Posted on 01/16/2008 1:15:09 PM PST by locke22
EUREKA Ca: 01/167/08 Old Glory Media - Mary Starrett, Communications Director of the Constitution Party, announced today, in conjunction with her radio interview with Old Glory Radio 16 Jan 08, that the Constitution Party has drafted a resolution encouraging current Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul to run as the Constitution Party candidate for President in the 2008 Election.
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He wont get any votes from liberals because they don’t respect the constitution. His votes could only come from conservatives who don’t like the GOP nominee. Smells like Perot from ‘92.
lolz
Awww man, and I was considering them as a fallback position should the GOP nominate someone completely unacceptable. There goes that.
If Paul and say Bloomie run ya gotta think they take away from the nut job dems much more then the Pubbies.
Run Ron Paul as an constitution candidate ya nutjob.
If Hillary is the Dem candidate, ElRon as a third party candidate would pull more votes from the left than from the right.
All the “disaffected yoots” who are basically socialists but distrust Hillary, like, for sure would vote for ElRon.
So, in that case, GO FOR IT, ELRON!
(Against Obama, I’m not so sure.)
Excellent point!
Well, Well... Let me say it again, “ROn Paul will run on a third party ticket”. I’ve said it over and over, and people keep telling me “He isn’t going to, he said so”.
Ever heard a politician, especially one that has already LIED a dozen or more times publicly whose lips were moving that WASN’T lying???????
An excellent fit for Paul which I’ve suggested several times in the past. They’re virulently antiwar, and they’ll be willing to embrace the less savory elements amongst his supporters. Nothing to prevent him from running on the Libertarian slate as well. Between the two, you could be looking at upwards of a half percent.
The Constitution Party just nail their own coffin shut.
The folks I personally know who are supporting him (disclosure: 3 of them) are folks I formerly would have considered to be pseudo-reliable Republicans, in the Pat Buchanan isolationist mold. Not entirely sure who they might end up supporting in ‘08 in a 3rd party Paul candidacy, but I know it won’t be any of the current crop of Democrats. So of course I am somewhat interested.
They've already expelled the hard pro-life wing from the party by banishing former nominee Michael Peroutka and they are really pushing the anti-war, anti-PATRIOT Act, pro-Palestinian stuff lately.
Meanwhile they maintain their links to the racist fringe via their alliance with The League Of The South.
So Ron Paul, with his Truther-Nazi-Code Pink coalition should fit nicely.
He’s perfect for that position. Do it Ron!
Couple of old threads, on the war and immigration, which is their selling point.
The Constitution Party on the War on Terror
Constitution Party on Immigration
And of course an interview with Peroutka, by Mark Danoff (he's a fit, wonder if he wrote any newsletters), and to my knowledge published no where by al Jazeera. Sounds a lot like Paul.
U.S Constitution Party An Interview With the Presidential Candidate Michael Peroutka
That's interesting. I actually know one of the CP bigwigs ... a founding member, in fact. Her excuse for the whole thing is based on the Republicans being insufficiently pro-life.
The Nevada party ran a pro-abort locally and Peroutka demanded that the national party disaffiliate the soft-on-abortion NV party.
Peroutka was overruled and his MD party wound up breaking off from the national CP while the NV party stayed with the CP.
Technically, the antional party claims to be pro-life, but the NV situation shows how flexible they are in practice.
Like most third parties and fringe groups, the CP are more about separating suckers from their disposable income than internal discipline.
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