I'm not sure that this is especially surprising, given what we know about his politics, but Alan Keyes displayed his total ignorance of what the Founders had in mind when setting up this Republic (if we can, or even still have, it). Either it's total ignorance, or in his opinion, the American Experiment is not worth it, or both. It was pretty astounding to hear on the radio.
When reading this, think about all the other evidence we have with regard to the right wing extremists doing things that, when added together, indicate their agenda of having the executive branch of government dictating the terms of debate, what can be debated, and what the solution will be.
See below the jump.
At about 5:30 this afternoon, Alan Keyes called into the Randi Rhodes show about the Terri Schiavo case. What he said about Terri Schiavo herself was not nearly as important as the following (a paraphrase of what I heard):
He said, with respect to the FL constitution, that the Executive Branch of government can ignore the Supreme Court in anything it does, if that executive determines that what the SC says is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court cannot be the ultimate arbiter of constitutionality, or else the Supreme Court would have ultimate power. "It's geometric" (whatever that means, that sentence was a direct quote)! Randi tried to get out of him what he thought "separation of powers" meant. Clearly, either he doesn't understand the concept or thinks we all need a Big Bully Brother (as Randi puts it on her show) to keep us in line, separation of powers, and intentions of the founders be damned.
This is the man who wanted to be:
1. Governor of Maryland
2. Senator from Illinois
3. President of the U.S.
Randi and he got into a shouting match about this, unfortunately; but he wasn't about to listen to her. She's now quoting the FL constitution: "the gov may request in writing that the Supreme court determine the constitutionality of a potential act of the executive branch of government, which they need to render in writing." Apparently, Alan Keyes would prefer a dictatorship to a democracy.