"The Republicans' new champion is the opposite of cool," The Economist declared of Alan Keyes in 2004. "In 1996 he chained himself to the front door of a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, to protest against a decision to exclude him from a presidential debate (he was then mounting the first of his two bids for the presidency)..."

[Alan Keyes once called Barack Obama's pro-choice abortion stance -- the slaveholder's position? on the subject.]