America’s Independent Party nominates Alan Keyes for PresidentFenton, MI – August 21, 2008
America’s Independent Party met last night in its inaugural National Convention and chose former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes of Maryland as its nominee for President of the United States.
A platform was also debated and adopted, and national officers were elected.
America’s Independent Party is being built by Reagan pro-life, pro-family, “Peace through Strength” conservatives who believe that the Republican Party, with the pending nomination of John McCain, has abandoned the principles of Ronald Reagan – particularly the Reagan pro-life platform plank that recognizes the personhood of the unborn and their protection by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
The party also opposes John McCain on many other important points, including his opposition to a federal amendment protecting traditional marriage and the natural family; his sponsorship of the McCain/Feingold legislation, which they view as a direct attack on their First Amendment rights to political free speech and grassroots citizen activism; his long-time support for so-called “comprehensive immigration reform,” which they consider to be amnesty; and his support for the global warming agenda, which they believe will destroy our economy and strip us of our national sovereignty if pursued as public policy.
Since the founders of AIP are primarily long-time Keyes supporters, their opposition to Barack Obama is simply an extension of the work against the presumptive Democrat nominee that they started four years ago during the Illinois Keyes/Obama U.S. Senate race.
Chairman Tom Hoefling, commenting on the convention, said, “We may not have balloons, funny hats, and millions of dollars pouring into our coffers from corporate sponsors, but we have something that is much more important: regular folks – housewives, small business people, factory workers, truck drivers, accountants, executives, pastors, moms, dads – good-hearted people who love their country and want to save it. The Republicans and the Democrats no longer represent ‘We the People.’ That’s why we intend to change American politics from the bottom up, by example.”
AIP had intended to nominate American Right to Life President Brian Rohrbough of Colorado for Vice President, but delegates unanimously voted to table the nomination pending next week’s court decision in California that will decide if Dr. Keyes will be on the ballot as the nominee of America’s Independent Party’s newest and largest affiliate, the American Independent Party.
Please watch www.AlanKeyes.com and www.SelfGovernment.us for further developments.
AIP Convention nomination speechDave RacerAugust 20, 2008This is an historic occasion, and I am blessed and thankful to be a part of it.
My active journey with Alan Keyes began in Des Moines, Iowa, in June of 1995. That day, after introducing him, I sat and listened. I was captured by his passion and his words, as were tens of thousands of Americans during that campaign season.
Eventually, he asked me to become his national campaign manager. In this capacity I witnessed something unseen in my long political experience. I witnessed a prairie fire launched by the passion, conviction, and words of this great scholar, this great man, this great American, this great friend, Alan Keyes.
This prairie fire sprang from the hearts ignited by the words Dr. Keyes carefully chose at each campaign stop. At each place hundreds of people rose up to renew the kind of America envisioned by our founding fathers.
Dr. Keyes found those great words in his careful and thoughtful study of human nature, in the Bible, in the great books of human history, but so greatly inspired by the Declaration of Independence. At the end of the campaign, he and I founded the Declaration Foundation. And I want to share with you some of Dr. Keyes’ words that he shared at our inaugural event in San Diego, 1996. He spoke of real conviction to principles, instead of blowing with every political breeze. He said:
“What’s not so good is that you can’t just pretend with rhetoric, because our principles have consequences for the great issues of right and wrong that we face as a people. And, in the course of our history, the great turning points of American life have been those moments when as a people, we faced the crossroads. And down one road we could see the future implied by our Declaration, and down the other the future implied by our abandonment of it, and we had to make a choice.” Dr. Keyes made a choice then, and he is making an even more courageous choice now. He needs others to boldly walk that road with him, to face the crises of today with courage, and to rediscover our ideals and be willing to fight for them.
Again, to quote Dr. Keyes’ Declaration Foundation address: “And actually, when we reach the great crises, the great moments when we have to make that demand upon patriotism, then all of a sudden we rediscover that this nation is about high ideals and noble aspirations and a better understanding of human nature than seems to characterize our politics of today.”
How much more true are those words in 2008? Our politics of today, of change for change sake, of hope that is no hope, of courage that is at its root, cowardice, that abandons the most vulnerable among us, and gambles with our national security. This is the time for a leader with high ideals and noble aspirations.
Such real change, changing the hearts of men and of women and of young people, will come with great sacrifice. Dr. Keyes is making that sacrifice. You are making that sacrifice. But it will take more. It requires a pledge of our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
There is no better way to end these comments than with the words Dr. Keyes ended his Declaration speech, and I urge you to listen carefully.
“I hope this will be a way for us to pledge ourselves to a renewal … so that we can pass on intact to those children we see, and to those children we shall never see, that heritage of freedom which is our real responsibility, so that, when we shut our eyes in the sleep of death and go to seek the Lord, we will be able to look back on our role as citizens knowing that we did what we could to make sure that this would still be a nation, in the best sense, free, and in the best sense, whole, and true to its beginnings. If we do that, then I think we shall have done all we can do, as citizens. The rest is up to God.”
My fellow American citizens, I proudly nominate Alan Keyes to be the next President of the United States of America.
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