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To: Osage Orange

RE: “The GOP can go pound sand!! “

That’s exactly what a bunch of us did back in 2006, and joined the Constitution Party, thinking that a lot of other disenfranchised and disillusioned Republican Conservatives would join us.

Try as we might, we could not get our Nominee, Pastor Chuck Baldwin, on the ballot. A WW-II Veteran Pastor was arrested, handcuffed, and hauled off to jail for trying to gather petition signatures for him on the public sidewalk in front of a post office.

We were doing well if we could get 60 people to show up at a State Convention, and only got one small County Committee, IIRC, together.. for a while.

The expected conservative migration did not materialize.

So we tried a write in campaign. I wrote in Chuck Baldwin for President in the ‘08 elections. He was the ONLY pro Life Candidate running in that election that I recall.

Baldwin got about 4/10 of 1% of the vote - so how did that work out for us?

How did the Ross Perot Revolution work out for us before that?

So yeah; we can still tell the GOP to pound proverbial sand... Been there, done that...
but what are our other options, pray tell?
Are any of them the least bit viable?
Please let us know if you find one - but don’t take it personally if I don’t hold my breath waiting.


108 posted on 01/16/2012 2:04:44 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: George Varnum
My option is to get the hell out of the Republican Party....and become once again...an Indie.

If enough...registered Pubbies quit, and became registered Indies, that might get someone's attention. But I don't give a rats ass....I just can't be in the GOP anymore.

I wasn't talking about forming another Party....

145 posted on 01/17/2012 8:40:25 AM PST by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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