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Who Is Supporting Keyes?

ArchPundit August 7, 2004 No Comments

Thanks to a tip over at Roger Ailes in comments, I picked out Joseph Scheidler from the Renew America site and at the Leader. He’s holding “Keyes for Senate From Illinois” sign.

Who is Joseph Scheidler? Good pals with Operatoin Rescue’s Randall Terry. These aren’t anti-abortion activists, these are violent men.

For example, in Delaware, Joseph Scheidler and three other large men illegally entered a clinic, trapping the clinic administrator inside. The men put the phones on hold ? effectively cutting her off from the outside world ? and told her they were there to “case the place.” This was shortly after several clinics had been bombed. In another incident, Scheidler went to Pensacola and met with John Burt and Joan Andrews. Together, they discussed and planned an event to take place at the Ladies Center. The next day, while Scheidler was outside doing “P.R.” (he did not want to get arrested), Burt, Andrews and two others burst into the clinic, shoved the administrator to the floor and slammed an escort up against a wall. Then they went upstairs to wreck equipment. Still more evidence of force and violence came as the jury heard from a doctor who had been stalked, her house surrounded, and her life threatened. She was also physically assaulted by Monica Miller and Matt Trewhella. The jury also heard evidence of scores of blockades, which deprived people of access to the clinics, and where people were assaulted for daring to try to enter. One woman, who was going to see her doctor for postoperative surgery (surgery that in no way was related to abortion and that had been done to try and save her reproductive organs), was hit over the head with a picketer’s sign. And the jury heard more.

This guy was outside the meeting to choose Keyes as a supporter. Good people may disagree over abortion, but this kind of violence is out of line. I’d suggest the news media get Keyes on record as to his feelings about such actions. Keyes is a joke that is in many ways funny, but in other ways quite frightening.

The Old I Don’t Believe in Releasing My Tax Records Bit

ArchPundit August 7, 2004 1 Comment

Appears to be about to create another problem for the GOP:

And tax records indicate the State of Maryland in 2001 filed a tax lien on the home owned by Keyes, 54, and his wife, Jocelyn, because of $7,481 in unpaid state income taxes and penalties.

On Friday, Keyes was able to pay off the tax debt with a certified check for a little more than $152, said William Pascoe, a longtime friend of Keyes’ who is volunteering as his spokesman.

A spokesperson for the Maryland state comptroller’s office said, however, that the debt “hasn’t been satisfied,” and was unable to confirm whether Keyes had made arrangements to pay the tax debt.

The lien resulted from what Pascoe called “an erroneous tax accounting” involving payments for speeches by Keyes to a personal corporation he formed to handle money he makes as a public speaker, Pascoe said.

Bill Maher’s Take

ArchPundit August 7, 2004 3 Comments

It’s starting to look bad for Republicans. First they couldn’t find Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Then they couldn’t find weapons in Iraq. Now, they can’t find a black person in Chicago.

The Important Thing To Remember For Obama’s Team

ArchPundit August 6, 2004 3 Comments

Never get in the way of an opponent’s self-immolation. When they start to really get cooking, don’t throw any water on it. The ability to stay out of the way of Jack! was quite impressive. Just keep that up, and you’ll be just fine.

Maybe I should start a set of campaign rules…

1) Campaign workers never make news because when they do, it’s almost always bad

2) Never get in the way of a good self-immolation by your opponent.

Any more?

Just Because the IL GOP Is Participating in the Jim Jones Olympics

ArchPundit August 6, 2004 1 Comment

Doesn’t mean I have to….

Berkowitz is upset that I made fun of Keyes attempt to crash a debate.

Archpundit thinks civil disobedience is conduct unbecoming a U. S. Senate Candidate?

A quick retraction is in order.

Oh, this is rich. My good blogging friend and gung-ho, unabashedly Democratic Blogger Larry Handlin [www.archpundit.com] is now questioning Ambassador Keyes? dignity because Keyes engaged in civil disobedience [protesting the exclusionary policies with respect to Presidential Candidates who were not front-runners for a presidential candidate debate sponsored by an ABC affiliate ].

Larry is, of course, demonstrating once again that political partisans [both Ds and Rs] have no shame when it comes to making baseless partisan arguments against their opponents. But, Larry, would you really want to call one-half of your readers and about one-third of the Democratic Party, not to mention your Party?s fearless leader, undignified? I didn?t think so. So, we can expect a quick retraction?

As Thoreau said[I think]– when the laws are unjust, the place for the just is in jail. Imagine me- having to remind Archpundit Handlin of that. Who would have thunk it?

This all assumes that Keyes had a beef–but the fact is Keyes is a first class loon. That is why he was excluded and the attempt to crash it is another symptom of being a loon. The Hunger Strike was really impressive but really was a definitive moment in answering the question of whether when a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?

I’m sorry the Republican Central Committee is suffering from mass hysteria, but it’s not my fault.

If you are going to buy Dreams of My Father

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Consider following this link:

I used to use Amazon to link to good books, but it was taking too much bandwidth. But I’m not quite at the level to be paid out.

A Fine Moment of Dignity

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When Keyes was arrested for crashing a debate

It’s Not Low Hanging Fruit

ArchPundit August 6, 2004 2 Comments

It all fell off the tree already:

On Moderate Republicans:

Keyes on Moderate Republicans
?On all the matters that touch upon the critical moral issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger is on the evil side. This is a fact. A mere list of the positions he supports is enough to make this plain: abortion as a ?right,? cloning of human beings, governmental classification of citizens by race, public benefits for sexual partners outside of marriage, disrespect for property rights against environmental extremism, repudiation of the right to bear arms – no more need be said to show that this candidate is wrong where human decency, human rights and human responsibility bear directly on political issues.?

WorldNetDaily, ?Arnold?s corruption of Republican Party,? October 6, 2003

Yeah, that’ll help the down ballot races. Sure. I’m sure that moderate pro-choice women in the burbs are going to love this guy. Sure of it. Certain even.

On Abortion:

Keyes on Reproductive Choice
?The violation on [sic] innocent human life is the same whether you commit terrorism or commit abortion.?

People For the American Way Foundation, ?The Vocabulary of Terror: Anti-abortion politics since 9/11,? April 10, 2002

Definitely a uniter.

On Homosexuality:

Keyes on Homosexuality
?Hitler and his supporters were Satanists and homosexuals. That?s just a true statement.? He added that, ?The notion that is involved in homosexuality, the unbridled sort of satisfaction of human passions? leads to ??totalitarianism,? ?Nazism,? and ?communism.??

People For the American Way Foundation, ?Hostile Climate 1997,? p.26

And on black anti-semitism:

Keyes on Jews and Anti-Semitism
?The tragic and violent clashes between blacks and Jews are unhappily not the product of a unique and isolated set of circumstances. I believe that, unwittingly, Jewish supporters of the government-dominated welfare state approach to the economic and social problems of the black community helped to create the mentality that now produces anger and anti-Semitism in black neighborhoods.?

Alan Keyes, ?Our Character, Our Future,? May 2, 1996, p. 48-50