Keyes to the Kingdom

Ladies and gentlemen, Texas is officially a firewall state for the G.O.P. How do I know this? Because Alan Keyes is putting his Presidential campaign on the line here in the Lone Star State.

On Tuesday, presidential candidate Alan Keyes began a six-week grassroots tour of Texas, originally his home state. Keyes is a 1968 graduate of Cole High School in San Antonio.

Although Keyes will make excursions outside Texas as needed, and will continue his nationwide radio blitz to counter the media's virtual blackout of his campaign, he plans to camp out in Texas until its primary on March 4. As most pundits agree, if Super Tuesday fails to produce a "presumptive" Republican nominee, Texas becomes all the more important as the last big prize of the primaries.

For all intents and purposes, the headquarters of the Keyes campaign has moved to Texas.

A couple of things: 1) Has there been a politician who has run for more races in more states than Alan Keyes? 2) I didn't know until I visited his website yesterday that he was still in the race!