In 2000, Alan Keyes scolded Hillary Clinton on Fox News for running for the U.S. Senate in New York -- -- a state she doesn't even live in.? Cut to 2004, when Alan Keyes, a native New Yorker, ran for the Senate in Illinois...
["The Keyes candidacy [against mixed-race Democratic star Barack Obama] also smacks of tokenism," The Economist observed. "The candidate routinely denounces affirmative action as a form of racial discrimination. But what other than racial discrimination can explain the Illinois Republican Party's decision to shortlist two blacks for the Illinois slot -- and eventually to choose Mr Keyes? He brings no powerful backers or deep pockets, and was thrashed in his two runs for the Senate in Maryland."]
[Alan Keyes once called Barack Obama's pro-choice abortion stance -- the slaveholder's position? on the subject.]
Sources
The Economist, Aug 12th 2004
