The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

While Keene was Chairman of the American Conservative Union (1984-2011) he fought to allow the right-leaning gay rights organization GOProud to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference. " He has been critical of the Patriot Act and has worked with the American Civil Liberties Union to limit the effects of the act. He was then counsel at the Carmen Group a lobbying firm based in Washington D.

David A. From 1984–2011 he was the chairman of the American Conservative Union.