> Portsmouth Herald
> KEYES SAYS POLITICS, FAMILY SAD 
> By Jane Murphy, Herald Staff, 12/8/95
   
>     PORTSMOUTH - Republican presidential hopeful Alan Keyes says American
> politics is in as sad a state as the family is.
>    ``There shouldn't be a difference'' between running for president and
> getting a message out, Keyes said during an interview with the Portsmouth
> Herald's editorial board yesterday as he lamented that money and media often
> win elections, not messages. ``Notice that they don't go hand in hand. That's
> what's disintegrating American politics 
> today.''
>    He said he's succeeding in getting his message out, though he's often not
> included in the ranks of major presidential candidates. He defends the
> results he perceives as ``happening by word of mouth ... There's no way of
> measuring it.''
>    Keyes, a former assistant secretary of state in the Reagan Administration
> and ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, called his
> ``a stealth campaign. It's stealth technology that works. I don't care if I'm
> not on any of their radar 
> screens.''
>    He said his campaign doesn't ``run on money, on media coverage, on
> celebrity. We run on people working.''
>    ``Elections are more and more becoming shams,'' he said, noting the focus
> is on who's going to win, ``when the voter needs to think about who ought to
> win.'' He discounted polls as manipulated by those who take them, reporting
> examples where his name was not even listed as a choice.
>    His message goes to the root of all the country's problems, he said, ``the
> breakdown of the family.'' The missing adhesive is people ``living as if
> there's something more important in life than you.''
>    He declined to define the world ``family,'' but said a family is a
> ``biological given'' of ``mothers and fathers having babies'' and that those
> related in other ways such as by adoption are ``a family by analogy.''
>    ``We will not be able to sustain family if we redefine the family out of
> existence,'' Keyes said.
>    In explaining his stands on issues, Keyes quotes frequently from the
> Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and said that the problem
> with American society today is that it is ``redefining human nature so that
> we're not responsible for our behavior.'' 
>    This happens when a society justifies abortion, which he opposes, and
> imposes gun control, which he also opposes.
>    He called the separation of church and state is ``an invented doctrine''
> which he found no basis for in his study of the Constitution.
>    ``More and more, we have no respect for people's rights. That's the
> disease we're suffering from,'' said Keyes.