Dr. Alan Keyes Blasts Sen. John McCain

A liberal McCain debates a conservative Keyes

On Thor Tolo’s KGNW radio show in Seattle, WA (Transcript) earlier this month interviewed Ambassador Alan Keyes, who is also running for President this year, Dr. Keyes made very insightful statements about Senator John McCain.

By the way, Keyes is the best candidate in either party in the race for President, but is virtually ignored by the main stream media, his own party and even by many conservatives, who are more in agreement with Keyes than any other Republican candidate. However, he lacks the organization and resources to advance his candidacy sufficiently enough to be competitive. Unfortunately like Fred Thompson, he also started too late in his run for President.

He is polar opposite on the political continuum of Senator Barack Obama. The Republican elite did not support his run for Senate in Illinois when he ran against Obama there. Whereas Keyes is a true conservative, Obama is an extreme socialist.

On Tolo’s radio show Keyes declared, “Where he (McCain) betrayed conservatism in the name of bipartisanship, but actually in the name of trying to serve his own presidential ambition. And that includes the McCain-Feingold bill, a direct assault on freedom of speech, on the ability of conservative grassroots organizations to raise money, on their ability to communicate with the electorate. He has made a determined effort to shut down true democratic, self-government in this country, so that people can't organize, can't raise money, can't associate, and can't communicate about the records of their representatives. And that kind of assault is a deadly blow against the possibility of self-government and constitutionalism in America.

"And we're just supposed to forget about it now, and listen to his words that his pollsters tell him he's got to say to please and placate people, but I don't think people are that stupid. I really don't. The same is true of the border security issue. He fought tooth and nail against the Minutemen and others who wanted to see the barriers put up and border assured. Instead, he promoted an amnesty bill that would have devastated the sovereignty of the American people and would have produced demographic changes that confirm the invasion that, in effect, has taken place on our nation's territory and soil. And now he wants us to believe, "Oh, I'm in favor of strong border security, because I know you people won't vote for me if you know the truth." Are we that stupid? Have we really become that gullible as a people that we let these politicians change their words and will ignore their actual work and record in the process? I hope not, and don't think so.

"Other conservatives fought hard to get good judicial nominees set up there, and this guy, looking to refurbish or build up his reputation for bipartisanship, torpedoed their efforts to get good conservative justices through and joined hands with the Teddy Kennedys of the world to defeat the effort.

"This is not soon to be forgotten, by people who understand what it takes, the sacrifices that have been involved in trying to elect good solid conservative majorities in the Senate and the House, only to see them betrayed because of the actions of people like John McCain.

"So, I find it entirely implausible that good hearted and good conscienced conservatives are suddenly going to forget that whole record, which in point of fact means that he's been moving in a direction indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton. The only difference will be the label.”

Keyes goes on to say that he would not support McCain if he is the Party’s nominee. He also hinted that disenfranchised conservatives may need to move in the direction of a third party in order to provide the electorate with a true alternative to the similar policies of the current two main political parties. The McCain candidacy and apparent GOP support does not bode when for the conservative element who previously formed the base of the GOP. The voice of conservatism is now being thwarted in the Republican Party as it has for so long been the case in the Democrat Party.