Largest 3rd Party Presidential Candidate To Challenge “Big Box” Parties

Kansas City, Mo. (April 26,2008) The Constitution Party chose a presidential candidate at a nominating convention held this weekend in Kansas City, MO. Former Constitution Party Vice Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin was chosen by delegates from state affiliates of the third largest federally-recognized political party, based on voter registrations (http://www.ballot-access.org).

Baldwin, a pastor, writer and conservative talk show host won the nomination from a field of eight prospective nominees, including former U.N. Ambassador and Asst. Secretary of State in the Reagan administration, Dr. Alan Keyes.

Baldwin, who founded the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, addressed the Constitution Party delegates in a passionate speech that outlined his concern that elected officials from both the Republican and Democrat parties had abandoned the principles of limited government.

Baldwin decried “the bi-partisan complicity that has allowed the illegal, immoral, unconstitutional war that has resulted in the slaughter of four thousand American soldiers and untold innocent Iraqis”. Baldwin went on to point out “If elected, I will end the lunacy that sends Americans abroad to guard the borders of Iraq, while leaving our borders wide open, inviting illegals to plunder the wealth and good will of American citizens”. Baldwin’s remarks were interrupted by a number of thunderous standing ovations making it clear his message resonated with the party faithful.

Chuck Baldwin, a Constitution Party member for a number of years, promised, that if elected he would work to protect the lives of the unborn, abolish the IRS and the Federal Reserve, support home schooling, and “eviscerate” vast numbers of unconstitutional federal programs like the Department of Energy (“we have more than enough oil in Alaska”) and Social Security (“which is nothing more than socialism”). Baldwin promised to get “the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.”, to abolish the department of Homeland Security and to end foreign aid.

Constitution Party delegates chose Baldwin over Dr. Alan Keyes, by a vote of 384 to 126.

“Alan Keyes is a principled and remarkably gifted statesman, and we hope he chooses to join the Constitution Party and support our efforts; however, when all was said and done, the delegates were apparently persuaded that Chuck Baldwin was more aligned with our party’s platform especially on issues like the U.N., the Iraq war and foreign aid”, commented Constitution Party National Committee Chairman Jim Clymer.

Chuck Baldwin said his Washington “outsider” status would likely be considered a plus in this election, saying many “dissatisfied Americans have come to view political insiders as carriers of ‘big government disease’ ”. Baldwin vowed to honor his oath to uphold the Constitution. He acknowledged that the Christian principles of our Founding documents guaranteed liberty for people of all creeds, and “pledge(d) to cultivate a climate in D.C. which reins in government and reminds those in power they are bound by limits set in place by our Constitution.

Well, he scored a +1 in my book by saying that the two parties were essentially the same thing.

Sounds "GOOD" to me ! Where are contributions to be sent ? Does he have a POTUS campaign website yet ? What is the web address for the CP ?

Also, how can the Party allow anyone not a member to be nominated for any office, much less the highest in the land ?!? If Keyes was too CHEAP to pay a membership fee, he shouldn't have been allowed in the convention !!! THX for any help to my ??? !

EndTheEmpire,

Here is the website for the national party:
http://www.constitutionparty.com

I believe the "Official" campaign website is still in the works. Hopefully it's up soon. Can't start actively campaigning for him until I have some place where I can point people. ChuckBaldwinLive.com just doesn't cut it.

Shhhh..Don't tell anyone, but they have the new domain online, the new Web site should be coming in the near future: http://www.baldwin2008.com/

I 'm working on getting a chipin box set up here that will go directly to the campaign. I'm just waiting for them to finalize it on their end.

However, if any of you out there have graphic ability and could make some ads to be placed in newspapers or magazines we could start our own chipin to raise enough money to get the ad placed.

But we need the ads created first so people can see what they are chipping in for.

I'm thinking ads placed in Homeschooling magazines and Christian publications or even big city newspapers.

Ray

Raymond,

You should create a seperate forum for "Advertisements" or "Special projects".

I think talk radio-ads and ads in Christian/homeschooling newspapers should be first and foremost.

Will that work?

Ray

Looks excellent. Great job.

Ray--you should try to make a few other websites too. one of the things that made the Ron Paul netroots so successful was having lots of cross-linked websites with different focuses.

Well see, my time is also tied up with my state party as well. But I think thats where the bloggers come in. They can write about the different issues that concern our country and then tie the Baldwin campaign into it. Then they can link to the official campaign website to find out more info and hopefully donate and to sites like this one to get them involved in the grass roots.

I will also be creating a 'Chuck on the issues" forum here soon so we can outline Chucks positions.