Alan Keyes has lost his bid to run for US President on the Constitution Party ticket (Keyes and Mike Gravel are bidding to compose one of the more exclusive clubs in American politics- the losers of two parties' presidential nods in six months).
At Reason, Jesse Walker explains the strange course Keyes' ideological fanaticism has taken:
"I pointed out a while back that the California affiliate of the Constitution Party is the old American Independent Party, a group formed as a political vehicle for the segregationist George Wallace. Jim Antle of The American Spectator, who has done the best reporting I've seen on the CP race, tells me that the California delegation backed Keyes, a black man -- while the party's two black state chairs were Keyes' leading opponents. It's a complicated world, innit?"
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