Campaign 2012: Campaign
Announcement Candidates of our
own choosing
— Virginia’s electors permitted
to consider an alternate set of
candidates on Dec. 17, (thanks to a
successful grassroots effort). Joseph A. Glean·The
Mount Vernon Statesman· Tuesday,
December 4, 2012
A
campaign announcement, written by
Joseph A.
“Joe” Glean, former candidate
for the Virginia General Assemby
(2011) and former state
chairman of Virginia For Alan
Keyes (2008).
the will,
the means [having lawfully
qualified for equal
consideration at
Virginia’s electoral college],
and the moral
competence
to represent and
effectualize the ‘best’
choice for Virginia.
About Our Candidates
Alan
Keyes,
for President
E.
W. Jackson,
for Vice President
Ambassador Alan
Keyes — former member of the Reagan
administration — is truly a
“Reagan”
American. He is someone who
recognizes the sanctity of human
life; who comprehends the
central importance of preserving our
nation’s moral
sovereignty; who acknowledges
the true supremacy of our
“inalienable,”
“self-evident,” God-given
rights; and who wishes
emphatically to preserve our
country’s national doctrine of
independence and religious freedom.
He is someone who understands the
Constitution’s purpose in placing the rights of our
posterity on an equal level with our
own; who is determined to
abolish the federal income tax (the
mechanism used to fund the political
ambitions of those in
Washington); who advocates the
proper establishment of a national border
guard (to more effectively protect our
nation against occurences of foreign
invasion); and who has long
expressed the need to nominate, to our
United States Supreme Court, individuals
like Alabama’s recently restored
Supreme Court Chief Justice, Judge Roy
Moore [the “Ten Commandments” judge], whose re-election
last month was a welcomed (though long
overdue) vindication of what our
forebears worked so strenuously to
achieve — the right to acknowledge
God, without being made to suffer (on
account of it) “the terrors of
poverty and disgrace, or the fear of
danger or of death.”
We can think of no better way to describe
Alan Keyes than to call him a
“national treasure,” whose
talents were fondly embraced and routinely
utilized by President
Reagan. And yet those very
same talents, which Reagan is said to
have dispatched repeatedly, without
reservation, are [today] being
deliberately passed over, overlooked, and
squandered by those loyal to the GOP
establishment — by those who’ve
dedicated themselves to the practice of
filtering out all voices that do not
conform to the wishes (and neo-secular
persuasions) of those who remain in
control of the party.
In every visible way, Dr. Alan Keyes
represents precisely the kind of good
leadership that is needed to put America
back on track, in terms of fulfilling our
nation’s “moral
obligation” to respect, renew, and
secure those guiding principles of
sovereignty and independence espoused by
our founding charters.
Our campaign initially submitted
Keyes’ name to the Virginia State
Board of Elections (SBE) on Election Day,
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, appointing him
to serve as “substitute candidate
for Vice President,” vice
Darlene Herleikson, write-in candidate,
withdrawn.
Today, however, I wish to announce that
our campaign has drafted its final set of
instructions to the elections board.
As of today, I am withdrawing
my candidacy so that the
candidacy of Alan Keyes may properly
advance to the head of our ticket —
and so that the Frye/White electors will
be enabled to cast their vote
accordingly. Effective
today, Ambassador Alan Keyes is our
campaign’s official “substitute
candidate for President.”
For those who’ve been following
along, it will be instructive to note
that this outcome did not require a
clamorous, million-man convention, where
participants are compelled [by
abandonment of conscience] to signal
their loyalty and moral submission to
party leaders and other political
luminaries.
All it required was a bit
of independent thinking and the God-given
determination of ordinary citizens,
endeavoring to make good use of an avenue
established by our forebears for the
fulfillment of this very
purpose: So that members of
the general public are enabled, with
relative ease, to successfuly
advance candidates of their own choosing
— and enabled to do so in a way that
rightfully and lawfully qualifies those
candidates for equal consideration
at the electoral college, without anyone
having to pay obeisance to the political
parties, the media, the money people, the
special interest groups, or any other
modern manifestation of ivory-tower
elitism.
It is on account of such
“outside” influence that the
candidacy of our political opponent (the
Democrat incumbent, Barack Obama) has
become symbolic of the peerage and
imperialistic workings of the political
elite, the moral subjugation of their
subjects, and the trespass [en masse] of
all those loyal to the partisan
establishment.
And perhaps no
one has recognized this point or
articulated it with better clarity than
Bishop E. W. Jackson, our
“substitute candidate for Vice
President” vice Darlene
Herleikson, withdrawn.
In closing, let me clearly reiterate that
our campaign does not intend to
follow Romney/Ryan or the Republican
party in conceding Virginia to the
Democrat party. We
refuse to do so.
We maintain that our campaign
has rightfully and lawfully
qualified for equal
consideration at the
electoral college. And
for the sake of uniformity and fairness,
we insist that our electors be equipped
with a sufficient way to
“choose” between Obama/Biden
(the choice engineered by the political
parties) and Keyes/Jackson
(the choice constructed by ordinary
citizens) when they convene later this
month.
The most sensible way for the Virginia
State Board of Elections to
accomplish/maintain the semblance of
uniformity is to allow the names of both
our candidates, Alan Keyes
(President) and E. W. Jackson
(Vice President), to be printed on the
‘electoral college’ ballot, so
that the Frye/White electors shall be
enabled to adequately and plainly choose
between the two considerations submitted
to them by the Virginia electorate.
the rights of our
posterity on an equal level with our
own; who is determined to
abolish the federal income tax (the
mechanism used to fund the political
ambitions of those in
Washington); who advocates the
proper establishment of a national border
guard (to more effectively protect our
nation against occurences of foreign
invasion); and who has long
expressed the need to nominate, to our
United States Supreme Court, individuals
like Alabama’s recently restored
Supreme Court Chief Justice, Judge Roy
Moore [the “Ten Commandments” 
judge], whose re-election
last month was a welcomed (though long
overdue) vindication of what our
forebears worked so strenuously to
achieve — the right to acknowledge
God, without being made to suffer (on
account of it) “the terrors of
poverty and disgrace, or the fear of
danger or of death.”
of fulfilling our
nation’s “moral
obligation” to respect, renew, and
secure those guiding principles of
sovereignty and independence espoused by
our founding charters.
As of today, I am withdrawing
my candidacy so that the
candidacy of Alan Keyes may properly
advance to the head of our ticket —
and so that the Frye/White electors will
be enabled to cast their vote
accordingly. Effective
today, Ambassador Alan Keyes is our
campaign’s official “substitute
candidate for President.”
All it required was a bit
of independent thinking and the God-given
determination of ordinary citizens,
endeavoring to make good use of an avenue
established by our forebears for the
fulfillment of this very
purpose: So that members of
the general public are enabled, with
relative ease, to successfuly
advance candidates of their own choosing
— and enabled to do so in a way that
rightfully and lawfully qualifies those
candidates for equal consideration
at the electoral 
college, without anyone
having to pay obeisance to the political
parties, the media, the money people, the
special interest groups, or any other
modern manifestation of ivory-tower
elitism.
