  Courtesy of urlLink People For the American Way,  August 2004 Alan Keyes,  a right- wing pundit and former presidential and senatorial candidate who lives in Maryland,  is reportedly considering a run for the U. S.  Senate on the Republican Party ticket in Illinois.  Here,  in his own words,  is a sampling of Alan Keyes  record and rhetoric.  Keyes on Running for Office in another state in 2004:  Former GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes told Illinois Republicans Monday that he is " open to the idea"
 of taking on the Democrat in the U.
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 Senate race .  Keyes lives in Maryland.  Chicago Sun Times,
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GOP wooing Keyes to take on Obama,  August 3,  2004 Keyes on Running for Office in another state in 2000:
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And I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there.  So I certainly wouldn't imitate it.  Fox News,
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Special Report with Brit Hume,  March 17,  2000 Alan Keyes on principle in 2004:
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I do not take it for granted that it's a good idea to parachute into a state and go into a Senate race,  he said before meeting the Republican leaders.
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As a matter of principle,  I don't think it's a good idea.  Chicago Tribune,
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GOP Wants Keyes,  August 5,  2004 Alan Keyes on principle in 1996:
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This must be a terrible feeling,  Keyes tells his would- be supporters.
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You make a decision based on expediency,
 and it doesn't work.  And then you are left without expediency and without principle.  With nothing.  This is sad,  I never want to wake up the day after an election or any time else with that emptiness in me,  knowing I have given away the things that matter most for the sake of what I thought would win and finding that I have lost and have nothing.  Minnesota Christian Chronicle,
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In ignoring Keyes,  Christian voters choose expediency over principle,
 Feb 22,  1996 Keyes on the Republican Party:  In 1992,  according to the Washington Post,  as Republican nominee in Maryland's U.
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 Senate contest that year,  Keyes denounced the national leadership of his party as racist,  saying senior GOP officials had ignored or disparaged his campaign because he is black.  GOP leaders " basically are sending the message that beyond a certain level blacks need not apply,  Keyes said.
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If I can work out in the fields,  I think I ought to be allowed to come into the house for dinner.  Washington Post,
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GOP Hopeful Says Party Is Racist"  August 14,  19 92 Keyes equates abortion and genocide:
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I think it would be a terrible shame to abandon the fate of America or the black community to the likes of people who are speaking as Julian Bond has spoken,  but more importantly,  the likes of people who have supported policies that have destroyed the black family,  that support abortion,  which is committing genocide against black people in this country with devastating demographic results that we have already seen in the course of the last census.
 Hannity and Colmes,
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Interview with Alan Keyes,  July 12,  2004 Keyes equates abortion and terrorism:
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The violation on [ sic]  innocent human life is the same whether you commit terrorism or commit abortion.  People For the American Way Foundation,
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The Vocabulary of Terror:  Anti- abortion politics since 9/ 11"  April 10,  2002 Keyes resorts to the lowest form of rhetoric and calls homosexuals Nazis:
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Hitler and his supporters were Satanists and homosexuals.  That's just a true statement.  He added that,
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The notion that is involved in homosexuality,  the unbridled sort of satisfaction of human passions"  leads to " totalitarianism,  Nazism,  and communism.  People For the American Way Foundation,
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Hostile Climate 1997,  p. 26 
