Holy Crap: Alan Keyes Edition
I hope y’all remember Alan Keyes. I think he ran for president a time or two or four and generally was well known on the speaker circuit for being a man who could babble without drooling.
Writing today in WorldNetDaily, Keyes claims that most Americans do support impeachment but are being ignored by leaders in Congress. He doubts that America can “wait three more years for the chance to end Obama’s destructive socialist coup d’état” that is creating a “vicious, dictatorial regime.”
However, he is hopeful that Jesus Christ “has the power to restore [America] to the better path of human destiny” and help “the movement to impeach and remove Obama and his cronies from office.”
Okay, first off, since when did a fair and free election become a coup d’état?
Second off, you’re asking Jesus to help you defeat your political enemies? What? Have you been reading Rick Perry’s Christmas cards?
So Jesus is trying to get Obama impeached?
Speaking of insanity …
Thanks to Carl of the Tundra for the heads up.
Good luck to the RNC on getting that lid back on the can of crazies unleashed in the Rove era. Cruz, Paul and Rubio are howling crazy, while the background players have gone full rabid.
CoC needs to have a little chat with WorldNutDaily and Ailes over at Fox about giving sanity a chance. Frothing up the Tea Bag base will not produce electable candidates.
1Keyes, thy name is insanity! No other way around it.
2Alan hasn’t gotten over the can of whoopass Obama opened on him in the Illinois Senate race of 2004.
3Alan Keyes on Jeopardy:
I’ll take Politics for $100 Alex.
How did Obama become President?
What is a coup d’état.
Oh I’m sorry, the correct answer is winning the Electoral College as well as the popular vote.
Let’s try Politics for $200 Alex.
4The result of avoiding war in Syria, the Affordable Care Act, and extending civil rights to LGBT citizens?
What is a vicious, dictatorial regime.
Sorry, that’s not the question we’re looking for here. Maybe you should choose a category you’re more familiar with Mr. Keyes?
He has part of it right. I am for impeachment, but the part he has wrong is I want it for the entire Congress AND Senate AND Supreme Court. Ahhhh heck…might as well throw in all the carpet baggers that flooded NC and is DESTROYING this state.
5If invoking Jesus doesn’t work, this guy wants you fully armed and ready….cause they’re coming for us. Classic psycho!
6Good grief. Love the Jeopardy comment.
7On other topic: did anyone in Austin listen to the radio this morning on what I thought was PBS this morning at 9 a.m.? I got to class before i found out whether the show was a spoof or real. If it’s real and I were a betting woman, I’d bet that the K. bros have struck again. But then one never knows.
I’m an atheist, but even I am offended when people like Keyes create a God/Jesus in their own image and claim Their support in advancing a petty, partisan, bile-ridden agenda.
Isn’t it a lovely coincidence that Keyes’ God agrees with Keyes 100%, thus freeing Keyes from making any efforts to lead a better life and giving him time to nag others for their perceived transgressions.
8Speaking as a woman, I consider the “vicious, dictatorial regime” to be that of the Right, which has made considerable headway in destroying women’s rights to manage their own reproduction as they see fit, has made inroads on the right to vote for women and minorities, opposes equal pay for women, opposes public assistance for poor women and their children, demonizes single mothers, and would clearly like to make women once more legally bound to male relatives or husbands for life.
That’s what I call vicious and dictatorial.
That and a lot of other things the Right does and wants to do.
I don’t think wanting people to have fair wages, decent housing, and medical care is “vicious and dictatorial.”
And I don’t think Jesus is going to be giving Mr. Keyes much help.
9Rick – Excellent, just excellent!
LynnN — It’s the Kristian thing to do.
10Perhaps Mr. Keyes has confused President Obama with Governor Christie?
11@ Elizabeth … Yes and Amen … I agree with all the comments but Elizabeth hit it for me!!
12Like most of what he says, Keyes’s claim about Americans wanting Obama impeached has been pulled from his own hindquarters. PollingReport.com has not a single poll on the subject.
Just the facts, ma’am.
13Elizabeth and Marcia, maybe we can form a band. Decent wages, decent living conditions, decent education, on and on. AMEN!!!
14Marge Wood, Elizabeth and Marcia, if you’d like a decent baritone to sing back up vocals for your band, I’m your guy. My wife, Jane, says I can even dance.
In all seriousness, having seen where the Republican boys have taken us, and where the Teathug infants would troll, am all in favor in the ladies taking the lead. Maria Shriver is making nearly as much sense as Jane.
For a progressive and green sustainable future, it’s time the ladies are given a bigger voice. Unlike Paul Ryan with his gohmert blank page budget, Patty Murray got it done.
15Choose Alan. Either socialist OR dictatorial.
16“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
17(from Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott; on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this quote to “my priest friend Tom”)
Keyes is still smarting after all these years after Obama kicked his crazy butt in the senatorial election—huh?
18These people need to look up the word sedition.
19It is a very small comfort to know crazy knows no color barriers.
20If anyone cares, I’m an alto … LOL
I believe it will be a band of women across this Nation that will carry both the mid-term and the primary elections!! We’ve witnessed what the men have done to this great country of ours, now it’s time for the women to come in and clean up their messes … just like we’ve always done!!
21And Politics for $400, Alex?
This carpetbagger lost BIG time to Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate race which launched his national career.
Who is Alan Keyes!
I was a RINO at the time, and met Keyes at our county GOP golf outing. He’s a tiny little dude, so I’m guessing a whole bunch of Napoleon syndrome is going into his particular brand of nuttiness.
During his big speech on an outdoor platform, I positioned myself up the hill from the area, close to the beer window, and watched the crowd. Within 10 minutes of the start of his speech, he had insulted womanhood enough that the women, REPUBLICAN women, were getting up and leaving.
I just sipped my beers and grinned to myself, gloating in the gloaming.
22How is a dead guy [Jesus] suppose to help restore anything?
23In the alternate reality of current Republicanism, there’s a seemingly unlimited market for anything anti-Obama or anti-Democrat be it a black politician or a climate denier. That climate is political is just another sign of R brains collectively operating post voltage trauma.
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