Posted under Alan Keyes & Constitution Party
Here is Dr. DiLorenzo’s take at the Lew Rockwell Blog.
Good for my old friend Howard Phillips and the Constitution Party for preventing yet another neocon takeover of a traditional conservative, limited government organization — the Constitution Party. Keyes is the quintessential Neocon insider: He was a student of the flamboyant “Straussian” Alan Bloom at Cornell, and lived in the same house as Bloom, along with several other male neocons who called the womens’ dress-wearing Bloom “master.”; he studied at Harvard under Straussian neocon Harvey Mansfield; and he entered national politics as a sidekick of neocon UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick during the Reagan years.
Shortly after the publication of The Real Lincoln in 2002 Howard Phillips had me on his local cable TV show in Virginia to discuss the book. During one of the breaks he mentioned that he had asked Keyes to join the Constitution Party and he declined, saying that he agreed with just about everything the Party stood for except for its criticisms, mostly from Howard, of Lincoln. Lincoln idolatry is, of course, the defining characteristic of a Straussian Neocon Warmonger like Keyes, for The Legend of Father Abraham is what “justifies” the American empire and its expansion.
roho on 28 Apr 2008 at 10:40 pm #
I suspect that the CFR gave Keyes his marching orders, as they have “Covered their Bets” in all parties, and knew that they could count on him as a “Lincoln Worshiper” of the highest degree!
Watch how he fades as the mission becomes a failure!….These ambitious little minions that follow the Neocon Party Line, soon go to plan “B” once they are rooted out and exposed.
Keyes will now become a voice against Paleoconservatism seeking a new home, and criticizing the one that he just left……..How foolish of us not to take the bait!