http://www.constitutionparty.com/
Life: For all human beings, from conception to natural death;
Liberty: Freedom of conscience and actions for the self-governed individual;
Family: One husband and one wife with their children as divinely instituted;
Property: Each individual's right to own and steward personal property without government burden;
Constitution: and Bill of Rights interpreted according to the actual intent of the Founding Fathers;
States' Rights: Everything not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government, nor prohibited by the Constitution to the states, is reserved to the states or to the people;
American Sovereignty: American government committed to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, and not entangled in foreign alliances.
This is a real dilemma for me this year. My heart is 100% on board with the Constitution Party. My head is telling me that at whatever cost Comrade Zero must go, or there won’t be an America by 2016.
I looked at the Constitution Party website several elections ago.
Their domestic platforms sounded pretty good.
They fell flat on foreign policy, however. They seemed more like Ron Paul. They were advocating isolationsim, which is impractical in the current world.
Hardly seems like news: My 2008 presidential ballot had seven other choices besides Obama/McCain. Been that way since I remember.
IOW another sucker party.
I rank this group as likely winning anything as the “Birthday Party” (yes that is a real political party)
To come up with tested leadership is not so easy.
The right seems to go through "flavors of the week" like playing cards...Cain, Bachmann, Fred Thompson, Alan Keyes, Rick Perry, etc. etc. They talk great but the right gets disillusioned with them when they don't seem able to stand up under fire.
You gotta have more than good words. Executive leadership skills MATTER.
First, I'm extremely unhappy with the direction the Republican Party seems to be going,
Second, I'm a conservative Christian and I have strong sympathy for the core convictions of many of the Constitution Party's leaders, and
Third, I'm quite aware of the precedent of the Whig Party and I don't want to totally rule out the possibility of a third party destroying one of the two existing parties of American politics.
However, for those who are prepared to jump ship and vote not only against Romney but also against the whole Republican ticket, read this post and then take a second and third look at what you're doing: http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2865260/posts?page=162#162
Counting the cost before starting a project is a biblical imperative.
As I said in the post referenced above: “Here's the main problem with applying that precedent to the Constitution Party: single-member winner-take-all voting districts... The problem in the United States is that in most state and local elections (West Virginia's multimember districts being an important exception) the only thing that counts is having enough votes to get to 50 percent of the voters, or in some cases not even an absolute majority is needed and all a candidate needs is to get the largest number of votes... If we as conservatives are going to talk third-party, recognize that we need to count the cost. That cost is very steep, and while some argue it could be a good idea long-term, for the short- and medium-term, it could easily get President Obama re-elected, turn the House of Representatives back over to the control of the Democratic Party, and cost numerous Republican senators their seats.”
Is the Democrat Party financiing this? They will siphon votes away from Republicans, who are far from perfect but opposed to the radical-liberalism of the DemocRATS.
Number of votes for governor or president:
2010 - 20,818 - and that includes my vote over a RINO
2008 - 14,685 - against McCain
2006 - 7,087
2004 - 4,980
2002 - 12,411
2000 - 3,791
It takes well over 2 million votes to even be in the ballgame here for a statewide win. I'm not interested in suicide missions. I want to win. The way to do that is by taking over the GOP, and that is a 20 year+ sustained operation. 3rd parties are protest votes. That's the way it is, was, and probably always will be.
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Sounds like a good thing to me