2000 GOP Presidential primary candidate and 2004 joke Alan Keyes has filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC.   In 2000, I was an Alan Keyes supporter because I agreed with just about everything he said.  I actually appeared on the ballot in my New York Congressional District for him - we have a unique system in which voters cast ballots for delegates rather than candidates.  I thought he understood family values.

Then in 2005 he threw his daughter out of the house and cut her off because she was a lesbian.  I can’t speak for any of the other authors on this blog, but to me that says that he does not understand the Christian values that he preaches.  I think it would’ve been totally legitimate if he did not allow his daughter to have her girlfriend over to the house, if he refused to provide money for her dates, or if he expected her to leave in her late teens because he considered that time for her to go off on her own.  That was not the case, though.  Instead, his actions were a direct result of her homosexuality and went far beyond dealing with the problem.  Failing to consider her a person first, his daughter second, and a lesbian third (at highest), Keyes failed to recognize the God-given human dignity of his daughter.

I am not a supporter of gay rights, but I also do not think that a person’s sexual orientation somehow supercedes her personhood.  I regret that I supported Keyes in 2000, and even though I agree with what he says, I could never again support him for public office.

I just spent a rather chilly week in the Twin Cities.  As I was grabbing breakfast yesterday morning (I passed on the lutefisk) at my hotel there was a rather obese man sitting not too far from me who looked very much like Michael Moore wearing an Al Franken 2008 t-shirt.  This was the only Franken campaign material I saw all week in St Paul, mind you.  It took me a few minutes to catch my breath after laughing so hard and picking myself up off of the floor.

The lunatics at Kos, as well as other American hating groups, like to tout how much money Franken has raised as some kind of proof that he will wipe the sidewalk with Norm Coleman next year.  What they don’t tell you is that a vast amount of money has come from outside of Minnesota, mainly Hollywood, and that does not translate into local support.  I am not saying Franken can’t win.  Minnesota has voted Democrat in the last seven Presidential elections and the only state to vote against Reagan in 1984, so anything is possible.  I just find a Franken victory improbable.  Minnesotans by and large are fairly well mannered people and it won’t take too many television and radio ads of Franken spewing his anti-American venom on “Air America” to turn a great deal of them off.  Furthermore, Coleman is more of a moderate Republican and thus he is very representative of the state as a whole.

The ad war began Monday, when the Times ran a full-page ad from MoveOn charging Petraeus with “cooking the books” on the Iraq war and playing on his name by asking, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” Petraeus was testifying on Capitol Hill, delivering a progress report on Iraq.

Giuliani responded Friday with his own ad in the Times; he attempted to link Clinton to the attack on Petraeus. He also launched an Internet ad against Clinton on his campaign Web site and told voters in Tulsa, Okla., that Clinton should apologize to Petraeus for her “venomous attack.”

“You do not honor the troops by attacking their general at a time of war,” Giuliani said, repeating criticisms he has made since Clinton joined Democrats and some Republicans in questioning Petraeus’ more positive assessment of the war.

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This is a good move on Giuliani’s part. I am tired of Hillary playing both sides and not getting called to the floor on it. Furthermore, her slandering of a decorated General in a time of war is inexcusable, but so has been the conduct of most of the Democrat Party. Anybody with an ounce of common sense could have told you six months ago what their response was going to be over the Patraeus Report. Unless he was going to report negative news it was just going to be further juvenile attacks and bed wetting from the Democrats. I have been highly critical of the Iraq War, particularly towards Bush on this issue, and I still think we should have never gone in to begin with, but I trust the word of a decorated General who has made a career of putting his life on the line for us over the past few decades, than I do that of the President or any politician, R or D.

The Democrats’ behavior has been abominable, if not down right treasonous, and I am truly stunned how so many people in this nation can support a group that hopes for the failure of their own country just so they can win more seats in Congress and advance a Marxist agenda. I weep for the future.

“One of these allegations is that you helped Sen. Ted Stevens with remodeling his house in Girdwood, isn’t that true?” Wendt asked. “Uh, yes,” Allen said.

“In helping Sen. Stevens remodel his residence, you or Veco paid a number of bills in remodeling that residence, isn’t that true?”

“I, I, I give Ted some old furniture, I don’t think it was a lot of material,” Allen said, stammering at first. “There was some labor.”

“There wasn’t a lot of materials but you paid some labor bills that went into Sen. Stevens’s house?” Wendt continued.

“Yes,” said Allen. “It would be Veco employees.”

Does anybody really think this guy belongs in the Senate?  I am generally less supportive of primary challenges this cycle than I have been in the past due to the extremely difficult environment, but this is rediculous.  This is indefensible, and unlike Senator Craig’s problems,  is directly related to his status as a United States Senator.