Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes will be in New York City next week for the Republican National Convention, but he has turned down an offer to speak so he can concentrate on meeting with smaller groups of GOP stalwarts, supporters and possible donors, a campaign aide said Wednesday.
Republican candidates for open U.S. Senate seats, including Keyes, were offered speaking roles next Monday afternoon at the convention, said Dan Allen, a spokesman for the Republican National Senatorial Committee.
Also Wednesday, Keyes, who spent 11 years in the U.S. State Department, attacked Barack Obama’s views on Middle East issues, accusing him of a “brutal naivete” and being part of a “pattern of accommodation of terror.”
In a speech hosted by the Midwest chapter of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish group, Keyes said that in a speech last month before the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Obama pointed “the finger of blame at the [Bush] administration” for a failure to move forward with the Mideast peace process.
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From news services.
