Did you know who Alan Keyes was before this debate?

[acstichter]

There's a video from this year in which Keyes busts on Ron Paul's foreign policy. Keyes is a big war hawk and want to take it to the Middle East in a big way.

 

[Todd]

Yes.
His views are pretty good, but he is preachy and comes across as always.... "Acting!...Thank Yaw".

 

[dvictr]

Univision lists 20 Republicans running:

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

great our main source is a spanish language website

 

[Shooterman]

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

He also ran in the 2000 PUB Primaries before Baby Bush got the nomination. He is really a very sharp and intelligent person. He, however, should not have been in that debate.

 

[Shooterman]

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.

As it turned out, more is the pity.

 

[Omnis]

I learned how crazy Alan Keyes was at the ValuesVoters debate.

 

[Primbs]

Keyes got 14% in Iowa in 2000 against Bush. He is probably going to pull votes away from somebody.

 

[ConstitutionGal]

Keyes got 14% in Iowa in 2000 against Bush. He is probably going to pull votes away from somebody.

Hopefully, Huck and Fred

 

[Ridiculous]

I thought Keyes was very well spoken

I find it funny that people say he is so well spoken about educated black men. You never hear anyone say he is so well spoken about a white dude.

Chris Rock on white folk and Colin Powell: "... he speaks so well. He's so well spoken. He speaks so well. 'Speaks so well' is not a compliment!!! 'Speaks so well' is something you say about retarded people who can talk!"

 

[idiom]

Actually most of the white guys stutter and have limited vocabs.

After Bush, being well spoken is a requirement. Maybe its the only requirement they think Alan Keyes meets.

 

[abruzz0]

Haha. I've known about Alan Keyes 10 times longer than Ron Paul. I thought Alan was tremendous in the debate, in a comedic sort of way. He had no real business up there, but at least he didn't talk like dead weight. It provided some entertainment. Hell, Alan and Ron Paul are the only ones who talk like they're human.

 

[noztnac]

Alan Keyes belonged in that debate more that any of the candidates except for Ron Paul. I don't always agree with him but he is principled and honest. That's more than I can say for the rest of them.

John Cox is also a great guy. Unfortunately our system requires more than being an honest person with a respect for the constitution. Actually, in the case of Romney, Thompson, Giuliani, and Huckabee it simply requires something altogether different i.e. money and a willingness to cave in to the system.

 

[Eleutheros]

The first time I heard of Alan Keyes was in a Youtube parody video called "Condilicious" when this "actor" portraying Alan Keyes raps:

Lis-ten up yall, 'cause Con-di's pissed
She's ti-red of you I-raq pes-si-mists

To this day, every time I hear Alan Keyes name, that rap always comes to mind.

 

[Johncjackson]

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.

Same here. I no longer agree with a lot of his views, but he was the small govt, anti-IRS candidate in 2000. He also easily won every debate against GWB.

In fact, 2000 primary was when it really hit me that debate performance doesn't matter that much. Bush was the chosen one and could barely hold his own in the debates. Keyes was excellent and got 0 coverage. He was considered "fringe" in 2000 for the same reasons RP is now. Though I think perhaps Keyes has earned the label more since then.

 

[FireofLiberty]

Keyes kicked his daughter, Maya, out for being a lesbian and cut her off. Yet, every chance he gets, he shills about "family values" and the "erosion of the family unit" or whatever.

 

[Kingfisher]

Keyes is probably closer to R.P. in Values than any of the rest

 

[Alex]

I knew the name Alan Keyes as the guy who lost to Obama in the Senate race. First time I actually saw him was the PBS Debate

 

[jwbowman]

Debate

I saw him put the smack down on Alan Dershowitz several years ago in a debate that pitted Religion (championed by Keyes) against Atheism (championed by Dershowitz -- right before he put his human rights legal activities on hold to be the first to champion the use of torture).

 

[Oliver]

I saw him in two debates - the last one was "Des Something"
and the other one was on PBS some months ago...

 

[user]

Tancredo, Buchanan, and now Keyes. It's still incredible to me that there are RP supporters who also like those people.