alan keyes, you crazy.

i love the WTFz0rZ tone of this old NYT article. as well as how he's constantly pointing at things on his "America's Revival" site:



December 14, 2007, 12:19 am
How Did Keyes Get on Stage?

By Sarah Wheaton
Alan Keyes(Photo: Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)

The exclusion of Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio and Mike Gravel from the Democratic debate on Thursday stung those candidates and their supporters. But what made the situation puzzling was the presence on Wednesday at the Republicans’ version of The Des Moines Register debate of Alan Keyes, who had until then been nearly invisible in this campaign.

But Mr. Keyes met The Register’s full criteria for participation. He filed as a presidential candidate with the Federal Election Commission, and he received 2 percent in The Register’s poll in October. Participants needed to show at least 1 percent.

Mr. Keyes also met the requirement of having a campaign office and a “paid campaign staff representative to perform full-time campaign duties” in Iowa as of Oct. 1.

But no phone number could be found for the office in Lohrville, Iowa, that Mr. Keyes listed in his application to The Register. Even the state’s Republican leaders said Thursday that they had not known it existed.


and then!