Alan Keyes

Yeah.

But like so even if he came like even if he did better than Alan Keyes.

Oh, no. Alan Keyes was a terrible candidate.

Totally forgot about Alan.

I mean, that's

And I

think, is that the year they got Alan Keyes to run? Is that who that was? Which was a disaster.

Well, Peter Fitzgerald was retiring and then Jack Ryan was the guy and he withdrew because he took his wife to a sex club and she didn't want to participate.

And then Alan Keyes was in Maryland.

He moved out to the run.

It was a disaster.

In Washington, the, the ones in Washington will be an- trying to answer those questions.

They've got three or four candidates there, uh, in Orlando, Alan Keyes, uh, Lamar Alexander, and Pat Buchanan, along with Larry King.

And then all the other candidates are in, in another studio in DC, and they're coming in, like, one or two at a time because at the same toke, time that this debate is going on, they schedule the balanced budget amendment to be voted on that night.

And tha- and that's what's gonna make this really exciting because you'll get to see that vote live in the middle of the broadcast.

Let's see what Clinton says, and then let's fight it out.

All of this preliminary jockeying, jockeying that shuts down the government, that makes us look bad, that hurts a lot of citizens, that makes politicians look ridiculous in Washington, let's put an end to it.

I'm Lamar Alexander," or, "I'm Alan Keyes," "I'm Pat Buchanan." You know, let's tell the truth.

Republicans, give them a clean bill.

Ill- The Illinois Republican Party goes to extremes to find a Senate candidate.

The new Illinois Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, and I wanna remind you, from Illinois, the Illinois candidate, is Maryland activist Alan Keyes.

[laughs] He may be most famous for his most liberal act, jumping into a mosh pit while Rage Against the Machine performed, body surfing the crowd, and exchanging body slams with a spiky-haired teen as a means of getting filmmaker Michael Moore's endorsement for president in 2000.

It was, it was a different time, kids.

It was a different time.

It was a different time.

As Moore put it, "We knew Alan Keyes was insane.

We just didn't know how insane until that moment." Insane is an adjective that voters may be hearing a lot [laughs] in association with Keyes before November 2nd.

And look, I get it.

Saying you ran for president is a resume builder, right? You can't take that away from Alan Keyes or Gary Bauer, right? Those guys can always say they ran for president.

Can

I just read his quote to you, Chuck? Because I agree with you, but John Kennedy's quote is so good.

The original Republican opponent in the general election had a messy divorce, and the details got leaked, and so that wasn't gonna work.

The Republican Party, in an attempt to try to sort of match Obama racially, ends up nominating Alan Keyes, who, uh, had run for president multiple times on the, uh, Republican ticket, but was from Maryland, so they brought in somebody from out of state to run for the seat, so it wasn't actually, like, a particularly good matchup.

Uh, but in particular, when Obama, you know, runs in the Democratic primary for, uh, for the, for the US Senate, the same community that expressed a preference for Bobby, uh, Rush over him in a congressional race saw that he actually probably was pretty well-positioned to be a good statewide candidate for office.

And so they didn't have the same qualms about voting for him as a statewide candidate.