Is Alan Keys Nuts or am I missing something...

[iceman_419]

I understand that Keys went to Harvard, but whenever I hear him speak I can't help but think he is either nuts or stupid. For example when he was talking about abortion he compared it to slavery and said that the Dec. of Independance freed "his people" from slavery. Now I do not have a degree from Harvard, but I sure as heck know that the Dec. of Indep. has nothing to do with slavery. Also I don't know how he plans on winning with just the abortion issue. It is so 1970's. Infact most of the things Keys says I don't understand. Did he really go to Harvard? And if so how the heck did he get in?

[AmerDem]

1. In many ways Keyes is like shrub

They both feel they were put on this earth to carry out the work of GOD, as if they were prophets.

[Gman]

2. Keyes is being paid handsomely to do this

but yes, he's nuts. But not that crazy that he won't be sure to be paid. Keyes is a con-man. That's all. He's more than happy to take advantage of being Black and use it to take the White man Republican party and right wing's money.

Keyes is an extremely shrewed con man. That's all.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Simply put a less crude version of Don King. n/t

[Ruffhowse]

3. Just plain nuts

[thedecline]

4. I'm pretty sure he's just lost his mind

I don't know for sure if he went to Harvard -- I'll just assume so, since one can be highly educated and still be insane and evil (William Pierce, a prominent white supremacist and associate of the American Nazi Party, had a Ph.D in physics) -- but Alan Keyes sure seems to have lost his mind lately, moreso than usual. His comments about how being pro-choice is the "slave-holder's position" just mystify me.

[barb162]

11. my guess on the analogy

is a slaveholder can kill his/her slaves and a woman can kill a fetus. (or the "preborn babies" or the "unborn children" or, or, or as the social conservatives like to say). He has a very odd speaking style which I think contributes to people suspecting he might seem crazy. But I am convinced he is not crazy. His ego is positively enormous, bigger than any politician I can think of, off the top of my head. Thousands can boo him, he can lose one race after another, but it seems to just roll off his back. Maybe the fame thing is a huge motivator for him or he just loves to hear himself talk???

[Zynx]

5. He's nuts and annoying as hell.

[carpetbagger]

7. He makes more $ than I ever will.

Fame, popularity (at least in the circles and segments he targets).

He's not nuts at all. He has some ideas inconsistant with American values, but the people who are nuts in this case are the leaders of the Illinois GOP. They should have conceded the election by running some nobody who they think might benefit in the future by getting the name recognition and experience of running a statewide campaign. Instead they conceded the election by thinking that people actually agree with their most radical ideas, thus accelerating their fall to electoral irrelevence.

I hope this provides a cautionary tale for swing voters in southern Wisconsin and across the Mississippi. It pulls the plug on the "Ted Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat" meme.

[iceman_419]

8. So..

he is also an opportunist. Instead of Alan Keys we can call him Alan King a la Don King. Those two seem to have a lot in common. Also, if Keys did go to Harvard than I'm happy, because it shows that anyone can get in.

[Terran]

9. I think Keyes is a very smart man, but

he is what used to be called an "egghead"--TOO intellectual for his political good, to point of being obtuse and obscure.

[iceman_419]

10. He's more like an Orio

Black on the outside and white on the in.

[Terran]

13. That's "Oreo", and you may be right.

A Black republican, and all...I think he's more complicated than that, however.

[lunarboy13]

12. Keyes is nuts...

Yes, he's a bright guy, but so was Ted Bundy.

And if he thinks that the Declaration of Independence freed "his people", I think there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of "his people" who would strenuously disagree with him as they were in bondage from the time of the Declaration (1776) to the end of the Civil War and the countrywide acceptance of the Emancipation Proclaimation in 1865.