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Constitution Party aims to thwart Hillary, GOP
WorldNetDaily ^ | 12/03/2006

Posted on 12/04/2006 10:01:36 AM PST by NapkinUser

As Hillary Clinton begins her own preparations to run for the presidency, the deciding factor of who will be the next commander in chief may have less to do with whomever is chosen as the Democrat or Republican nominee, and more to do with the choice of the Constitution Party.

This weekend at a national committee meeting in Manchester, N.H., Howard Phillips and the Constitution Party he founded set in motion the plans to launch its own third party candidate for president.

"The time has never been better for a third party dark horse candidate to grab the White House," Phillips told WND.

He affirmed that by next July, his party intends to nominate a presidential candidate, with possibilities for the ticket including Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist, former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes, Baptist pastor Chuck Baldwin, and author and WND columnist Jerome Corsi.

The Constitution Party is also strongly supportive of Republican Congressmen Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul, but there is no decision yet that either would leave their home in the Republican Party to pursue a Constitution Party nomination. Tancredo has said numerous times he is considering a run for the presidency.

"The American public are angry at both the Democratic and Republican Party," Phillips said. "If neither major party wants to listen to the American middle class, the Constitution Party is ready to enter center stage and get back to the basics that have made the republic established by our founding fathers work for over 230 years."

The meeting was highlighted by a lineup of well-known conservative speakers, including those who may end up running.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


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To: Arizona Carolyn; All

To be honest I don't trust McCain either, again there is something I don't like, but if he is the candidate I will support him. I'm not going to waste my vote on either the Losertarian Party or the Constitpation Party....


221 posted on 12/04/2006 7:31:16 PM PST by KevinDavis (Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Alas, it appears, unless someone of Reagan's rare abilities materializes, that we are going to suffer a lot more before it's over- not to mention the possibility of your scenario. It is a sad time.
222 posted on 12/04/2006 7:31:25 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I swear I think I have that!


223 posted on 12/04/2006 7:33:06 PM PST by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: Howlin

You're kidding? Wonder why Amazon keeps back-ordering it?


224 posted on 12/04/2006 8:08:12 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: KevinDavis

Oh, you are absolutely smart to not trust McCain... I only hope people actually show up in the primary season to vote for someone other than McCain... like I say until I'm blue in the face, we change directions during the Primary, not the general election.


225 posted on 12/04/2006 8:10:24 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn; All

Well a lot of people needs to hear that message..


226 posted on 12/04/2006 8:15:28 PM PST by KevinDavis (Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
All that will do is draw off the GOP, won't touch the Dems.

The historical record supports your claim. Nader's third party candidacy drew off enough votes to bring about Al Gore's defeat in 2000. The Perot voters in 1992 and 1996 would have probably broken 2:1 in favor of the elder Bush and Bob Dole. Had that occurred, Clinton might have been defeated.

This country has not had a successful new party since 1856, when the Republicans replaced the Whigs as a successful opposition party. However, third parties do have an ideological impact. The People's (Populist) Party in the 1890s and the Progressive and Socialist Parties in the early 1900s drew from the same base of small farmers and urban workers that had been the Democrats' base since the days of Thomas Jefferson. In response, the Democrats shifted from being a party of weak Federal power, sound money, and low taxes to becoming a centralist, inflationary, and tax and spend party. Grover Cleveland, the last Jeffersonian President, was more conservative than Calvin Coolidge. A mere 40 years later, Franklin Roosevelt was our first modern liberal President.

The threat of a third party on the right flank could have the effect of restraining a Republican lurch to the left. Alan Keyes or Tom Tancredo may never win, but if they have ballot position in 50 states and a decent war chest, they could easily draw 5% of the vote in a race between Hillary and a RINO. Given the tightness of the last four Presidential elections, 5% would be more than enough to ensure a Democrat victory. The GOP leadership no doubt realizes this, and will hopefully take measures, other than screaming "sit down and shut up" at the conservatives.

227 posted on 12/05/2006 5:28:50 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

What is more disconcerting about our party is in an article in our paper this morning (from a WaPO editorial) which bears out the poll Neal Boortz quoted, that the libertarian arm of the GOP is growing and at the same time becoming disenchanted with the conservative wing of the party... they also feel they are larger and don't have to bend to the conservatives any longer. It went on to point out the GOP has been virtually eliminated in many Northern states and is fast losing ground in the West and parts of the South.


228 posted on 12/05/2006 11:25:47 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn
The Christian Right made several crucial mistakes in the 1980s and 1990s for which they have paid. The most fundamental error was to assume that the best way to correct the societal ills caused by liberalism was by putting "good people" into positions of power and passing legislation and Constitutional amendments, such as the Human Life Amendment to correct permissive and anti-family legislation and court decisions. Except for a few places like Colorado Springs and some suburbs of Phoenix, Denver, and Los Angeles/San Diego, the Republican base in the Western states is primarily not evangelical. Barry Goldwater, a nominal Episcopalian, not Jesse Helms, a devout Baptist, is the prototype of a Western Republican. (I'm not counting the RINO types in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.) Wyoming, one of the most Republican of all states, has one of the lowest percentage of churchgoers in the country.

When the Christian Right did step outside of the realm of social issues, it often stumbled, much as the Prohibitionists did in the early 20th Century, when they supported big government measures like the establishment of a central bank or railroad regulation in exchange for the Progressives' support of Prohibition. In like manner, the Christian Right endorsed President Bush's "faith based" social programs, even though they represented an additional expansion of Federal power. Several, including the recently fired director of the Christian Coalition, attempted an outreach to the environmentalists, even though such people are anathema to the mineral, lumber, farming, and ranching interests.

An appeal to the principles of the Sagebrush Rebellion in the 1970s may help the GOP regain ground in the West.

229 posted on 12/05/2006 12:44:58 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

Not a bad analysis.

It points, also, to the genius of Reagan: he embodied all aspects of conservatism: westernism, social conservatism, southern populism, Wall Street supply side conservatism, and aggressive foreign policy/cold war neoconservatism.

That is why he won.

The next successful GOP leader will need to do the same.

So far, I don't see any volunteers.


230 posted on 12/05/2006 1:00:24 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: Vigilanteman
[ If the Republicans do something stupid like nominate McCain, they could potentially increase that by a factor of 10 to, say, 6%, virtually assuring the witch at least a four year reign with a majority in both houses of congress. ]

The witch is already assured of election.. A portion of 20 to 30 million legal and illegal aliens VOTING(democrat) will guarantee it..

You know like in 2006.. 2006 was just openers.. Any that say other are in denial.. Voting demographics in this country are ALREADY skewed.. not WILL BE...

231 posted on 12/05/2006 1:11:47 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole)
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To: NapkinUser; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; hedgetrimmer
WorldNetDaily: Constitution Party aims to thwart Hillary, GOP

LP: Constitution Party aims to thwart Hillary, GOP

232 posted on 12/05/2006 2:21:00 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, geese, algae)
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To: NapkinUser

I don't mind Gilchrist or Keyes. However, I would rather not let Corsi have a national platform from which to tilt at phantom NAFTA superhighways.


233 posted on 12/05/2006 2:44:25 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Mashed potatoes, gravy, and cranberry sauce! Wooooooo-oooooooo!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I second that: the GOP will just have to (learn this lesson, over and over again I fear) that we should not be a moderate party, we shuld be the Conservative party and support conservatives. (ALA They should have let their distrust of Conservatives DIE once the Primary was OVER, but NO; just goes to show that "moderates" have true RR Conservatives and are willing to be vindictive to prove their hatred!


234 posted on 12/07/2006 9:59:07 PM PST by JSDude1 (www.pence08.com)
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To: ConservativeDude

Yeah someone like Conservative leader in teh House Representative Mike Pence.


235 posted on 12/07/2006 10:01:02 PM PST by JSDude1 (www.pence08.com)
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To: NapkinUser
The GOP, and the democrats, are big-spenders. Is that being denyed now also?

Apparently, and appropriately, nobody denied this.

236 posted on 01/05/2007 11:03:29 PM PST by The_Eaglet
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