{"id":1852,"date":"2007-09-17T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/09\/keyes-jumps-in.html"},"modified":"2007-09-17T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T10:49:00","slug":"keyes-jumps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/09\/keyes-jumps-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Keyes jumps in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-life voters now have another choice for president &#8212; and a Catholic, at that.  But, given his track record, on a hunch, I&#8217;d say his chances are slim-to-none.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postchronicle.com\/news\/breakingnews\/article_212103814.shtml\">Alan Keyes<\/a>: <i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Ru6W-HmoXyI\/AAAAAAAAA6Q\/FtZlwj1jIXA\/s1600-h\/3%5B1%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Ru6W-HmoXyI\/AAAAAAAAA6Q\/FtZlwj1jIXA\/s320\/3%5B1%5D.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  Alan Keyes, a Marylander who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, has formally entered the 2008 White House campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Keyes, 56, announced on his Web site, RenewAmerica, he filed his candidacy Friday with the Federal Election Commission. <\/p>\n<p>He told radio talk show host Janet Parshall he was unmoved by what he called the lack of moral courage the other candidates had demonstrated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one thing I&#8217;ve always been called to do is to raise the standard &#8230; of our allegiance to God and his authority that has been the foundation stone of our nation&#8217;s life,&#8221; said Keyes. <\/p>\n<p>Keyes, who held several positions in the U.S. State Department during the Reagan administration, ran for the U.S. Senate from Maryland in 1998 and 1992. <\/p>\n<p>During the 1996 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he was briefly detained by police in Atlanta after trying to force his way into a candidates&#8217; debate without an invitation. <\/p>\n<p>Illinois Republicans recruited him in 2004 to run against the Democratic candidate &#8212; and eventual winner &#8212; Barack Obama for a vacant U.S. Senate seat. <\/p>\n<p>Keyes accused Obama during the campaign of taking the wicked and evil position on issues like abortion.  <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> You can visit his website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.us\/\">right here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>He may make the GOP debates a little livelier.  But that&#8217;s about it.  To my knowledge, Keyes has a perfect track record of having never won an election for anything, anywhere.  Given the way the primaries are being front-loaded, this could be a short candidacy.  Very short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-life voters now have another choice for president &#8212; and a Catholic, at that. But, given his track record, on a hunch, I&#8217;d say his chances are slim-to-none. 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