Sore loserman/nutcase Alan Keyes says Obama will stage terror attack to prevent 2012 election

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

The latest bit of nuttery from the pathetic guy who rightfully got his ass handed to him by an unknown Barack Obama in the 2004 U.S. Senate race:

"Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes has given perhaps his most dire warning yet, saying that the Obama administration is preparing to stage terror attacks, declare martial law and cancel the 2012 elections, which is why they are demonizing their political enemies as criminals and terrorists."

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"“The minute they think they can get away with it, they will end this system of government and that is their intention,” added Keyes, noting that everyone acting as if the time we are in was just “business as usual” reminds him of the attitude of politicians in the Weimar Republic when Hitler was rising to power or eastern Europe when the Communists were taking over after the second world war."

http://www.teamsarah.org/profiles/blogs/dr-alan-keyes-warns-obama

Glowing coverage of Keyes' insane remarks comes to you via teamsarah.org, a blog dedicated to boosting the future of another of the GOP's bitter losers.

or as they put it in their "about us" section:

"Team Sarah was founded as a coalition of diverse women advancing the Sarah Palin candidacy and mobilizing voters for the McCain-Palin ticket.

There were a few kooks on the Left who said the same thing about Bush/Cheney and 2008, but the key difference here is that they were kept on the fringes, where they should have been.

Keyes is a prominent Republican. Sure, he may not garner much of a vote in the GOP primaries, but they still love him and put him out as one of their thinkers. He's a former Reagan official, had his own talk show and was recently the keynote speaker at the DC teabagging party.

Progressives strongly rejected such asinine talk.

The GOP is willing to put such dangerous rhetoric out and come just short of slapping an official stamp of approval on it.

[Journeyman]

1. Well, sounds like any number of DUers circa 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008. . .

and seemingly every day in between, right down to the babbling about Hitler.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

[Bicoastal]

6. Ah--it's good to know that Alan Keyes is just as sane as the most paranoid nutters we have on DU.

:D

[Journeyman]

11. My favorite remains the DUer who had a timeline of Hitler's life. . .

and for a few years, from 2001 to 2004 or so, would go through unbelievable mental contortions to illustrate how BushCo was "eerily paralleling Hitler's history." He saw this timeline as a sort of blueprint for BushCo perfidy, a means to plot BushCo's intent and expose their "plans," chronology be damned. It was almost comical in its absurdity . . . almost, except for the remarkable number of DUers who followed right along, convinced this fool was in possession of a "key" that would unlock the secret of all our troubles.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

18. +1,000,000 points for use of the word "perfidy."

My favorite word in the English language!

[sufrommich]

28. I think there is an anti Obama email exactly like that now. nt

[Hippo_Tron]

14. In fairness to those DUers, the paranoia had some rational basis

Bush did do more to turn this country into a police state than any other recent President and he was also put into office via a stolen election. No that doesn't mean that the paranoia wasn't ridiculous but it at least had some basis. The right wing has no rational basis for their paranoia other than made up shit like "he's a secret Muslim".

[NoSheep]

31. Thanks, Hippo_Tron. I'm still waiting to be proven wrong. n/t

[Initech]

29. Good to know that paranoia transcends political persuasions.

[dysfunctional press]

2. and of course nobody on the left EVER made the same type of prediction about bush...

:sarcasm:

i don't know HOW MANY times i heard some moran or another SWEAR that we would never have another election...:eyes:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. random people on message boards is one thing

This is a big-name Republican - one they drafted to run for Illinois senate and send around to teabag in DC last week.

You won't find any Democratic official or talking head who ever engaged in this kind of stupid talk.

Even the right's favorite boogeyman, Michael Moore, never made these kind of claims about Bush.

And the GOP will continue to put Keyes out as a spokesman. they don't just condone this kind of extremism - they actively encourage it.

[Occam Bandage]

5. Alan Keyes is not a "big-name Republican." Quick: what is the highest elected office he's held?

The answer, of course, is none. He has never held any elected office. The Republican state representative nearest to you holds more power than Alan Keyes has ever held. Keyes runs constant self-financed vanity campaigns, and loves to show up at rallies, but that doesn't make him a leader of anyone but himself.

They didn't "draft" him to run against Obama. They couldn't find anyone in-state willing to go up against Obama after Ryan imploded (after all, Ryan was losing by twenty points *before* the sex scandals came out, and he was the best thing they had going). Nobody was willing to put their careers on the line against a powerhouse Democrat. So in toddles Alan Keyes, saying, "hey, look, an open nomination for a seat in Washington. Mind if I run?"

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

17. All this proves...

...is that the Republicans are dumb enough to let their loonies run for public office whilst we prefer to keep ours in the dungeon. Under lock and key.

[dysfunctional press]

21. alan keyes is a 'big-name republican' mostly in his own mind.

when the actual repuke senate candidate jack ryan turned out to be mentally insane(i have nothing against swinging- been there, done that...but if you had 7-of-9 at home, would you be taking her to nyc to be offering her up for sharesies? i think not.) alan keyes moved to calumet city :rofl: to take mr. nine's place in the race against obama- which had more to do with the color of his skin, than any actual gop affinity for alan the k.

and as far as 'random people on message boards' is concerned- it does go way beyond that. there are lots of full websites dedicated to 9/11 conspiracy theories- and i know that i've seen some 'alan keyes'-level people on our side voicing/parroting some of those same types of ideas.

there's lunatic fringe on both sides of the political cloth.

[Occam Bandage]

4. Alan Keyes is a fringer.

He's even fringier than Dennis Kucinich is, and "zomg Bush gonna terrorist away the elections" was a pretty common viewpoint here on DU from mid-2004 until Jan. 20, 2009.

[Politicalboi]

7. It was different with Bush

We saw 2 elections stolen from us. We saw 9/11 happen and the investigation of no blame. We saw an illegal war. Some of us saw how Bush shit on our Constitution and couldn't believe he was getting away with it. We saw a dictatorship happen before our eyes. When the President does it it's not illegal. The President will interpret the law. And of all Presidents Bush who is dumber than a rock. We had more reason to suspect Martial Law with Bush. Bush and his ilk broke laws so that alone gives us a sane reason to think it.

[Berry Cool]

20. Nah, not by Mr. Keyes' lights it isn't.

See, the way he looks at it, so far the Eeevul ACORN Conspiracy to Put an Unqualified Non-US Citizen Kenyan in the White House has worked so far, so an election has been stolen. And now that president is (if you believe him) going to nationalize all the banks and redistribute all the wealth and create a socialist state out of America. As far as he is concerned, he is seeing a dictatorship happen before his eyes, too--so he believes he has perfect reason to suspect that martial law is next.

To understand the "logic" of a kook, you gotta think like a kook. And it should be readily apparent that if one is a kook, everything appears logical, even the most outlandish stuff. You simply need to view things from Keyes' angle of kookiness.

[Adsos Letter]

8. All I can say, Mr. Keyes, comes from The Book you claim to abide by...

..."Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh."

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. Al Franken had a great bit on Keyes once

where he followed him around to a few speeches and noted how Keyes would always be overcome and "cry" right on cue at the same point in his religulous text for each audience.

[Adsos Letter]

10. see my sig line...

:hi:

[bluestateguy]

12. Well, as much as I'd love to call him a nutjob (and he is)

the fact is that a lot of DUers swore that Bush would do exactly that to cancel the 2004 election.

[bridgit]

13. Alan? Stand still for a minute, I don't wanna have to run after your sorry-ass...

[and-justice-for-all]

15. Pathetic to say the least...

man those fuckers are sad pieces of shit..

[Hippo_Tron]

16. Don't worry Alan, if the Republicans nominate Sarah Palin that will assure there is no martial law

President Obama will get over 60% of the vote without even having to bother campaigning let alone declaring martial law.

[Beam Me Up]

19. No, the difference is, Bush/Cheney actually did it to get us where we are now.

n/t

[Occam Bandage]

24. There's exactly as much evidence Obama staged 9/11 as there is evidence Bush staged 9/11. nt

[BeFree]

25. Whoa dude!!

Bush ignored the warning that Obama never got.
Obama's VP was not in charge of 'Terrorism'.
Obama's FBI didn't ignore field agents reports about fliers.
Obama didn't kiss the Saudi Prince.
Obama wasn't called to testify.
Bush knew it was coming, Obama did not.

Are you ready to eat your crow, or do we really have to shove more on ya?

[Occam Bandage]

26. None of those are evidence that Bush did 9/11.

In fact, some of those are outright contrary to that theory. If 9/11 was an inside job, the government would not have provided Bush with warnings that al-Qaeda was planning an attack.

[BeFree]

30. What theory?

I presented you with facts. Occam's Razor says that if it cuts like a razor, it probably is a razor.

If 9/11 was an inside job then it wasn't the whole damn government involved. Duh!

The CIA presented bush with a scenario that came true. Bush didn't want to hear about it because he knew he was being presented with an item that he had been warned to ignore, and so he ignored it, just as he was told.

Doing what you did, trying to make any congruency between Bush and Obama, is just plain a shit bandage trying to cover the bleeding truth. Eat it.

[Occam Bandage]

32. "Bush ignored warnings of 9/11" is not the claim I am countering.

Rather, I am countering the claim that Bush staged 9/11, which is something else entirely. There is absolutely no evidence of any sort that George W. Bush planned and executed the 9/11 attacks.

[BeFree]

33. Bush Knew

Whether he designed it, who knows, probably not he was such an idiot, but he knew. He coulda stopped it, or at least tried to stop it. He didn't. Obama would have. Cheney? Ahh, a whole 'nother kettle, eh?

In a court of law Bush could be charged with accessory. Obama could not.

Eat your comparisons before they eat you.

[onenote]

22. pretty pathetic that he can't even come up with his own tinfoil

but instead recycles some DU tinfoil from the past few years.

Who woulda thunk Keyes would be a recycler.

Happy Earth Day!

[DFW]

23. I trust Alan Keys to....

ummm, well, hold here, there gotta be something, it's on the tip of my....


naaah, forget it.

Never mind.

[canadianbeaver]

27. They are so outta touch...they are using the

kooks on the left old tin foil nuttery...

THEY GOT NOTHIN'