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Keyes 2000 Weekly Update - February 22, 2000
In this Edition:
1. Transcript of Keyes on CNN's Late Edition
2. In Clinton's own words - Why the Keyes message is CRITICAL
3. Media contacts for upcoming primary states & Campaign
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1. Transcript of Keyes on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf
Blitzer 2/20/00
Blitzer: Despite getting only 5% of yesterday's vote in South
Carolina,
Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes says he's saying in
the race,
at least for now. He joins us live from Detroit, Ambassador
Keyes,
welcome back to Late Edition. A lot of people are asking you,
Mr.
Ambassador, why are you staying in this race?
Keyes: Well, I guess they don't listen to the answer I've
repeatedly
given.
My campaign is about grassroots. There are people who have
worked very
hard over the course of the last several months here in
Michigan, to
prepare for the time when I'd be able to come and work with them
in order
to carry a message of integrity to the voters, that actually
stands some
chance for winning for Republicans in the fall. I think, I was
reading
today in the paper, a lady was asked why she voted for Bush and
she said
because she knew his father. I'm beginning more and more to
feel like the
guy who goes in, has the strong resume, does really well in the
interview,
better than anybody else, is adjudged to be the best candidate
for the
job, and then it's given to somebody else because the boss knows
his
father. That's great for nepotism, but when it comes to the
companies
that really succeed, the people who get the big market share are
the ones
who hire for talent, not for nepotism. And the Republican party
has gone
down this road right now, of trying to choose somebody, not
because of
what he really offers in the way of ability, but because people
knew his
father. That is not going to win the election in the fall,
particularly
when we need someone who can address the moral challenge in such
a way as
to overcome the advantage that the Democrats will get from the
strong
economy.
Blitzer: But at what point do you say to yourself, 'I am not
going to get
the Republican nomination, I might as well follow in the
footsteps of
Elizabeth Dole, or Llamar Alexander or Dan Quayle or Steve
Forbes and say,
I might as well let the other two fight it out.'
Keyes: Well, those folks were in it for the sake of their
ambition I
guess.
I'm in it because I think that what I represent is best for this
country
and offers the only real prospect of victory for Republicans in
the fall.
We have got to address the truth. This nation is in the midst
of the
greatest moral crisis we have ever faced as a people. It is
affecting
every area of our lives, undermining the confidence that we need
to oppose
the liberal agenda of government expansion that is destroying
our
liberties. In every area, control of our money, control of our
schools,
the assault on second amendment rights, the surrender of our
national
sovereignty, all these things are rooted in the end in our loss
of moral
self confidence. That is the issue that has to be placed before
the
American people in the fall to drive home the failure of moral
stewardship
by the Democrats in the course of the years of the Clinton
administration.
G.W. Bush is a decent guy, but he cannot carry that ball.
Blitzer: Are you in the race, therefore, until August, until
the
Republican convention?
Keyes: I'm in the race as long as there are grassroots people
putting
together effective campaigns. I came into the state yesterday,
they had
put together a rally, eight hundred people turned out to hear
what I had
to say, and will go out to work hard in order to get this
message out.
And I'll continue to work with those good hearted people as long
as
they're willing to help me raise a standard of integrity in this
political
election.
Blitzer: You know, a lot of people are trying to organize a
debate
between Bush and McCain that would exclude you. If that were to
happen,
four years ago you went on a hunger strike, what would you do to
try to
counter that if you were excluded from an upcoming debate.
Keyes: "A lot of people" are not trying to do that, racists in
the media
are trying to do that. The same racists who left me out of the
picture in
the New York Times. The same racists who have refused to invite
me on the
broadcast media in this country, while giving the others hour
long
infomercials to spread their word. They do it because the
broadcast media
is the media that is watched by most black folks in America.
They don't
get a lot of the cable channels. And as a result, these racists
don't
want black people to know that the most capable candidate in
this race has
black skin, because that might excite some folks in the black
community,
as I know it does, when people hear about it. So I think we see
evidently
who is planning that Wolf, and I think we know what their
motives are,
and it's not "some people." It's folks in the media who are
acting as the
censors of this process, and doing it on a basis that is replete
with
racial stereotyping in such a way as to demean my capabilities,
in order
to follow through on a judgement that's really based on their
racial
stereotypes.
Blitzer: Mr. Ambassador, we have a caller from Houston TX.
Let's take
his call, go ahead with your call please.
Caller: Yes, Ambassador Keyes, it's an honor and a privilege to
speak
with you. I know you get a lot of questions about race, and I
apologize,
this will only be one. Whites can either be liberal or
conservative, and
no one questions they don't know who they are. But black
conservatives
get a lot of hate, especially from the black community, from the
liberals.
What can we do in America that a black man can not only be proud
to be a
conservative, but be respected in the black community.
Keyes: Well I think Conservatism is respected. I don't think
the problem
is in the black community. I am finding, that as we went into
South
Carolina, I was just here, arriving in Detroit yesterday,
visiting Focus
Hope, talking to folks; there's no lack of willingness to
listen to what
I have to say. Good hearted, decent people are willing to
evaluate what I
say, on the merits, in the black community, and I am very
pleased about
that and very happy about it. The problem I think now, is with
the racist
media that refuses to allow 'black' and 'conservative' to come
together.
They have their stereotypes - it's not in the community that
this is
happening. It's in the minds of the racist media that refuses to
take off
their blinders, stop applying their stereotypes, and just let
people be
what they are. That's why I didn't appear on "Good Morning
America"
before the South Carolina Primary, but John McCain did. I've
never been
invited for a hour long interview with "Meet the Press" and Tim
Russert,
but G.W. Bush got it.
They get all the free earned media, plus all the money that they
have and
so forth, have all the advantages and yet still can do nothing
with their
time but bicker when they get an opportunity before the American
people.
Blitzer: Let's take another caller from Scottsdale, AZ please
go ahead
with your question.
Caller: Yes, Ambassador Keyes, what character and personality,
you think,
our President should have to deal effectively with the political
leadership in China and Russia?
Keyes: Well, I think the most important characteristic for
dealing with
the
Chinese in particular, is a real sense of our own interests, an
unwillingness, in some patronizing way to expect that we're
going to have
influence over them because they want to be like us and all this
sort of
stuff, because I think that's not true, that leads to a lot of
self
delusions. So we need to know who we are, be clear about our
values and
interests, we need to understand that they know who they are,
and are
clear about their interests, and in that clear, tough- minded
way, I think
we need to sit down and make it clear that we're not going base
relationships on delusions and wishful thinking. We're going to
base them
on real performance, respect for our values, and a sense that
there really
is a mutual interest, not an effort to take advantage of us to
get our
secrets and our capital without an exchange, seeing real change
and
accommodation from the Communist Chinese.
The Russians are a little different. I think there we have
openings
obviously, the old regime is gone. We need to be working
effectively with
Russian society at all levels, especially building the
non-government ties
between non-governmental entities in Russia and those outside of
Russia so
we can develop a strong social infrastructure rather than just
work
government to government with what has essentially become a
Cleptocracy
out there.
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2. In Clinton's own words - Why the Keyes message is CRITICAL
The following was taken from a press conference held last week:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/16/se.05.html
QUESTION: Mr. President, you don't seem to have any good news on
the
Northern Ireland or Middle Eastern front, so I thought I'd ask
you a
home-front question. How do you like being targeted in the
Republican
presidential campaign? Texas Governor -- and I have to quote
this: Texas
Governor Bush told Senator McCain, quote, "Whatever you do,
don't equate
my integrity and trustworthiness with Bill Clinton. That's about
as low as
you can get in the Republican primary." And McCain said that he
resented
being called Clinton or Clinton-like, and a few other things.
What do you
say?
CLINTON: Well...
(LAUGHTER)
I have a couple of observations. One is, you know, they're
playing to an
electorate, most of whom did not vote for me. And secondly, I
have a lot
of sympathy with Government Bush and Senator McCain. I mean,
it's hard for
them to figure out what to run on.
They can't run against the longest economic expansion in
history, or the
lowest crime rate in 30 years, or the lowest welfare roles in 30
years, or
the progress America has made in promoting peace around the
world, or the
fact that our party overrode theirs and passed the family leave
and it's
benefited 20 million and it hasn't hurt the economy.
So they've got a tough job and I have a lot of sympathy with
them, and I
don't want to complicate their problems by saying any more about
them.
(LAUGHTER)
And Keyes at the recent South Carolina CNN debate:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/15/se.03.html
Keyes: Why on Earth don't we want to send our best person to
face Al Gore
and Bill Bradley, instead of sending folks into the debate, the
half-hearted, the unconvicted, the folks who in point of fact
can't make
our case as well and effectively as we should make it?
.. I think -- I think that what we did last time when we ran
experience
[Dole] it really worked well in terms of the result...
I would love to take both of these records [that of Bush and
McCain] and
sit them in an empty chair in a debate against Al Gore and see
who wins.
I think that we've got to remember that what you can do to stand
before
the American people, articulate what's on their heart, how it
relates to
the great principles of this country, and how we have to address
those
principles in order to enter the next century with the
confidence that as
a decent people we will retain our liberty, not keep handing it
off to the
government, that's the challenge we face, in a year, by the way,
when - if
the spokesman of the Republican Party isn't able to meet the
moral
challenge of this nation's life, we will lose the election
because that's
where the Democrats are vulnerable.
KING: Are you questioning the moral -- are you questioning the
moral
challenge of...
KEYES: I question their ability to articulate on the moral
issues of our
time, a clear and passionate and convicted case that can
persuade and move
the people of this country. And if you can't do it, by the way,
in this
election year, economy booming, world relatively at peace, if we
don't go
out and attack that moral flank exposed by Bill Clinton's lying,
perfidy,
oath-breaking, and utter shameless betrayal of our moral
heritage, we will
lose and we will deserve to lose.
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The victory we are all striving with Ambassador Keyes for
extends in its
scope and impact way beyond November. It is critical that we not
be swayed
by the media/establishment push to shorten our sites in order to
run after
some partisan victory, a pattern which Conservatives have been
herded
towards
unsuccessfully for the past two election cycles.
A lasting and true victory for ALL of America is going to
require that the
American people come to understand, appreciate and reestablish
in our
nation's life, those great Declaration principles which are the
foundation
of our unique system of government. By those timeless and
universal
principles alone is our common heritage defined and unified, and
our
equality before God and man respected.
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