Did you know who Alan Keyes was before this debate?

[SonicInfinity]

Honestly, I had heard ZERO mention of him before this debate. I saw him in there and was like, "who's that?!"

 

[jumpyg1258]

John Cox is also running in this race. Theres quite a few people on the Republican ticket that usually do not get invited to the debates.

 

[Paulitician]

Duh. We has in the first PBS debate and he was also included in the Values Voters debate.

 

[Bradley in DC]

Univision lists 20 Republicans running:

http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?secid=4381

 

[osofaux]

I'd heard of him but had never seen him before this debate. All I can say about him is... Yikes.

 

[SonicInfinity]

Univision lists 20 Republicans running:

http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?secid=4381

GOOD GRIEF. Half of those I've never even seen before.

 

[Luther]

He ran for U.S. Senate against Barack Obama in 2004 and managed to get about 15 percent of the vote.

 

[garyallen59]

Keyes was the "genuine chocolate face" from Borat

 

[JimDude]

John Cox is also running in this race. Theres quite a few people on the Republican ticket that usually do not get invited to the debates.

John Cox dropped out

 

[Benaiah]

I was going to vote for Alan Keys in the 2000 primary. But it was already decided that Bush was the victor by the time it came to my state.

 

[mpython77]

I personally thought he dropped out....... surprise surprise

 

[Paul4Prez]

He received 14% of the vote in Iowa in 2000, and finished third. It would have been a travesty for them not to invite him to a debate in Iowa.

 

[jlink7]

I actually feel sorry for the guy... he did have some decent points last night and I feel that the moderator was clearly avoiding him entirely on many questions. I don't blame him for "busting the time limit" when it was his turn because he so rarely got to speak.

 

[fluoridatedbrainsoup]

Alan Keyes stumps for Ron Paul at 7:48 in the video at this link - it's intense: http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=211549

 

[BMyers]

I was going to vote for Alan Keys in the 2000 primary. But it was already decided that Bush was the victor by the time it came to my state.

Supported him in 2000 as well.

-Bill

 

[hellah10]

i supported keyes in 2000... i think he is a legit politician... i have no beef with him, but i was not happy that he cut off dr. paul yesterday.

he's well educated and has alot of experience in diplomacy

 

[AisA1787]

I thought Keyes was very well spoken, made a lot of great points, and was honest. However, I'm afraid that some of his talk about religion and morals, and how it's critical to the republic, fell on deaf ears or was dismissed as simple preaching. George Washington held many of the same beliefs, and stated them publicly.

"Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

-George Washington, 1796 Farewell Address

It's a shame that people like Huckabee use religion as a justification for dictatorship, and it turns a lot of people off to the religious history of our country.

 

[hawks4ronpaul]

I knew of Keyes in the 1990s.

The 1996 GOP primary had

Keyes (somewhat libertarian/Constitutionalist),

Steve Forbes (flat tax), and

Phil Gramm (PhD Economics, wrote "Laissez-Faire and the Optimum Quantity of Money." Economic Inquiry 12 (March 1974), deficit hawk who co-authored balance budget acts that made the '90s "balanced budgets" possible)

but the party chose the "tax collector for the welfare state," Bob Dole.

http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/

 

[Dave Pedersen]

He sure is an articulate prima donna. Too bad he is so full of himself.

 

[jumpyg1258]

John Cox dropped out

Awww "Mr. Vote For Me Cause Im A Corporate CEO" droped out? Shucks. But seriously that what his whole campaign was centered on, that he was a CEO and that made him qualified to be president.

As far as Alan Keyes, hes a joke plain and simple. He tells us to run our lives like how God wanted but yet has disowned his own daughter. Hes for a Christian Theocracy, not a Democratic-Republic.