So where's Alan Keyes???

Clout St. a Chicago Tribune local politics blog talks about Alan Keyes. Keyes was a failed Presidential Candidate and more recently a failed candidate for US Senate who was defeated by Barack Obama in 2004. This was all after he replaced another candidate who dropped out because of what was found in his divorce records. Anyway this is what he's been up to...

After getting crushed by Democrat Barack Obama in Illinois' 2004 U.S. Senate race and arguably playing a role in Obama's bid for the presidency, the imported candidate of the Republican Party, fiery Maryland resident Alan Keyes, said he would stay in the state and help rebuild the Illinois GOP.

But Keyes, who got 27 percent of the vote to Obama's 70 percent, quickly left his Calumet City rental abode after the election. For a man who acknowledged to Illinois Republicans that his campaign strategy against Obama was to say something outrageous every day, Keyes hasn't gotten a whole lot of attention ever since.

Keyes has signed up with an East Texas evangelist, Rick Scarborough, in trying to invigorate the cause of Christian conservatives who find themselves showing disaffection to the leadership nationally of the Republican Party.

Scarborough and Keyes will lead an event in Houston on Wednesday, one of several that have been planned that promote the need for Christian conservatives to stay politically active despite their unhappiness. Scarborough is the leader of Vision America and the rallies are being billed as the "70 weeks to save America campaign."

Keyes, a former GOP presidential contender, famously declared during his Illinois campaign that "Christ wouldn't vote for Barack Obama."

Things haven't changed much.

At the first event of the "70-week" group in Lufkin, Texas, earlier this month, the Lufkin Daily News reported Keyes as saying, "Barack Obama is an evil man," citing the Democrat's record on abortion.
Needless to say I'm quite happy that I'm not writing about Sen. Alan Keyes right now.

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