Sunday, May 18, 2003

ALAN KEYES IS MAKING NOISE: Is beloved gadfly Alan Keyes thinking of challenging President Bush in 2004? Could those of us who enjoy politics as a form of entertainment be so lucky?

Based on this dispatch on Keyes' website, well, maybe. He's sounding the "Bush is abandoning religious conservatives" alarm again, and we all know where that can lead:
In 2000, Alan Keyes said that he would never abandon the GOP unless the GOP first abandoned him by abandoning its principles. According to recent news reports, there are a lot of grassroots conservatives--those who constitute the traditional "base" of the GOP -- who feel increasingly abandoned by the party.

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A year after President Bush barely sneaked past Al Gore in Florida in 2000, White House senior advisor Karl Rove admitted that the GOP's strategy nearly backfired that election year, because the GOP took the Christian grassroots for granted. As a result, the base of the party stayed home on election day in large numbers. There are indications that the Bush administration is in the process of making the same mistake twice.

Well, I can dream, right?

This blog will track all developments on this important story.

(For my account of the time I crashed Dr. Keyes' 50th birthday party, click here and scroll down.)

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