From Gary Odom:
The National Committee of the Constitution Party, meeting in Harrisburg, PA, has, by unanimous resolution, adopted on April 30, 2011, put itself on record urging former Virginia Congressman, Virgil Goode, to seek the Presidential nomination of the Constitution Party!
Immediately upon conclusion of Virgil Goode’s speech; one in which he extolled the virtues of protecting America’s national sovereignty, condemned foreign aid and demanded the the United States start taking care of America’s problem first instead of meddling in the affairs of the rest of the world, providing a rousing climax to the 2011 Spring National Committee of the Constitution Party; a motion from the floor was made, urging Goode to seek the Constitution Party’s Presidential nomination. Th motion was quickly seconded and was passed unanimously by the party’s national committee.
(The full text will be available in a later edition)
This resolution should not be confused with a nomination (which can only be made by the national convention–the highest authority of the national party) nor even an outright endorsement, however it can certainly be viewed as a statement of deep appreciation for Virgil Goode’s activities in the Constitution Party over the past two years and may equally be viewed as a clear statement that the National Committee views Virgil Goode as an excellent choice to be the Constitution Party nominee for President of the United States and for that reason strongly encourages him to seek its nomination.
Goode has made it clear to members in private and public comments at the meeting and prior thereto that he has a strong interest in seeking the party’s nomination, though he has made no public announcement to that effect as of yet. Many Constitution Party leaders are hopeful that Goode has a strong campaign well underway by the time of the Constitution Party National Convention in mid-April of 2012, and it was hoped that this resolution would encourage him to take the steps necessary to become a full fledged candidate.
Correcting Kevin // May 19, 2011:
zero = US Presidents, including Obama, My Yokohama Momma and the Bush League twins
lethal blow[s] = Bin Laden / national debt / Trillion Dollar house to house quagemire in the Mid East [as predicted since Viet Nam and shouted from the roof tops since Gulf War I] / The 1960s / 1970s HATE of the world, well deserved, as we put on ear muffs adjust blinders and RAN into the mine field!
Proof positive, give it a couple of decades, we blew it, and the other guy won / will win!
six, don lake
whoa bumble bee brain, you are the california chair of the Constitution Party, AND a candidate for the California American Independent Party ??????????
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
You are tall AND short, fat AND skinny ??????
” I mostly post stuff from Noonan’s private email to me. I admire and respect him and his history.”
Response – This is totally understandable as Noonan is an ultracorrupt liar, coward, and traitor. So of course YOU would be one of the 5 other liars, cowards, and traitors who admire and respect him. All other liars, cowards, and traitors – his natural constituency – simply don’t yet know that he is to be found in their outhouse where they can easily find him by looking down the hole. His moral and literal criminality is documented at TheCorruptionOfAlanKeys.blogspot.com.
Don J. Grundmann, D.C. Chairman American Independent Party, California branch of the Constitution Party
Bottomline: Obama was born a British subject in Kenya before his Indonesian adoption. He was never a ‘natural-born Citizen’ and is therefore illegally in The Whitehouse.
Impeach the usurper now!
Mister Red, I believe Lt Col is originally from the Carolinas and is possibly a distant relative of mine.
California’s American Independent Party long timer Ed Noonan is a west coast proponent.
I am not a birther on John McCain or Obama, my Yokohama Moma. I do consider both political thugs! And do not have much of a positive feeling toward Palin or Biden.
I mostly post stuff from Noonan’s private email to me. I admire and respect him and his history.
what god ???????????????
what Christianity ?????????????
Doctor Donald J. Grunmann, in the art world he exercising ‘pointalism’ with a three inch brush ………
1 = US President/ Our Country
0 = Bin Laden/ Birthers/ Trump/ Huckabee
The “TRUTH will set you free”, you are free now, move along nothing to see here just more GOP lies!
Montana – You are a very sick dude though, unfortunately, as common as sand. I say this because of the indentifying clue which you leave – your nitwit usage of the word ” hate.”
Opposition to Obama may indeed come from a small minority ( less than .01% at the most ) in regard to his race. The vast majority ( 99.9%+ ) comes from A) his policies, and B) ( especially ) his character. I suggest that you learn, if you have the intellectual courage ( which I severely doubt ) about ” The Negro Project.” Barack Obama is its greatest creation. He is a total supporter of the greatest enemy of his own community – Planned Parenthood. Go to BLACKGENOCIDE.ORG for the evidence. He is a lackey/water carrier/house negro/Uncle Tom of the controllers of our nation; those who are the engine of population control and Planned Parenthood. He is a betrayer of our nation and of his own people. He is an enemy of humanity.
Your splashy usage of the word ” hate ” in regard to any opposition to Obama is a symptom of those who are A) anti-God, B) anti-Christian, and ( especially ) those who are intellectually unable to address opposition to Obama ( or anything else ) and instead resort to a standardized smear ( racist, sexist, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc., yada, yada over and over ) to cover up for your intellectual bankruptcy; i.e.; stupidity.
Lastly, Planned Parenthood has killed literally millions ( and still counting ) of blacks; many orders of magnitude more than ” people wearing white sheets ” have ever killed and no doubt could ever dream of killing or even be capable of killing. If you support Planned Parenthood in any way it is YOU who are, in fact, the racist in this discussion.
” your growth is stunted in your hate ” of God.
Don J. Grundmann, D.C. Chairman American Independent Party, California branch of the Constitution Party
Obama, My Yokohoma Momma, Term II. Ugh, pass the aspirin!
Dishonorable discharge Terry Lakin, is a fool, who needs him!
Our president had already showed his US birth Certificate to;
1. Get a US Passport; http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/03/20/obamas_passport_files_hacked/
2. Become a US Senator;
I feel sorry for all the little Birthers, It’s not their fault; it’s your families’ fault that taught you that you were better than other people based on race, creed ethnicity, color, nationality or sex, in short they engrained in you their hate (what a legacy).
But you know at some point you need to grow up and act like an adult and think for yourself and distinguish what is true and what is BS.
But there is where the little Birthers find yourself because we all know it was never about a birth certificate or grades, because we all know you want to go around wearing white sheets, burn crosses and hang people who are not like you, we know that your growth is stunted in your hate, and hate is what this is all about, you will never win anymore, and I feel sorry for all of you.
I can only imagine when our President is re-elected what you phonies will lie about next. Oh, and just know, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it’s a duck, the little Birthers are a bunch of racists!
The CP has plenty of options. It doesnt need Lakin or Duke.
To me, I’d say the contenders this year will be Goode or Moore, or perhaps some combination thereof.
Don, do you happen to know if Lakin is even an ideological conservative or are people just projecting onto him?
did not transfer, ‘devvy.com’
“LTC Lakin’s numerous awards and decorations include the Army Flight Surgeon Badge, Combat Medical Badge, the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with one Oak Leaf Clusters, the National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, the Armed Forces Expedition Medal, the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon sixth award and the NATO service medal.
“For well over a year, LTC Lakin has asked through his chain of command and his Congressional delegation for proof that President Obama is Constitutionally eligible to serve as his Commander-in-Chief.
He has explained to his superiors that he cannot understand how his Oath of Office to protect and defend the Constitution does not allow military officers to pursue this proof of eligibility.
“LTC Lakin received military orders in late February for deployment to Afghanistan, including a requirement that he provide “copies of his birth certificate.” [1]
Last December, that honorable man who faithfully served this country for 18 years lost his freedom.
Why? Because the putative president simply refused to produce his long form birth certificate.
Special Agent // May 7, 2011:
“………. Lt. Col. Terry Lakin would be a good VP nominee ……………”
California AIP’s Ed Noonan acts as if he is the unofficial Lakin PR guy. Lakin / Lakey is a distant relative of mine. Die hard ‘birther’!
Speaking of Opeach Obama, the window for Opeachment is inching closed ——– possibly nailed shut with ‘Commander In Chief’ of SEALS Force Six bull shit.
[For an even handed non partisan whom is not playing the party card ———— he is not!]
HumbleTravis, I don’t know if anyone has contacted Charlie Duke.
Re. PCR, in 2008 when some of us were desperately seeking a candidate to head off Keyes, I actually brought up PCR, but don’t know if that idea ever got beyond my own room. I recall discussing the pros and cons of a PCR candidacy but can’t remember the venue, TPW perhaps. Perhaps privately with Trent.
PCRs columns could get rather intemperate at times which would be a liability, but he comes off as much more toned down in person. I don’t think he has changed his basic views, but for whatever reason he has increasingly associated himself with leftists of a certain sort, like the CounterPunch crowd. This too could be a liability.
He also endorsed single payer health care, but it didn’t seem like it was because he thought this was ideal. It seemed more like he was throwing up his hands declaring the current system unfixable and any possible “solutions” too likely to dictated by big insurance and big pharma to do any good.
His economic stuff has become increasingly populist and hostile to big business, a sentiment I think the CP could exploit, but I’m not sure PCR is a consitutionalist at this point. He may be too much of a hard nosed realist to be a constitutionalist.
BTW, PCR was listed as one of the potential candidates of the Citizens Party that were listed here a couple of weeks ago, but that could have been people just throwing out names. It doesn’t mean PCR has expressed interest.
@ George Phillies
Sure Obama would view splitting the Republican vote as a positive. This gets at what you believe the role of a third party to be. One role of a third party is to punish the major party closest to you for being insuficiently faithful in the hopes that, sufficiently chastised, they won’t do it again. One consequence of this strategy is that it, temporarily at least, helps the major party farthest from you. This is why getting conservatives to vote third party to punish the GOP is such a hard sell.
“Birthers,” who are frustrated with having their concerns brushed off by both major parties and the MSM represent a potential pool of voters frustrated enough with the GOP that they would be willing to cast a punishment third party vote.
@21 Corsi could…
Wouldn’t Obama view splitting the Republican vote in halves to be a positive?
DLS, Corsi would have some explaining to do on foreign policy, particularly his obsession with Iran, but Corsi could potentially reach people other CP candidates can’t.
Corsi’s upcoming Obama book has already hit #1 on Amazon after Drudge linked to it, and many have speculated that Corsi’s book hitting #1 was one of the things (in addition to Donald Trump of course) that caused Obama to realease his alleged long form bc.
Corsi could conceivably collect the votes of “birthers” and WND readers who would not normally vote third party, particularly if his upcoming book makes a strong case and the GOP nominee brushes off the issue.
I don’t understand the love for Judge Moore or Corsi. Judge Moore ran “again” for AL Gov in ’10 in the RP. It was an open seat. He finished fifth ! NO mass appeal to voters!
I was in the dollar store a few weeks back and Jerome Corsi’s 2009 book was there $1 a piece. Which might be good to spread the books message, but doesn’t speak well to his appeal to America. He is good on most points, but he does have a slight speech impediment which just doesn’t work for politicians.
I too don’t agree with this committee jumping the gun like this, however Goode would be the “biggest” name of anyone so far that I’ve heard mentioned! With that said, I doubt if 90 % of US citizens have ever heard of Virgil Goode. Hence he needs to enter the RP primary race to build his national name ID and build a national following. Play to WIN if you play the game !
DJ, I know you were probably trying to be funny, but, Lakin would actually only make sense if the presidential nominee was not Corsi.
Goode isn’t terrible. He was my Congressman when I lived in Virginia and I actually voted for him against Periello (the Democratic challenger). I wouldn’t have voted for him if there were any third party challengers, but it was just those two. He was part of the Republican Liberty Caucus, so he is definitely more libertarian than many of his Republican colleagues, but he is NO Ron Paul. He was very supportive of many of the Bush era programs and wars. He is imperfect and choosing him as the Constitution Party candidate is like Bob Barr for the Libertarian Party. Both are decent people, but are unfit for the nomination because of their comprises on liberty.
RE: Lakin for VP – sounds like a rumor started by Jerome Corsi. … Corsi/Lakin, now “that’s the ticket”… if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.
I heard speculation that Lt. Col. Terry Lakin would be a good VP nominee. Anyone else heard this rumor?
I asked about this in March but nobody responded: Has anybody from the Constitution Party ever tried to contact Paul Craig Roberts or former Colorado State Senator Charlie Duke to run for anything?
“In 2008 didn’t the anti-Keyes folks protest what seemed to be Keyes friendly mailings and e-mails from party central?”
If they did, they don’t understand how a third party attracts big names. The party needs to be able to trumpet big names like this in order to keep the interest (and get the donations from) its members. This time around, it’ll likely be Goode and Moore.
@ Red Moore is good but he is seeking the republican nomination. If he has his name even on one primary ballot then he could not turn around and seek our nomination. Some states wont allow it via the law. I highly doubt corsi would run for office.
Looking for the next Perot type independent who can make a difference,
NF, then why are you at Independent Political Report?
What does it really matter, Red? The CP (and the LP and GP) are totally irrelevant.
Am I the only one who is vaguely unconfortable with this? As the article says, I know that this is not an official endorsement, much less a nomination, but it strikes me as at the least giving Goode an unfair advantage over the competition.
Don’t TEA Partiers and other conservatives protest when the Republican Party is seen as favoring a particular candidate in the primary? (Think Greyson vs. Paul in KY or Kirk vs. his competition in IL.) In 2008 didn’t the anti-Keyes folks protest what seemed to be Keyes friendly mailings and e-mails from party central?
If Goode decides to seek the CP nomination in 2012 is it then essentially a foregone conclusion he will win it regardless of who else decides to run? There are other potential “big names” out there – Jerome Corsi, Roy Moore, etc. Can they expect an equal public courting?
This looks to have been spontaneous and not pre-planned, but it strikes me as unwise and unfair in hindsight.
The former, Red. Only National Committee members could vote on the issue.
Committee /= Convention. Fixed.
So Gary, who exactly voted? The National Committee per se which is a limited number of people I assume, or all the people at the meeting as a whole?
Oh… I thought you meant Ventura but now I get the subtle humor. Jeez, you must be really old to remember those commercials!
This was not a “national convention” as the headline suggests, but rather a national committee meeting…as stated in the body of the text. There is quite a significant difference. The national committee is really a ministerial body. The national convention is the highest authority in the party. C’mon now! 🙂 I expect real political junkies to know these things.
Can we take this as a sign that immigration restrictionism now trumps non-interventionism in the Constitution Party?
Mr. Goode needs to take his message into the Republican Primary race. He might receive a nice % of that vote. If and when the RP race fails he needs to continue his quest in the CP race !
We must burst up the R & D’s support if we are to ever break their control. Mr. Goode’s message has some support and should be heard ! It can be heard better nationally in the RP until after the NH Primary.
Constitution Party Speaker – Virgil Goode – Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktnHtYLV90
Constitution Party Speaker – Virgil Goode – Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOTtHAMOdK0&feature=related