If at first you don’t succeed…

September 19, 2007

run for office until you are blue in the face.

Any mention of Alan Keyes brings me back to the 2000 election when there was a GOP debate held at my college. Though I was unable to secure a ticket to the event (read: not a registered Republican) I remember watching the event on TV, listening to Mr. Keyes describe the AIDS pandemic in terms of a crisis of sexual morality. Ah, the world was such a simple place back then. That’s probably why I voted for Ralph Nader.

3 Responses to “If at first you don’t succeed…”


  1. On the other end (sort of) of that spectrum is this guy. Andrew and I were going to film a documentary on him. But then we lost our youthful idealism and earnestness and got married.


  2. I also vaguely remember Alan Keyes running for president in 2000- I also remember a political science professor I respected essentially endorsing him. Then when he ran against Obama I was sure I’d remembered it wrong. However, once I found out that a fellow alum was coordinating Keyes’ 2004 campaign for Chicago I remembered there’s a lot of freaks at Wheaton.


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