*whew*
The very concept of Alan Keyes has set Steve Gilliard off as I have never seen before. Even I have never laid into Black Conservatives™ in like fashion.
I have to say, though, that the number of Black Conservatives I've heard that do not meet his description is vanishingly small.
I keep talking about post-election discussions, and I'm consciously suspending judgment on a number of folks until then. But I'll tell you it was the reading the stuff produced by the first wave of Black Conservatives™ in the early 90s that set me off politically. And yes, Uncle Clarence was the last nail in the coffin bearing any possibility for my respecting the Black Conservative™ phenomenon as currently configured.