by Bob Haran – Chairman, Constitution Party of Arizona
Via IPR facebook
Almost every time I meet a Republican who knew me as a GOP party stalwart, I’m asked, Bob, “why did you leave the Republican Party.” My very short answer is, “the Republican Party stands for nothing except winning elections at all cost.”
Winning an election is easy if you have the resources and a attractive candidate who is willing to put politics before principle.
The secret formula for a successful political campaign is easy, just find out what the people want to hear and then tell the people what they want to hear. Modern polling and data analysis has made it possible to not only tell the majority what they want to hear but to tell the individual voter what they want to hear. You can tell the pro-life voter you believe in the sanctity of life and their pro-choice neighbor that you believe in a woman’s right to control her own body and get both their votes.
Getting the resources to win an election is not that hard either, just approach those with the money to finance a campaign, such as lobbyist and business interest political action committees, (PAC’s), let them know you are running and you would like their advice on issues affecting their respective industries, then ask for a contribution, and you will have your resources to tell the voters what they want to hear via very slick advertising. The Republican Party, because they stand for nothing, have becomes masters of this method of winning elections.
The problem with the GOP as a political party is that it is not run like a political party, with power coming from the grassroots up, but more like a corporation with power coming from the stock holders, the special business interests making the big contributions, down. The Republican National Committee goes so far as to issue “talking points,” or directives, to the party faithful, telling them to change positions on certain issues, like immigration, to do what is in the parties best interest in order to win.
In reality, the GOP is nothing more then a giant public relations firm carrying out the will of their big money customers, they really should be called GOP Inc, and their symbol should be “$.”
Now you know why I had to leave the Republican Party and joined the Constitution Party, a party of the people that puts God and country before party and politics, a real political party representing the American people with power coming from the grassroots up and not the other way around. Our ideology is easy to understand, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, a real political party that doesn’t sacrifice it’s principles for political expediency.
Now I have a question for my patriotic friends in the Republican Party, why are you still supporting GOP Inc?
For God and country…
Enough bad apples and you get a rotten barrel.
Bob, I understand about the bad apples in the CP, but the problem is that there are too many of them in your party.
Plus, along with how the upper CP hierarchy functions- there is no way I’m ever going to come back to them.
Now, while there are many outstanding individuals & state affiliates in the CP, the national organization still behaves in the same manner as the GOP in its internal functions.
True, and they have also been rather consistent warmongers for that whole century and a half plus.
Bob at 9:56pm wrote:
>…the Republican Party no longer represents the average American.
I cannot think of any time in the last 160 years that the Republican Party ever represented the average American. Its first elected President was a mercantilist, racist, violator of the 4th Amendment and habeas corpus and caused this country to fight its deadliest war. He was, however, a great speechwriter so he talked the talk.
Since then, the Republican Party has consistently represented big government, centralized authority and massive borrowing. Its position on matters of personal choice, which is none of their business, is appalling.
Yeah, that guy sounds like a fruit loop also…
My apologies, I meant Don Stone- one of the Illinois CP leaders.
Was he not on your group’s exec comm? I am counting you all as the pro-Keyes faction for lack of a better name for it, as opposed to the faction aligned with the Constitution Party.
It is news to me that Lake sided with Keyes. Paulie what is your source that Lake sided with Dr. Keyes?
Hood is the Wisconsin CP chairman, Grundmann is a CA activist who at one time claimed to be chair of CA (not sure whether that was ever true or not as there seemed to be conflicting claims) and Lake was never in the CP…he was on the board of the AIP faction that sided with Keyes and had a bitter rivalry with the CP.
I have no idea who Hood, Lake and Grundmann are or what Cody Quirk is writing about. There will be those in any large group we will disagree with, but one can’t judge a whole political party by the actions or words of a few of their members. My article is an attempt to point out to friends still in the GOP, and there are some good people still in the GOP, that the Republican Party no longer represents the average American.
Lake is (was? I don’t know if he is alive anymore) not a CPer. As for the others they don’t sacrifice their principles. The problem is that their principles are screwed up.
“Now you know why I had to leave the Republican Party and joined the Constitution Party, a party of the people that puts God and country before party and politics,”
Unfortunately some of the extremist persuasion in the CP put religion and division ahead of God and country. Riley Hood is a good example of that.
“a real political party representing the American people with power coming from the grassroots up and not the other way around.”
Oh really?
http://hammeroftruth.com/2013/as-an-independent-american/
“Our ideology is easy to understand, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, a real political party that doesn’t sacrifice it’s principles for political expediency.”
According to CP’ers like Riley Hood, Don Lake, Don Grundmann, and others- that statement doesn’t seem accurate.