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Only made funnier in that the Constitution Party probably isn’t a big fan of publicly funded libraries.

For those waiting on the Lauzen whack, why would I do that? It only hurts Republicans to divide their party further–more power to him.

Given the Review’s doting on Bush, it’s a bit hard to figure they’d have anything to do with the Constitution Party which rejected Alan Keyes for:

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

Fun story about the Constitution Party. When they had their 1999 Convention in Saint Louis I ended up riding Metrolink with a bunch of them.  They didn’t appear to understand the contradiction.