I enthusiastically supported Alan Keyes in the 2000 presidential race.
Your enthusiasm was misplaced. Keyes was never anything but the front man for the agenda of the Jєωιѕн neocons (not that there is truly any other kind of neocon). It isn't merely a coincidence that his roommate in college was William Kristol. In all three of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaigns, Keyes's candidacy was funded and promoted by those, Jєωs especially, whose primary aim was to destroy Buchanan, in part by deceiving his natural constituency that Keyes would do everything that Buchanan would do but would do it even better—and he would have the added virtue of being black. It is hardly a coincidence that Keyes never closed ranks behind Buchanan. In 1992, when Keyes withdrew from campaigning, he threw his support to the elder Bush; in 1996, he threw it to Dole, and in 2000, to W.
The importance of Keyes's blackness to his enthusiastic supporters cannot be overstated. "Virtue signaling" wasn't yet a familiar expression twenty-five years ago, but in fact the sense of feeling good about oneself because of wanting to vote for a black (pseudo-)conservative served to cloud awareness of Keyes's background and policy prescriptions in a clear majority of his white Christian supporters. One of those policy prescriptions was complete subservience to Israeli and Jєωιѕн interests. How's that for a Buchananite policy!