Ever since Pat Buchanan ran off and joined the Reform Party--that great untethered life raft for political misfits--the Republican Party has been missing a certain something. George W. Bush and John McCain are tediously moderate, and the alternatives have sometimes seemed a self-negating rack of eight balls. But last week, as Orrin Hatch quit, Gary Bauer joined Pat Boone in the Unhip Hall of Fame and Steve Forbes seemed suddenly passe, Alan Keyes was poised to become the new leader of the American fringe.
As with Buchanan, you can ask Keyes what time it is, and the answer will include a...
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