Go Alan, Go!

Perenniel nutjob loser Alan Keyes, that is. He's made it official--he's in the Republican presidential race! Way cool, Alan! Force the Republican Party even farther toward the lunatic Right! Yes, Keyes doesn't think that people like Sam Brownback are conservative enough, so it's Alan to the rescue of the Sodom and Gomorrah that is modern America. Keyes perfectly represents the views of the hardest core right wing fanatics who make up the Republican base. Most Republican candidates are leery of appearing too much in bed with such voters. My DD has some thoughts here:

The fact that the front-runners are putting this crowd at arm's length reveals that they have at least an inkling of what we've known for a while: that the so-called "moral conservatives" as they like to call themselves are a fringe element in the country and are largely responsible for the losses among independents that the party has suffered. Contrary to what they like to believe, they do not have a monopoly on morality or on values. Sadly for Republicans who seek to win nationally, they are also an extremely active and vocal portion of the Republican base (McCain's HQ phone lines have reportedly been tied up with callers demanding that he appear at the debate tomorrow) and I think it's quite telling that while the Democratic candidates flock to their base, the mainstream Republican candidates are fleeing from theirs.

Well said. Yes, contrary to their fairy tales of moral superiority, too many so-called "Values Voters" are perfectly OK with the U.S. using torture. They're fine with bombing and killing nasty brown people. Many of them call people who look like Alan Keyes "nigger" in private. Many hate immigrants not because they're illegal but because they're dark skinned. They don't mind that 20% of U.S. children live in poverty. They are mostly indifferent to the 47,000,000 without health insurance. They fully support a president who has conducted a tragically unnecessary war that has killed, maimed, or traumatized tens of thousands of brave young Americans. They are the spiritual representatives of all that is worst in us--our hatreds, our prejudices, our indifference to the suffering of other people, our raging intolerance. They want America to be a theocracy. They despise science. They hate our Constitution and would be delighted to live in a right wing religious dictatorship. Many would gladly see their opponents censored or killed. They would imprison or exterminate gays as well. Yes, these are "Alan's People", all right. And I say he's welcome to them. The more the Democrats can wrap these wretched, lunatic right wingers around the throats of the major Republican candidates, the more crushing the victory the Democrats will win in 2008.