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  Keyes to victory? [Keyes insane?]
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Last EditedGerald Farinas  Aug 12, 2004 01:29pm
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News DateThursday, August 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionKeyes to victory? [Keyes insane?]
Illinois Times

The new Illinois Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Maryland activist Alan Keyes, 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. 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 in association with Keyes before Nov. 2. The reason: The opinionated candidate has a long record of far-right statements that have been largely overlooked. In the 1996 and 2000 Republican presidential contests, no candidate saw Keyes as a threat or wanted to risk criticizing an African American. Since then, Keyes has been a little-noticed commentator favored by the extreme right wing. That will soon change, and many of Keyes' comments may shock the Republican moderates who grudgingly accepted him as their candidate.
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