Constitutional Party Declares Presidential and Vice Presidential Nominees

By Nathan Tinkey

Michael Peroutka, the leading Presidential Candidate for the Constitution Party, has recently made public the addition of Mr. Chuck Baldwin to the Constitution Party ticket in the upcoming November elections. Peroutka and Baldwin are expected to easily secure their Party’s presidential nomination at its June convention.

Mr. Baldwin is the outspoken host of the syndicated radio show “Chuck Baldwin Live” and is well known for his contempt for the Republican Party and its increasingly liberal-moderate stance. While by no means is the Constitution Party expected to win the November election, the energetic and rabidly conservative campaigning efforts of Peroutka and Baldwin are expected to rally behind those conservatives who are disloyal to the Republicans or who would not otherwise vote.

Both the Constitution Party, and its more radical Third Party conservative rival, the Libertarian Party, are poised to capitalize on the growing split within the Republicans this November election. Strong conservative disapproval with Republican compromises, concessions, and defeats are rapidly disenchanting Re 1000 publican voters. What is seen as lost or corrupted ground on hot topic issues like immigration, abortion, the welfare state, the Patriot Act and the war on terror are driving Republicans away from their party, into either apathy or into the arms of radically conservative Third Parties.

Many Republicans are aware of the similar circumstances surrounding the Gore-Nader voter feud and the disastrous implications for the Republican Party should a similar Third Party defection take place within Republican ranks. The evolution of the GOP from conservative into an economically moderate/liberal and politically fundamentalist organization, however, has begun to disgust conservatives to the point where the idea of a Republican president is almost as bad as a Democrat.

While the efforts of the Third Party movements on both sides of the political spectrum are not expected to significantly alter the results of the election, the steady trickle of defection, well established among the liberal/socialist bloc is now becoming a trend also among conservatives. While the Democrats appear to be far more concerned with this than their Republican rivals, the difference of a few thousand votes here and there will undoubtdly make a world of difference this election.