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Alan Keyes, the radio talk-show host and former diplomat who refuses to follow Lamar Alexander, Dan Quayle, Elizabeth Dole, Orrin Hatch, Gary Bauer and Steve Forbes out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, is a man in perpetual motion.
But one thing stays put: Keyes' message never changes. No one gives him a ghost of a chance of winning the nomination against Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, but Keyes is not merely campaigning. He is crusading.
"Most of the challenges that we face are fundamentally not challenges that money could address," Keyes told another crowd, his speech quickening, his arms rising toward the ceiling. "They are challenges that involve questions about our moral character, our moral understanding, our moral commitment, about the kind of things we do, not because we get money for them, but because they're right."