Posted under Alan Keyes & Chuck Baldwin & Constitution Party
The AIP of California is the Constitution Party affiliate. Briefly, the ex(?)- State Chairman, Ed Noonan, has announced that the party is disaffiliating from the CP and affiliating with Alan Keyes’ fledgling party, America’s Independent Party. (Note the possessive, but conveniently still with the AIP initials.) Other forces in the California AIP dispute this and claim Noonan is just disgruntled and acting alone. This is too tedious to detail at length here so I will provide some links. Third Party Watch is covering the story.
See here, and please read the response from Gary Odom for the other side of the story. Also see here, here, and here.
My question is how much of this is the crazed doings of Ed Noonan and how much is actively being encouraged by Keyes and his supporters, particularly Tom Hoefling? It is being trumpeted on the Keyes’ website. If they are encouraging this, which I highly suspect, then what a bunch of sore losers. Keyes was beaten fair and square because the vast majority of the CP convention delegates didn’t support Keyes’ interventionist foreign policy. Why can’t they just accept that?
This is bound to go to court. California seems to have some rather arcane election laws regarding parties.
Patroon on 30 Jun 2008 at 8:50 pm #
Remember, with Keyes its “I run, therefore I am.” Without a major party line he needs something to make it look like he’s still an active politico.
That being said, I hope this doesn’t go to court, that’s the last thing the CP needs this election year.
RedPhillips on 30 Jun 2008 at 9:00 pm #
Would somebody, somewhere please give Keyes a job! Then he can quit running for office as his profession.
Patroon on 30 Jun 2008 at 10:21 pm #
And what would you suggest Red? I would say voice-overs but he’s too loud and excitable. I’m still thinking.
Perhaps our readership can help find Alan Keyes a real job so he won’t feel to break Harold Stassen’s record for presidential runs.
RedPhillips on 30 Jun 2008 at 11:49 pm #
I think he should teach others the fine art of feigned righteous indignation, a skill he has perfected. Righteous indignation can come in handy at times. Surely someone would be willing to pay for the training.
roho on 01 Jul 2008 at 12:12 am #
The “Conservative Jessie Jackson” of politics?……………Please go home and get a job!
levotb on 01 Jul 2008 at 2:18 am #
For a carpetbagger, Keyes sure has some cojones to pull this stunt. I feel bad for Chuck Baldwin and The CP. As it is, they’re the Rodney Dangerfield Party, not getting no respect from ANY quarter. Baldwin is in need of cash. He isn’t exactly burning down barn doors with his appearances. I have not been impressed with the size of crowds he’s getting.
A lot of things are hurting the third party movement now when it should be growing and strong (if not united) given the awful RINO and Demo alternatives–gas prices affecting the cost of everything especially food, loss in home values, the stock market collapse, businesses failing (something the MNM isn’t reporting but is surely happening), the massive floods in the Midwest and the horrific ‘infernos” in CA affecting our air. I can’t even go out for a walk because of the dangerous particulates in the air here and they tell us these fires could go on for months! Point being, there’s enough going on to make it difficult to give to such a campaign, even though my heart is behind the effort. Just trying to stay in business is a monumental effort unto itself.
Truth Teller on 03 Jul 2008 at 3:51 pm #
You should know that Ed Noonan’s major issue is that he is an infidel enemy of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. In other words, he is a Mormon. He is angry at Baldwin because Baldwin voted to disaffiliate the Nevada affiliate for their gross deviation from the national platform. Noonan considered this an anti-Mormon vote.