Dude, When the Constitution Party Won’t Take You
Alan Keyes beat out for the Constitution Party nomination for President:
The Permanent Candidate has failed to win the nomination of the paleoconservative Constitution Party. Eric Garris reports:
Last night, CP founder Howard Phillips strongly denounced [Alan] Keyes as a warmonger, neocon, and egomaniac. Phillips was subsequently attacked by Jim Clymer, the CP national chairman.
In spite of Keyes bringing in a lot of delegates, the CP remained true to their anti-interventionist views and rejected Keyes.
The nomination instead went to the antiwar conservative Chuck Baldwin, by a vote of 383.8 to 125.7. It’s a small but satisfying victory for two noble though possibly lost causes: the movement to end the occupation of Iraq and the transideological coalition to get Alan Keyes to shut up.
I pointed out a while back that the California affiliate of the Constitution Party is the old American Independent Party, a group formed as a political vehicle for the segregationist George Wallace. Jim Antle of The American Spectator, who has done the best reporting I’ve seen on the CP race, tells me that the California delegation backed Keyes, a black man — while the party’s two black state chairs were Keyes’ leading opponents. It’s a complicated world, innit?
When Illinois Review and I agree, it’s truly transideological.
April 29th, 2008 at
Don’t be surprised if a member of the Keyes campaign comes by and lays a broadside.
April 29th, 2008 at
He still has campaigners? Even Eaton walked away from the conservative cowboy.
(Bring back the hat pic, Arch!)
January 22nd, 2009 at
The Constitution Party is right on. California needs the Constitution Party.