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The "Draft Alan Keyes" movement is totally on. From a right-wing mailing list to which I happen to subscribe:

Dear Friends of Alan Keyes,

Several times a week, we at RenewAmerica receive messages from moral conservatives and concerned citizens encouraging Alan Keyes to run for president in 2008 (messages we pass on to him).

Typically, these messages express dissatisfaction with the current field of candidates and ask Alan to enter the Republican primaries--the most wide-open presidential race in 60 years...

In response to these expressions of confidence in Alan, we've launched a new website--AlanKeyes.com--to rally support for Alan's possible candidacy.

Alan believes that the American people are the key to restoring and sustaining a renewal of the values that are essential to the future of our nation. He has therefore assured us that if enough grassroots support exists for him to run, he is prepared to run.

The bold and italics are both theirs. Music fans may remember Alan Keyes (who unsuccessfully ran against Barack Obama in his 2004 Senate bid) as the 2000 Republican presidential candidate who dove into a mosh pit at a Rage Against the Machine show. An even more conservative candidate, Gary Bauer, later criticized Keyes for supporting an "anti-family" and "pro-terrorist" band called "The Machine Rages On."

Good news for David Broder, would-be Xgau of all political pundits, who won't have to be bored anymore. But bad news, too, because the good Dean might have to wake up from his long multi-decade nap.

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