Keyes leaves GOP, looks at Constitution Party

[EveningStar]

Does anyone in his right mind care?

AP via CNN
April 15, 2008

Former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes announced Tuesday night that he has left the GOP and is considering joining the Constitution Party...
More (http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-04-16-keyes_N.htm)

[Lubbock]

Who cares where Keyes goes, just so long as he goes.

Somewhere.

Anywhere.

Away.

A long, long way away.

[EveningStar]

I suppose I should have posted this in Comedy Central.

[The_Elucidator]

Bye

[Rhino]

Does this mean that a Lierberman switch would have no effect?

[Lazarus]

hehehehe... Only if it was Senator Allen Keys... :D

[Neil Peart]

Can someone explain to me why Alan Keyes is a "moonbat?" He seems all right to me.

[Plain Old Dave]

Alan Keyes is probably one of the greatest candidates the GOP has fielded in the last 15 years. I voted for him in 2000, and would have at least considered it in 2004 and this year if he had been on the ballot (which I believe he was not here in TN).

[Rhino]

He proposed exempting two generations of blacks from income taxes as a way to solve the reparations debate. That may be the reason for some people to not like him.

I seem to remember someone saying that he took part in some kind of really stupid protest, too.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Do a FC search, there's some threads about him that have more info, but here's one good thread to start with Alan Keyes Anyone? (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=52967&highlight=Alan+Keyes).

Yes Rhino, he was excluded from a debate, so he chained himself to the front door and had to be forcibly removed by police officers, :rolleyes:

[Neil Peart]

Do a FC search, there's some threads about him that have more info, but here's one good thread to start with Alan Keyes Anyone? (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=52967&highlight=Alan+Keyes).

Yes Rhino, he was excluded from a debate, so he chained himself to the front door and had to be forcibly removed by police officers, :rolleyes:OMG that guy's a nutcase. :rotflmbo:

[Naturalized-Texan]

I suppose I should have posted this in Comedy Central.
Yep! The lousy campaign he ran against B. Hussein Obama in the senate race in Illinois is the MAIN reason that Obama is now being seriously considered by some for the presidency.

[Naturalized-Texan]

OMG that guy's a nutcase. :rotflmbo:
Yep!

[RogerFGay]

This is good and true.


"There are clear signs that our leaders no longer have an allegiance to the sovereign people of the United States," Keyes said.

"I kind of expected that on the Democrat side. .... And the Republicans are presumed to nominate somebody who is anti-Republican. It puts a lie to the label and puts me in a position where I must question my ability any longer to participate in a party that has departed from its own identity."

The Constitution Party says its mission is to limit the federal government to functions spelled out in the U.S. Constitution and "restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations."

[LivingDeadGirl]

Yep! The lousy campaign he ran against B. Hussein Obama in the senate race in Illinois is the MAIN reason that Obama is now being seriously considered by some for the presidency.

Yes!! He and the WONDERFUL Judy Barr Topinka handed Mr. Obama the seat. May they both leave the Republican party and rot in 3rd party hell!!

[Lubbock]

He proposed exempting two generations of blacks from income taxes as a way to solve the reparations debate.

I didn't even know about that.

I used to like him.

About the time he started talking in public about "Maaaaaaaash Pits" was when I think he started to run off the rails.

I just never did care for him after that.

I do think in many respects, he's brilliant.

I'll not be sorry to see him leave the Republican Party.

[Rhino]

I didn't even know about that.Well, to be totally fair, he considered it a pilot program for eliminating income tax for everyone.