Alan Keyes is mulling over another opportunity to embarrass himself with a 2008 presidential bid.
Sources close to Keyes confirmed that he has begun to talk to some of his longtime advisers about a run. But they said he did not direct RenewAmerica, a grassroots activist group he chairs, to send in the fee.
Keyes twice lost races for Senate in Maryland with 38 percent and 29 percent in the late 1980s and early 1990s, failed presidential bids in 1996 and 2000, and he was sacrificed by the Illinois State Republican Party as the carpetbagger candidate to challenge then-State Senator Barack Obama for the open Senate seat. He got 27 percent.
RenewAmerica has started an active Draft Keyes movement through its political action committee. The PAC paid for a table at the Iowa Republican Party straw poll in Ames last month, and Mary Parker Lewis, Keyes’s long-time chief of staff, wrote in an e-mail that she would probably rejoin RenewAmerica soon.
But, she, said, “To date, I would say he has only very provisionally, only in principle, approved their efforts as a moral conservative voter mobilization,” Lewis said.
The political action committee launched to draft Keyes is called “We Need Alan Keyes for President.”
4 Responses to “Alan Keyes Mulling 2008 Bid”
Run, Alan, Run!
Can we start a Draft Alan Keyes Blogspot?
Run, Alan, Run!
RUN ALAN RUN.I WOULD VOTE YOU IN PYRMARIES INSTEAD OF RON PAUL .
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See – I would disagree with you about Keys embarrassing himself because when you have someone who embarrasses himself so frequently it sets the bar quite high for actual embarrassment – it really sets a new level and my guess is that he will simply embarrass himself in the usual way
Left by Ally
September 9, 2007 at 5:34pm