Posted on 04/20/2012 8:56:41 AM PDT by DannyTN
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/2012/apr/20/laurie-roth-vies-constitution-party-nomination-president/
The self-described Annie Oakley of the Airwaves says she was called by God about a year ago to make the campaign journey from her doublewide trailer in Elk, Wash., to the White House and turn the nation around. I am the comeback kid. I am the Seabiscuit story, Roth, a 51-year-old mother of two, said. America is road kill, and so was I.
On Saturday she'll find out if the Constitution Party, one of the nations largest third party organizations, will choose her to lead their ticket in the fall election. Shes one of three main candidates, along with Virgil Goode, a former Republican congressman from Virginia and Robby Wells, a former college football coach, seeking the support of the conservative political party at its national convention in Nashville
Shes campaigning on a shoestring she relied on donations to attend that partys debate in Michigan two weeks ago and to make the trip to this weeks convention in Nashville and will have to run a low-budget, outside the box campaign if selected. She hopes to capture the national medias attention, use her broadcasters communication skills to connect with the public, tap social media, pick up the Tea Party vote, the Democrats unhappy with Barack Obama, the Republicans unhappy with Mitt Romney, the independents unhappy with both and be the first president from a new party since that tall, lanky guy from Illinois in 1860. Its a tough road, but shes not worried: Its kind of a miracle to be this far.
Roth hosts a three-hour radio show on weeknights that is syndicated to 45 stations, including KSBN, an AM station in Spokane. She regularly raises the alarm that America is straying from conservative, Christian principles. Shes big on the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Ronald Reagan. President Barack Obama is a usurper with a forged birth certificate that has America teetering on a Marxist cliff. Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney is conservative poser who waffles on abortion and gay marriage, and authored a big-government health care system. Muslim terrorists should be told Mecca and Medina would be incinerated into glass for any new attack on U.S. soil.
A former singer whod hosted radio talk shows in larger cities, Roth was working in Spokane in 2005 when she collided with a deer one night on her motorcycle, landing face first on the ground. The deer died, and she, too, was almost road kill.
Helicoptered to a hospital near death, she was in a coma for two weeks then faced questions of whether shed ever walk or talk again. She had no health insurance, and her show was dropped by the radio network. She went through months of physical and speech therapy, and a year after the accident was back on the air.
My left eye wont work right. Im numb from my lips down, Roth said. She had to relearn how to speak. She became a popular speaker at conservative meetings and Tea Party gatherings. In December 2010, she was elected vice chairwoman of the Spokane County Republican Party, part of a compromise that split leadership posts between different factions of the GOP, party sources said. On the one side were traditional or establishment conservatives and on the other were a coalition of former Libertarians who had backed Ron Paul for president and evangelical Christians. Roth was identified with the latter.
Last summer she told party officials she was stepping down to run for president, County Chairman Matt Pederson said. At the time she planned to run as an independent, and couldnt also be an official of a major party. God put that on my heart a year ago, Roth said of her decision to run. She wrote a book, The Peoples President, that outlines her platform. Among the ideas is replacing the federal income tax and all other federal taxes with a point of purchase tax that collects 2 percent for every transaction, whether buying groceries, a car or a block of stocks. She contends it would raise between $10 trillion and $20 trillion a year and wipe out the debt in four years. Its a simple idea so simple one might wonder why it hasnt been tried already.
Its not popular with a government that wants to control the publics buying habits and uses the Internal Revenue Service to exercise that control, she contends. Plans to run as an independent ran up against the hard reality of meeting different rules in 50 states to qualify for the ballot. Its a nightmare if youre an independent, she said.
Roth began looking at third party organizations, which have easier access to ballots in many states, and found the Constitution Party which believes in strict adherence to its namesake document, Christian principles and low taxes a good fit. She thinks its pretty close to the Republican Party, the classic, very pro-life, very conservative Republican Party, not the sell out, 50-yard line, establishment Republican Party.
She secured the support of the state Constitution Party organizations in Washington, California and Missouri to seek the nomination, participated in a series telephone conference debates, and makes a speech to the convention delegates today. FRIDAY.
If she doesnt get the top spot, Roth said she isnt interested in the vice presidential slot if offered. Shed have to pray on how to move forward on a presidential quest.
If nominated, she can keep her radio show until August, when the Republican and Democratic conventions formally pick their nominees. Shell get guests hosts during the fall campaign, and FCC regulations allow her to make appearances. She wont be able to overtly campaign, but the hosts will be able to interview her on how the campaign is going.
And if elected? Id do the show from the White House, she said. I would be a unique president.
I posted that one poorly. The article is in post 1.
Anyone know anything about these three?
Sadly, she’s better than Mitt Romney.
The GOP-E screwed him big time in 2010, and so he has no love for Rove and company.
wouldn’t it be awesome if Palin jumped into this party?
It would, but considering that the party's nominating convention is this weekend in Nashville, I don't see that happening.
There are some component's of this party's platform that I don't like. Especially wanting a gold standard which would be an economic fiasco, and leaving gay marriage to the states, which assures we will have gay marriage.
But compared to the two candidates running that are both pro-sodomy and pro-abortion and pro-socialist this party doesn't look bad.
Can’t argue there. Not crazy about the gay marriage and gold things but I’m willing to punt on those issues for now.
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