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TODAY o July 30, 2000
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Keyes drops out of race
Saeed Ahmed - Staff
Sunday, July 30, 2000
The man many call the Don Quixote of the Republican Party is done tilting at the windmills of moral decay for now, and has called it quits.
Having dropped off the political radar screen months ago, Republican presidential contender Alan Keyes dropped out of the race for the White House Tuesday.
"I am not sure of the filing of withdrawal papers with the FEC (Federal Election Commission) and all that kind of paperwork stuff, but in terms of my going out and campaigning and that kind of thing, I am no longer a candidate, " he said in an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution, following his announcement at a Boston rally criticizing Tufts University for its workshop for gay teens.
"I think we managed to articulate the view that America is in the midst of a great moral crisis because there has been an egregious failure of moral stewardship on the part of the President," Keyes said of his campaign. "And if the American people go into the voting booth thinking about that failure, then the Democrats -- in spite of economy and everything else -- will be tossed out of the White House on their ear. "
Keyes, who also ran for president in 1996, said it was too premature to ponder another run, or to discuss if he'd accept a position in Republican nominee George W. Bush's cabinet if offered.
"I think it's amusing in politics how some count their chickens not only before they hatch but before they've even left the coop, " he said. " What we forget is that between now and the date of any such invitation, there is a little thing called the winning the election."
Keyes expressed satisfaction with the Bush choice of Dick Cheney as running mate, but was mum on why he wasn't offered a berth at the Republican National Convention.
"I think that is something you have to take up with the RNC," he said. "I know I will be at the convention united behind Bush and the party."
For now, Keyes is wrapping up work on a book dealing with the moral issues of the day, "presented in a genre that's similar to the Socratic dialogue," according to his spokeswoman, Connie Hair.
He is also criss-crossing the country on speaking engagements and rasing money for right-to-life groups. He said he has no plans of returning to his radio talk show.
Keyes, who dazzled crowds with his fiery oratical style during the Republican debates, didn't win any primaries last winter or spring. His best showing was in the Iowa caucases, where he won 14 percent of the vote.
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