Third party candidate for Governor gets 43% of the vote in Colorado. Republican candidate manages 8%.
huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/01/cogov-48-hicken...Posted Nov 3, 2010, 2:49 AM UTC
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The Republican candidate was a Tea Party whack-job who thinks bicycles are a UN plot to take over the world (really - I couldn't make this shit up).
The Republican establishment weren't happy with having their primary hijacked by the Tea Party, so they got their preferred candidate to jump ship and run as a Constitution Party candidate.
No word yet on when the Constitution Party will hijack the Democrat primaries...
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Lot of good it did. Shame we couldn't have had a third party win, just to show it could be done.
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Don't blame me I voted Tancredo. Even convinced my uber liberal wife to do so. Cost me my vote on 101 though darn it
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Whoever voted Republican in CO went full retard this time. Would have been rad to see a CP governor, even if it was Tom One-trick-pony-credo.
This is the CP you support?
The Constitution Party gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States. We hereby appeal to Him for mercy, aid, comfort, guidance and the protection of His Providence as we work to restore and preserve these United States.
Maybe that was not clear, so they followed with this:
"This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been and are afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
"The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries."
See, it is easy. It is not religion, it is Christianity.
Would have been a huge step forward nonetheless, as long as they recognized their boundaries I care not what religion, or lack of, a person chooses. They still recognize freedom of religion, "For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been and are afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
It sure as hell beats the anti-constitutionalists we've had for so many years who have faith to no rights of the individual, but only the wanting masses and the massive wallets.
They're statist authoritarians. Maybe they're slightly less statist than democrats and republicans, but they still insist that they should decide for you who you love, what you wank to, what you do with your womb (if you're female) and what you do with your money.
It would be a huge step backwards in every way. Smaller government and stricter "morality" are both a blast from the past.
They claim to want smaller government but they also want SDI. Are you fucking kidding me? Who has nukes for SDI to protect against?
For a so-called "constitution" party, it's sickening that they're against the first amendment. Likewise, how can they even call themselves Christian while supporting the death penalty?
I guess "CP" stands for Contradiction Party.
So you want to return to the Biblical foundations. And since Christianity is not a religion it can be mixed with the government. All it takes is to re-define terms and you have a perfect constitutional government.
If the choice is between 2% constitutionality (now), or 85%, I'll take 85%. No it's not a constitutional utopia where the federal government isn't wrestling all power from the people, but had we actually followed the constitution thus far I can think of a great many things that we wouldn't be suffering from on a nationwide scale.
Seriously... they scare the shit out of me. Republicans wrap themselves in the flag to hide the Bible, Constitutional Party people wrap themselves in the Constitution to hide the Bible.
Seems to be working.
Hopefully the downvote parade will end... your point is definitely not trolling and it's not inflammatory. For people who love to bitch about r/politics, I have to say that the pot is starting to scream at the kettle.
Touche. What can be done about it though? If libertarians use their limited political efforts to expose such crap, there won't be anything else left with which to attempt to win even county dogcatcher campaigns.
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