
Amb. Alan Keyes
Gillespie has the backing of the McConnell-Rove, “crush the Tea Party”, GOP wing of the elitist faction. In the unlikely event that the strong grassroots backlash against Obama’s traitorous, anti-American would-be dictatorship swamps Mark Warner with other Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Gillespie can be counted on to back McConnell’s efforts to use a GOP majority to assure a strong GOP effort to perfume Obamacare and Common Core, ignore Obama’s high crimes and misdemeanors, assure amnesty for illegals, and wrest leadership of the elitist faction bid to overthrow America’s constitutional self-government from Obama’s failing hands. (As you read the last sentence, please lard it with thick slabs of bitterly ironic sarcasm.)
Though Shak Hill launched his grassroots roots campaign last year, he caught my serious attention when he added his name to the roster of candidates who have committed themselves to the pledge to impeach mobilization. While others are content impotently to decry Obama’s high crimes and misdemeanors for political effect, the veteran U.S. Air force pilot is resolved to stop him, using the means the Constitution provides.
Of course, his understanding of the Constitution’s provisions for dealing with a lawless, traitorous, would-be dictator isn’t the only reason I decided to join him on the campaign trail. He staunchly believes that the first step in meeting whatever challenges the nation faces is to consult the provisions of the Constitution. He knows that the elitist faction’s socialist schemes (Romney/Obamacare, the “Common Core” scheme for ideological subversion of the U.S. education system, efforts to suppress the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and so forth) pose a threat to the strength, moral character and liberty of the American people.
He also knows that Obama’s traitorous dealings with terrorists (Benghazi, the deal to release terrorist leaders in exchange for someone the evidence suggests is an anti-American deserter from the U.S. armed forces) are a clear and present danger to the nation’s safety. Unlike some, however, he isn’t foolish enough to think that we can afford to leave someone of this traitorous, dictatorial bent in the White House unchallenged between now and the 2016 election. We must call Obama and all his collaborators to account for their high crimes. Otherwise, during every moment of the remainder of the Presidential term of office we will have to fear that any serious crisis the nation faces offers them an opportunity permanently to overthrow the Constitution for which they have already shown their utter contempt.
It will come as no surprise to my readers, however, that what clinched my decision to support Shak Hill as actively as I can is his demonstrated commitment to respect Declaration principles, which declare that the purpose of government is to secure our God-endowed unalienable rights. First among these is the unalienable right to life. Shak Hill and his wife Robin proved their unwavering character in this regard when they respected the right to life of their unborn child, even while facing the very real fact that this involved grave risk to her life. (Their son is now a medical technician who works to save lives in emergency situations. He is also a thoughtful, conscientious young man of deep conviction, committed to living out his Christian, Catholic faith.)
They upheld their responsibility to God for their child’s life the way Shak upheld his oath as a decorated combat veteran U.S. to defend the U.S. Constitution, even at the risk of his life. This firmness of character gives us reason to believe that, as a U.S. Senator, Shak Hill will show that same firm resolve when it comes to insisting on the U.S. government’s obligation to respect the unalienable rights of the American people, as secured by the Bill of Rights. This includes especially the Ninth and Tenth amendments; and the exclusive authority of the states, respectively and the people when it comes to expressing their reverence for God, as secured, in unequivocal terms, by the First and Tenth Amendments.
Go-Along to Get-Along (GAGA) Washington insiders and quislings (I call them the Lady GAGAs of our twin-Party political farce) pay lip-service to our Constitution and God-endowed rights when it serves their political purposes. But they have more regard for money and power than they have for the decent liberty God has vouchsafed to us for the benefit of our posterity. Even when such people get elected, right and liberty lose the day. America’s march toward domineering elitist faction socialism continues unabated. We need to elect people who will truly represent our determination to stand in opposition to the march to socialism, as the first patriots stood against the British forces that marched on Lexington and Concord.
The key to finding such true representatives is to support people who will follow our lead in this respect because they share our heart’s commitment to the truths that make us free, and the liberty our respect for those truths makes possible. I am praying earnestly that a majority of the delegates who assemble to nominate the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate on Saturday in Virginia will cast their votes for Shak Hill. I hope they will look beyond his opponent’s money-bought hype in order to make a choice that reflects the life and death struggle for America’s decent liberty that now approaches a climactic moment of decision.
Business as usual, and the lobbyist dealmakers who have made their living from it, will never have the will to save our liberty. But if Shak Hill stands for us as he stood for the life of his unborn son, as he stands for the oath he once swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution, as he stands in good faith to acknowledge the endowment of God our Creator, he will surely raise his voice, and cast his votes, to represent the heart, the will, and the common sense not only of Virginia’s patriots, but of Americans throughout the land still determined to live in decent, rightful freedom.
[Like all campaigns, Shak Hill’s effort could use your help. Visit his campaign’s website. I think you will be moved, as I have been, to contribute what you can to his support.]
Alan Keyes is a conservative author, former diplomat, and candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S. Foreign Service in 1979 at the United States consulate in Bombay, India, and later in the American embassy in Zimbabwe. He ran for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2008 (founding and serving as the presidential nominee of the America’s Independent Party in 2008), and was a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1988, 1992, and 2004. Keyes was appointed Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations by President Ronald Reagan, and served as Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987; in his capacities as a UN ambassador, among Keyes’s accomplishments was contributing to the Mexico City Policy. Keyes also hosted a radio talk show, The Alan Keyes Show: America’s Wake-Up Call, and a television commentary show on the MSNBC cable network, Alan Keyes Is Making Sense.
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Mr Gillespie was able to bring in busloads of eager bright-eyed young college voters who were drinking his kool-aid and Mr Hill lost. The issue seemed to be that Mr Gillespie has access to lots of money and Mr Hill doesn’t. Of course, the fact that the money Mr Gillespie can access is tainted, lobbyist, money that is repaid with “favors” which are destroying our republic is beyond the reach of their young minds.
Mr Hill showed grace and integrity in his defeat and urged all to support Mr Gillespie by proclamation. I am devastated. We have lost the chance of having a great man represent us and instead have another proven RINO to support.
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Disclosure request: How much is Alan Keyes getting paid for this “endorsement tour”?
Shak doesn’t have any money to pay for endorsements. We all know buying endorsements is way more of an Ed Gillespie thing. Why not ask the National Right to Life Committee what their endorsement cost the Gillespie campaign?
I could do that and might later but they haven’t written an article like this. My question stands.
I find it hard to believe that Alan Keyes is willing to pack his carpetbag for free.
That’s not fair! Keyes pays himself from his campaigns:
“During the 1992 election, Keyes attracted controversy when he took a $8,463/month salary from his campaign fund.”
Sounds like Jaime Radtke who paid herself for fuel reimbursements AND transportation in her “Trail of Tears Bus Tour.”
Keyes does nothing for free, AND demands a hotel and mileage reimbursement even though he lives in MD, then cuts in line at the buffet to snag the last piece of chicken from a donor. It’s pretty sad when your big endorsee a week prior to your first big election has to reach back 30 years to tout his political credentials, and Shak is naïve enough to think this is a good thing?
Maybe Mr. Kotter and JJ Evans can hook up with some Brady Bunch kids and come out for ole Shak too? It’s not too late!
Yea everybody, lets listen to the guy who has lost 3 US Senate races (th, 3 US Presidential Races (where he never was nominated), and he also DEFECTED from the Republican Party, didn’t get nominated by them, and started his own party because he was in a pissy mood.
Yea, that makes a ton of sense.
I support a winner, I support Ed.
P.S. Steve Thomas, WHERE ARE YOU? Im awaiting your reply….Come here little troll, where are you???????? I enjoy this too much.
Way too much. You’re looking like an idiot now. One question mark is quite sufficient.
ROFL. Wait for it….
Now I’ve seen everything. Smh
Excellent article. I support principled, conservative Hill over establishment party-hack Gillespie. Go Shak!!
From one guy who lost a Senate race by 30 points to another who will if he’s nominated, this all makes sense.
That’s not fair! Alan Keyes never lost by 30 points to anyone! He lost in IL to Obama in 2004 by 43% and in MD back in ’88 by 23% and ’92 by 42%, but never by 30%!!!
That’s only indicative of our collective depravity
All excellent reasons for supporting Shak Hill. Thank you ambassador, you stated it beautifully. The reason for supporting Shak Hill is that he will not sit back and let Establishment types and Liberals run roughshod all over the Constitution. Does Ed Gillespie give you the impression that he will fight for you or that he wants to serve? I sure haven’t seen it. He runs from a fight and will not stand up for his constituents. More of the same old tired politics. I sure don’t want that for VA. It’s time for fresh, bold leadership. I don’t see it in Ed Gillespie or the others and certainly not in Mark Warner.
Ambassador, thank you for sharing your opinion, and for your service to our country.
I’m interested in hearing more, particularly on what YOU think are effective ways to win elections, given your lengthy track record at running them.
I’m also pleased to know that so many Constitution Party members have taken an interest in internal Republican Party politics.
FOR THE WIN.
The only reason the Constitution Party exists at all is because so many Republicans fail to adhere to the Constitution.
Did I miss that stampede of conservatives to the Constitution Party?
If you’ve missed the stampede of conservatives fleeing the GOP and ending up either in other parties or alienated from the political system altogether – some of whom ended up in the Constitution Party – yes, you have missed one of the most significant political phenomenons of our time.
You’d think a “stampede” would kick up more dust than that.
The reason the Constitution Party exists is because Howard Philips needed a platform to run on after unsuccessfully convincing Ronald Reagan to fire James Baker and deciding he didn’t support the re-election of Bush41 in 1992.
He finished with 0.04% of the vote, so I don’t think any Republican dissatisfaction with the Republican Party was at all contributory to the founding of the Constitution Party. But if you’re looking to swell its ranks, I’d happily encourage you to switch your affiliation. Virgil Goode would be glad to hear about it.
LOL- Those pesky facts.
Do you really think Alan Keyes is going to respond to you here?
I honestly don’t think he even knows this site exists.