speaking to reporters, Keyes likened himself to the nation’s 16th president. He said mid-19th Century voters in central Illinois looked at Lincoln “in terms of the character that he offered to his fellow citizens,” rather than in terms of his Kentucky roots.

Things we will never see:

Plaques commemorating where Keyes slept or high prices for his writings.

We should be expecting a rather gaunt skeleton to be filing for slander against Keyes very soon. I’d rather expect that the skeleton can still represent himself.

Table For One!

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I’m stealing, but only a couple folks know from where:

Looper Leader Board:

They found the most eloquent black Catholic Republican the world has ever seen.

The Jake and Elwood Campaign

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It’s Clearly a Mission from God

“the victory is for God”

Oh, Steve

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From Sunday

Desperate to find someone to compete against Harvard-educated Obama, the Republicans “needed to find another Harvard-educated African American who had some experience on the national political scene,” said Republican state Sen. Steven J. Rauschenberger. “We need that because the Democrats have made an icon out of Barack Obama. The only way to fight back is to find your own icon, and that is not an easy thing to do.”

Keyes Debt From 2000

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Is available here

And now the Alan Keyes Blog

ArchPundit August 9, 2004 1 Comment

Right here

Registered to Alexander Brunk–one of the guys who had the affirmative action bake sale. Pics available here

Leader Board FUn

ArchPundit August 9, 2004 4 Comments

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.