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Constitution Party - Revenge of the Nuts
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Mar 29, 2004 06:05pm |
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| News Date | Monday, March 29, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Constitution Party - Revenge of the Nuts
The Cleveland Scene
The Constitution Party wants to abolish welfare and immigration, kick the U.N. out of America, and ban the federal government from meddling in education. Its presumptive presidential candidate, Michael Peroutka, refers to gays as "sodomites." Its official platform reads as if it were written in 1830. None of this has stopped liberals from gleefully cheering the party on. They see the Constitution Party as this year's Ralph Nader, a hardcore Christian movement that may siphon votes from President Bush and throw the election to John Kerry.
The theory largely centers on Roy Moore, the Alabama Supreme Court justice who was famously fired for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse. Moore, who's been speaking at Constitution Party gatherings around the country, has the kind of Christian cachet that could unite the hard right into a legitimate third party. Or so the logic goes.
"I think the Republican Party takes principled conservatives for granted," Patrick Johnston, leader of the Ohio Constitution Party, says before seeing the next patient at his family practice outside Columbus. "They can either return to the right, or we'll take the flock away from them. Bush has been worse than any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson, so why vote for him?" Johnston reasons. "I think if Kerry got elected, our nation would be much better off, because conservatives in Congress would fight him." |
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