I hate to break this to you, but Alan Keyes is inherently incapable of putting anything "back on a burner." It's more like putting the Obama birth-certificate non-controversy into a broken microwave that isn't even plugged in, and having some crazy person keep pushing buttons...
forgotten but not gone
Of course person whose opinions nobody cares about James Carville wants Harold Ford to replace Howard Dean. After all, this is the man who thought that Zell Miller would be.