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I guess the Constitution Party has found their man.

Doing his hopefully very very small part to help reelect Hussein.

If he really believes his claim he’d take “as many votes from Obama” then he’s an idiot. Gary Johnson will get a few Paulbot and left-libertarian votes that otherwise would go to Obama but the Constitution party, I don’t think so.

Meant to ping you too.

Virgil Goode had a pretty good record in office. Aside from his idiotic stance that you shouldn't be sworn into office unless you use a Christian bible (the U.S. Constitution explictly says otherwise, hopefully he will admit this if he runs on the Constitution Party ticket), I have no complains.

I'd crawl over broke glass to vote for ANY Republican over Obama (even someone to the left of Romney like Huntsman) IF my vote mattered, but I've gotten quite cynical over the last decade as Illinois seems to always go RAT no matter what we do. Given the fact I'm in "Obama's home state" and I doubt the GOP will even TRY to win, I'd consider voting for Goode if the GOP nominated a real untrustworthy smileball. I voted for McCain 4 years ago simply because Palin was his running mate. While I can't say I regret that vote, nor can I say voting Republican for President accomplished anything (according to the official totals, during Obama-mania, McCain won 37% of the vote in my pct. without lifting a finger to campaign here, whereas Bill Brady "won" 33% of the vote in my pct. 2 years later while working his butt off to campaign in suburban Crook County against a Democrat NOBODY likes. Nah. Pay no attention to that oddity, there's no vote fraud here. Right.)

So if anyone is in a safe GOP state like Oklahoma or safe RAT state like California, I wouldn't cast judge if they vote for Goode over a RINO. Of course, I would never advocate doing so if you're in a hotly contested state like Colorado. Votes for third party conservatives do indeed risk handing the election to the RATs in those states, look no further than Bob Baar's vote total in N.C. (where he was the ONLY third party candidate on the ballot), compared to Obama's margin of victory in the state. Without Baar, that state's electoral votes would have gone to the Republican. And it was especially foolish for conservatives to vote for "Libertarian" Baar since he spent that campaign renouncing all the decent thing he did in Congress like passing the defense of marriage act.

Of course, that's a big "if", since we don't even know if the Constitution Party will nominate Goode yet. (I can see why he's running, being out of office he has nothing to lose. That's another one even worse than Santorum though-- I can't figure out how a RAT won his district since it's super conservative and Goode himself only won there by being a total DINO.). Also, I think the Keyes people still control the AIP in California. If the CP has any brains, I hope they're working out a truce there where the AIP will endorse Goode if he's the CP nominee. We'll see.

Goode is from my district. This is nuts. Being a ticket splitter would destroy his future and certainly not strip away any 0 votes.

I wouldn’t worry too much about Goode though. With the speed that anti-Romney votes shift from one leader to the next, I’d say that voters are determined to stop the silly games which have divided us in the past. At least until the man with a secret middle name is out the door.