Comments on: Chuck Baldwin Declares for Constitution Party Presidential Nomination

By: Sam Adams

Sam Adams — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:21:49 +0000

CP the Taliban party ? Not hardly. It’s the most consistent party of Constitutional advocates, period. Now it is made up of a high percentage of Christians, true enough. But the label “Taliban” suggests they would advocate NO separation of Church & State, which is not at all true. What the CP does recognize, is that one’s moral framework does provide the Foundation of Law by which one will govern. And the reason that they hold to Christianity is that they are observing what America’s founders acknowledged, namely ‘The laws of Nature & of Nature’s God’ (Natural Law theory & Biblical Revelation) form a proper foundation.
The Founders were influenced by some rationalistic & deisic thought, but were mostly Orthodox Christians. While supporting the ‘freedom of religion’, they saw the first amendment as forming chains on Civil Government, preventing it from taking ANY aggressive action towards the churches (which COULD include attempting to establish a sole religious franchise, a National Church, they wisely forbid it to do).
It’s well said that they would have wanted churches to be free from State intervention, they would never have advocated that the State be free from accountability to God. It’s either this, or they were very double minded to have referenced ‘unalienable rights, endowed by our Creator’, and signed the documents in the ‘year of the LORD’.

The LP, for me doesn’t work as well as the CP, becuase it wants the fruit of Liberty, without acknowledging the Spritual root, something that I’m glad the Founding Fathers were very clear on affirming.

So, labeling the Constitution Party the ‘Taliban’ won’t wash. Unless you want to call America’s Founding Fathers the Taliban.

Sam Adams

By: Phil Sawyer

Phil Sawyer — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:42:29 +0000

Ralph Nader for president and Matt Gonzalez for vice president!

By: Ken Gillespie

Ken Gillespie — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:30:07 +0000

What we need is people from all parties to unite behind the only true Constitutionalist man running, Ron Paul.

By: Steve Rankin

Steve Rankin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:05:30 +0000

I don’t see this proposed coalition happening. The Constitution Party, e.g., is strongly pro-life, while the Libertarians are silent on that issue, since there are both pro-life and ‘pro-choice’ Libertarians. And I can’t see the CP joining any coalition that includes the Greens.

The CP platform also calls for trade protectionism, which I believe the LP opposes.

I have a Libertarian friend who refers to the CP as the “Taliban Party.”

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:53:12 +0000

Yes Richard,

I believe you are correct on that point, although I wish you weren’t. I’d write-in Ron Paul in a heart-beat. As it stands, it would likely be counted as only a spoiled ballot.

I like David Macko’s suggestion, though my reading indicates that there a number of purists in the LP who blanche at those who are less than perfectly consistent in their ideology. Still, they would be freely agreeing to a coalition…. Hmmm. Let us check this out!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:30:36 +0000

35 states won’t count write-ins unless the write-in candidate submits an declaration of write-in candidacy. Ron Paul wouldn’t do that, so write-in votes in most states would be thrown in the wastebasket and the voter’s vote would be wasted. 5 states don’t permit write-ins at all.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:48:05 +0000

Some states do not allow write in votes. Also, the freedom rEVOLution has to be about more than just Ron Paul. Bob Barr is also very pro-freedom. I support him on the LP ticket. I also support the so called “Ron Paul Republicans” running for various offices nationwide.

By: Reeves Mollman

Reeves Mollman — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:15:09 +0000

Everyone needs to stay focused on one candidate:
Ron Paul
All other candidates are unknown to the public, but people know Dr. Paul’s name now.
We must all put Dr. Pauls name as a write in candidate in the Presidential election in November.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:32:39 +0000

Alan Keyes lacks the integrity that I want to see in a 3rd party guy. Mary Ruwart of the Libertarian Party is an absolutely fantastic human being and I’m leaning towards her. Bob Barr has the wider name recognition, though he is still a recovering Republican.

By: David Macko

David Macko — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:23:37 +0000

This is the time to implement a very successful morally neutral technique of the Enemy, the United Front. I recommend that the National Committee of the Libertarian Party invite members of the Constitution Party, smaller alternate patriotic parties and even possibly the Greens, on the basis of their opposition to the war and the police state and support for honest elections, to join together if only for this year to create a unified resistance against the Bolshevik/Trotskyite party duopoly. Certainly, the revulsion against Obama, Clinton and McCain by every decent person who has studied their careers should be sufficient motivation to do so.