Constitution Party Might Field A Fairly Big Name Candidate

[brooklynite]

Oh, we can only hope...

In an e-mail sent to current and former Constitution Party supporters yesterday, the party's national field director noted that some fairly "big name" conservatives have expressed an interest in being the party's presidential nominee:

* Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, who drew national attention with his refusal to obey a (dubious) federal court order to take down a display of the Tne Commandments from outside the Alabama state court house.

* Former conservative Republican Senator Bob Smith from New Hampshire (1990-2003).

* Alan Keyes, former Ambassador to the UN and a two-time candidate in the Republican presidential primary.

http://www.redstate.com/blogs/mike_griffith/2008/feb/11/constitution_party_might_field_a_fairly_big_name_candidate

[Buzz Clik]

1. Yeah, but these wingnuts think that IUDs and birth control pills are the same as abortion.

I doubt that the impact will be much.

[Richard Steele]

4. I think Roy Moore could siphon a few percent from the Repub side.

He's pretty well-known amongst the rabid Flat-Earth crowd.

I hope he runs.

[eggplant]

2. Where do I send my check?

I'll give to the cause...

[BearSquirrel2]

3. Excellent ...

This is excellent news. They're good and ready to torpedo McCain out of the water and put a Democrat in the whitehouse.

Roy Moore would be a good candidate to draw votes away from McCain. Alan Keyes as always is a joke.

[Me.]

5. Good - 2 More Nutjobs On The Right To Mess With Their Choosing Of A Nom

Hope these wackos jump in and he;p their heads explode along with what Huckleberry.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

6. oh please please please please please please please please

:D

[SpiralHawk]

7. Bobo Smith? WTF?

He's down there at the bottom of the republicon pigpile with Jughead Gregg, another non-illustrious republicon crony with a Granite State of Mind...

[LiberalEsto]

8. Keyes is completely

cuckoo.

:crazy:

[originalpckelly]

9. Where can I donate to Roy Moore 2008?

Dayum, that's perfect. McCain will piss of the evangelicals, and the US Constitution party will spoil the election like the greenies did 2000! :rofl:

[Virginia Dare]

10. They should run Alan Keyes and David Duke together..

that would cover all the bases...:evilgrin: maybe Phyllis Schlafly can be their Sec Def?

[Disturbed]

12. CONSTITUTION PARTY

CONSTITUTION PARTY - Former Nixon Administration official and one-time Conservative Coalition chair Howard Phillips founded the US Taxpayers Party (USTP) in 1992 as a potential vehicle for Pat Buchanan to use for a third party White House run -- had he agreed to bolt from the GOP in 1992 or 1996.

The USTP pulled together several of the splintered right-wing third parties -- including the once mighty American Independent Party -- into a larger, more visible political entity. Renamed as the Constitution Party in 1999, the party is strongly pro-life, anti-gun control, anti-tax, anti-immigration, protectionist, "anti-New World Order," anti-United Nations, anti-gay rights, anti-welfare, pro-school prayer ... basically a hardcore Religious Right platform.

When Buchanan stayed in the GOP, Phillips ran as the USTP nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 21 states - 43,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot spots in 39 states - 185,000 votes - 6th place - 0.2%) -- and 2000 (ballot status in 41 states - 98,000 votes - 6th place - 0.1%). The party started fielding local candidates in 1994. Still, for a new third party attempting to grow, the party has fielded disappointingly few local candidates since 1998 (and the few they nominated have not performed well).

The party received a brief boost in the media when conservative US Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire -- an announced GOP Presidential hopeful -- bolted from the Republican Party to seek the Constitution Party nomination in 2000 (although the erratic Smith quit the Constitution Party race a few weeks later, announced he would serve in the Senate as an Independent, and subsequently rejoined the GOP by the ebd of 2000).

At the 1999 national convention, the party narrowly adopted a controversial change to its platform's preamble which declared "that the foundation of our political position and moving principle of our political activity is our full submission and unshakable faith in our Savior and Redeemer, our Lord Jesus Christ" -- although the party officially invites "all citizens of all faiths" to become active in the party. Any national candidate seeking the party's nomination is explicitly required to tell the convention of any areas of disagreement with the party's platform.

In Spring 2002, Pat Buchanan's 2000 VP runningmate Ezola Foster and many Reform Party leaders from California and Maryland defected to the Constitution Party, providing a nice boost to the party. Conservative attorney Michael Peroutka was the CP's 2004 Presidential nominee (ballot status in 36 states - 144,000 votes - 5th place - 0.1%).

Immigration reform activist Jim Gilchrist -- a close ally of Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and founder of the controversial "Minuteman Project" civilian border patrols -- appears likely to be the party's 2008 nominee. The Constitution Party appear to have generally cemented their place as the third largest third party in the nation.

[Virginia Dare]

11. Dupe.....sorry..n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Thought Alan Keyes was running as a Republican. He can't be a nominee of two parties.