Oh happy day: Alan Keyes ‘08?
Please, please come true. The only person I want to run for president more then Newt Gingrich is Alan Keyes. And that just might happen:
Former U.S. Amb. Alan Keyes is sending signals to allies that he is weighing a late bid for the Republican presidential nomination, two sources close to the two-time presidential candidate say.
This week, Keyes’s name was registered to participate in the West Virginia Republican convention in 2008 — that party’s delegate selection contests. The entry fee is $5000 and the deadline for payment was last Friday, according to the state party’s website.
Sources close to Keyes confirmed that he has begun to talk to some of his longtime advisers about a run. But they said he did not direct RenewAmerica, a grassroots activist group he chairs, to send in the fee.
RenewAmerica has started an active Draft Keyes movement through its political action committee. The PAC paid for a table at the Iowa Republican Party straw poll in Ames last month, and Mary Parker Lewis, Keyes’s long-time chief of staff, wrote in an e-mail that she would probably rejoin RenewAmerica soon.
But, she, said, “To date, I would say he has only very provisionally, only in principle, approved their efforts as a moral conservative voter mobilization,” Lewis said.
I am absolutely joining the Draft Keyes movement. Where do I sign up? Come on Mr. Keyes, your country needs you to run. I need you to run. You know you want to.
I agree! Go Alan Keyes!