Posted on 01/16/2008 1:15:09 PM PST by locke22
The CP believes in having their cake and eating it too.
The Constitution Party received about 5% of the vote in the 2006 Oregon Governors race(Mary Starrett was the candidate). After the election, she became the darling of the antiIraqwar chowderheads and her 3 lectures in Portland drew 50-100 each of the more feverent BDS practioners. Interestingly, her entire campaign was directed at economic policies/governmental interference...not once did she mention Iraq or isolationism.
Not Ross Perot numbers, but,combined with the other 3rd parties, could siphon off enough votes to give some western states to Queen Hillary.
That should be amusing.
Umm. No. - from your link:
Q: What is the LS position regarding blacks in the South?
A: The LS disavows a spirit of malice and extends an offer of good will and cooperation to Southern blacks in areas where we can work together as Christians to make life better for all people in the South.
We affirm that, while historically the interests of Southern blacks and whites have been in part antagonistic, true Constitutional government would provide protection to all law-abiding citizens — not just to government-sponsored victim groups.
Cool - is this a trade?
Do we get a conservative to be named later?
A fifth round draft pick?
Well, so much for any interest I had in the Constitution Party.
That doesn't change their membership or their donors.
BINGO !
Soros money and moonbats rallying to prop him up in the phoney on-line polls just so he could suck fool votes from "Libertarian"-leaning Republicans.
What a plan (surprising how many even on FR buy into this fringe crap).
If nothing else it’ll be interesting to see what happens when the folks who define libertarianism according the platform of the Libertarian Party try shoe-horning this into their political word processor.
They run candidates like Mark Dankoff, certainly fringe, but right back to the Willis Carto/Ron Paul connection. Dankoff contributes to the American Free Press, and is on Republicradio.
To what extent they're serious versus peddling code I don't know, but the Constitution isn't based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the CP is mistaken. We are not governed by biblical law, they're wrong on that too. And we haven't in the past and present offered asylum to non-Christians. We actually let non-Christians be American citizens, have since our founding. They should at least include the future.
Paul will be a fit, and the CP will have no problem at all with his nutball supporters.
Sorry, but I’m not disputing “Fringe” - That may not even be an insult after looking carefully at the modern political parties. 8^)
I am disputing the pejorative term “racist.”
I don’t think I brought them up, I’m not that familiar with their position on blacks, certainly racists associate with them, but I don’t know if their proposals for a new Southern nation are racially exclusive. My impression is that they are religiously exclusive. I’m comfortable describing them as fringe, and that the CP won’t have any particular concerns with Paul’s racist support.
You didn’t bring them up.
It was bought up to you in a reply by another poster and so I added your name to the poster’s.
I actually never heard of them before today, and I live in Florida.
Associating with RP will bring no group anything that they want as far as I can see.
Couldn't agree more.
Ron Paul's motto: "Sometimes you feel like a nut and I am one!" Paul is a nutjob extraordinaire!
Then why aren't they voting for him in the primaries? I keep hearing the "he's a Democrat plant" conspiracy theory being whined, but no one's ever been able to produce anything to back it up. Where are the hordes of liberal cross-overs the anti-Paul nuts keep hallucinating about?
There goes my respect for the Constitution Party.
If Paul’s positions are 100% in line with the CP, then I’ve misread the CP platform. Now I’m really depressed.
“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.”
Not all people who express concerns about personal liberties (re: Patriot Act) are leftist on that account.
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